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

该项目旨在为肯尼亚著名的奥莫-图尔卡纳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400多万年的人类进化，而盆地沉积物中的互层火山沉积物为我们目前对人类进化时间的限制提供了很多限制。然而，关键的知识差距仍然存在。利用新的仪器和测年方法，该项目将为盆地提供一个超精确的年代框架。这对于在不断变化的气候和环境条件下改变我们对人类进化和迁徙的理解至关重要。

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.