High resolution timeframe for hominin evolution in the Turkana Basin, Kenya

肯尼亚图尔卡纳盆地古人类进化的高分辨率时间范围

• 批准号: DP180101412
• 负责人: Prof David Phillips
• 金额: $ 28.99万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP180101412
• 关键词: resolution; timeframe; hominin; evolution; Turkana

This project aims to establish a high-resolution timeframe for hominin evolution in the famed Omo-Turkana Basin, Kenya. The Basin hosts a vast array of hominin fossils that cover more than four million years of human evolution, and interbedded volcanic deposits within the Basin sediments has provided much of our current constraints on the timing of hominin evolution. However critical knowledge gaps remain. Using new instrumentation and dating methods, this project will provide an ultra-precise chronological framework for the basin. This is critical for transforming our understanding of hominin evolution and migration, under changing climatic and environmental conditions.

该项目旨在为肯尼亚著名的Omo-Turkana盆地的人类进化建立一个高分辨率的时间框架。该盆地拥有大量的人类化石，涵盖了超过400万年的人类进化，盆地沉积物中的夹层火山沉积物为我们提供了人类进化时间的限制。然而，关键的知识差距仍然存在。利用新的仪器和测年方法，该项目将为该盆地提供一个超精确的年代框架。这对于改变我们对人类在不断变化的气候和环境条件下的进化和迁移的理解至关重要。