ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT200100372

Funding Activity

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https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT200100372

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

The origin of cumulative culture in human evolution. Humans accumulate knowledge and use cumulative culture to transfer it across generations, and identifying the origin of this unique ability is a significant research priority for the study of archaeology and human evolution. This project aims to discover the emergence of cumulative culture by using experiments to evaluate stone tool-making, a technology passed between humans for 3.3 million years. Expected outcomes include international collaborations that improve our evolutionary understanding of teaching and learning, and produce new data on early stone artefacts in Indonesia and Australia. This should provide significant benefits for collaborative research and scholarly insight into human evolution and Indigenous knowledge in our region.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2021

End Date: 31-01-2025

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $998,395.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

Other Keywords

Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society

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