Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100056]
Researchers:
Jessie Birkett-Rees
(Chief Investigator)
,
Justin Adams
(Chief Investigator)
,
Prof Andrew Herries
(Chief Investigator)
,
Renaud Joannes-Boyau
(Chief Investigator)
,
ARC Linkage Grant LP1701000985
(Funded by)
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Brief description Evolving landscapes of our early South African ancestors. This project aims to reconstruct the early evolution of our genus, from 2.6 to 1.8 million years ago. This was a time of faunal and environmental change, the extinction of apelike human ancestors (Australopithecus), the speciation of a specialised human genus, Paranthropus, and the origin of our own genus, Homo. This project will study South African cave sites, the surrounding karst, and the oldest known Homo ergaster fossil to model changing dietary patterns and landscape use by hominins. This project expects to reconstruct the early evolution of our genus and to address how species reacted to changing environmental conditions and increasing aridity.
Funding Amount $328,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100056
- ARC : DP170100056