The Impact of Water Stress on Early Humans in the Kalahari Desert

水资源压力对喀拉哈里沙漠早期人类的影响

• 批准号: DP220100167
• 负责人: Dr Benjamin Schoville
• 金额: $ 19.21万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-08-12 至 2025-08-11
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP220100167
• 关键词: Impact; Water; Stress; Early; Humans

This project aims to understand the impacts of water stressed environments for early modern human behaviour through state-of-the-art excavation techniques and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction at two new archaeological sites in the Kalahari. How humans mitigated water stress during a major technological transition is significant because adaptability to arid environments was crucial for humans expanding beyond Africa and into Australia. The expected outcome of this project is creation of new knowledge on the origins of human resilience to water stress. The benefit lies in the potential to gain insights into meeting future climate challenges by exploring the adaptive strategies developed by early modern humans in the southern Kalahari.

该项目旨在通过最先进的挖掘技术和在卡拉哈里沙漠的两个新考古遗址的古环境重建，了解水资源紧张环境对早期现代人类行为的影响。在重大技术转型期间，人类如何缓解水资源压力非常重要，因为对干旱环境的适应能力对于人类从非洲扩展到澳大利亚至关重要。该项目的预期成果是创造关于人类对水压力恢复力起源的新知识。其好处在于，通过探索早期现代人在南部喀拉哈里发展的适应策略，有可能获得应对未来气候挑战的见解。