Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210101913

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP210101913

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Constructing robust climate proxies to explore human and primate evolution. This project will build the requisite foundation to resolve whether variable climate change sparked the origins of humans and our great ape forebears. Scientists endeavor to recover ancient environmental records to examine this influential idea, but have lacked the means to do so at the scale of a human lifespan. This multidisciplinary effort will harness groundbreaking advances pioneered by our collaborative team to produce the first fine-scaled climate proxies from the teeth of humans’ closest living relatives. Documenting climate variation across diverse landscapes promises to transform studies of prehistoric ecosystems and past behaviour from omnipresent fossilised teeth, providing further insight into humanity’s unprecedented success.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 29-03-2021

End Date: 28-03-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $343,086.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeological Science | Anthropology | Biological (Physical) Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Workforce Transition and Employment | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Archaeological Science | Biological (Physical) Anthropology | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Workforce Transition and Employment

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