The Drumbeat of Human Evolution: Climate Proxies from Rockshelter Sediments

人类进化的鼓点：岩石庇护所沉积物的气候指标

• 批准号: DE160100703
• 负责人: A/Prof Ian Moffat
• 金额: $ 24.28万
• 依托单位: Flinders University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-06-06 至 2020-12-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE160100703
• 关键词: Drumbeat; Human; Evolution; Climate; Proxies

This project aims to trial new techniques for extracting environmental information from the sediments contained within archaeological rock shelters. Homo sapiens evolved during a period of dramatic climate variation, which almost certainly influenced human development and global dispersal. High-resolution climate records are rarely available for Pleistocene archaeological sites and so it is challenging to quantify the degree of behavioural response to environmental change. This project aims to apply novel geophysical and geochemical techniques to provide new climate records for Indonesia and South Africa, facilitate correlation with other climate archives and thus create a means of directly evaluating the degree of environmental influence on human behavioural evolution.

该项目旨在试验从考古岩石掩体内的沉积物中提取环境信息的新技术。智人是在一个气候剧烈变化的时期进化的，这几乎肯定会影响人类的发展和全球扩散。更新世考古遗址很少有高分辨率的气候记录，因此量化行为对环境变化的反应程度具有挑战性。该项目旨在应用新的地球物理和地球化学技术，为印度尼西亚和南非提供新的气候记录，促进与其他气候档案的关联，从而创造一种直接评估环境对人类行为演变影响程度的手段。