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The Archaeology of Agricultural Resilience in Eastern Africa (AAREA)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

"The twin concepts of sustainability and conservation that are so pivotal within current debates regarding economic development and biodiversity protection both contain an inherent temporal dimension, since both refer to the need to balance short-term gains with long-term resource maintenance. Proponents of resilience theory and of development based on ‘indigenous knowledge’ have thus argued for t ...
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LEGumes for the Agriculture of TOmorrow (LEGATO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The project has been conceived to promote the culture of grain legumes in Europe by identifying priority issues currently limiting grain legume cultivation and devising solutions in term of novel varietal development, culture practices, and food uses. LEGATO will develop tools and resources to enable state of the art breeding methodology and to exploit fully the breadth of genetic resources avail ...
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Tracking Elephants: Mapping pre-colonial African ivory trade networks using Bioarchaeological techniques (TEMBo)

Start date: Aug 20, 2014, End date: Aug 19, 2017,

TEMBo will map the flow of ivory from archaeological sites in eastern and southern Africa over the past two millennia by training the researcher in a range of bioarchaeological techniques to identify (ZooMS, FTIR) and source (isotope analysis) archaeological ivory artefacts. This information will significantly improve the understanding of regional interactions between coastal points of export and ...
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Bio-mechanical organisation of the modern human mandible in transition from foraging to agriculture (BioMan)

Start date: Jul 20, 2015, End date: Jul 19, 2017,

It has been well over a century and a half since the evolution of our species was linked to developments in technology made by our immediate ancestors. However, do we actually know how these evolutionary changes in modern humans occur and how our own material culture drives our biological adaptation? This project will explore one of the most prominent examples of culture impacting on our anatomy f ...
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INTERACT: Integrating Archaeological and Climatological Datasets: Investigating Global Human-Environmental Interactions (INTERACT)

Start date: Jan 12, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Climate change has always had a marked impact on human society. In the past it was far more extreme in amplitude if not in rate than that experienced today; unfortunately this experience provides few models for the present and future since the responses of past communities to these changes still remain largely unknown. Major developments in human society since the end of the Last Ice Age are assoc ...
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Indigenous Heritage, Rock Art, and Cultural Identity in Post-colonial Nations (RockArt)

Start date: Apr 25, 2014, End date: Apr 24, 2017,

Archaeological, historical, art historical and ethnographic work has confirmed the importance of rock paintings and engravings as windows onto hunter-gatherer lifeways, some of which have vanished or on the point of extinction. Much of this work however overlooks the fact that rock art – an integral part of visual heritage and indigenous knowledge systems – remains powerfully relevant to what it m ...
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After the Ice: Postglacial hunter-gatherer lifeways (POSTGLACIAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The period of rapid global warming that took place at the end of the last Ice Age in NW Europe must have posed dramatic challenges for hunter-gatherers. This project aims to integrate high-resolution records of palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental change with the remarkable and newly emerging archaeological record of postglacial sites around palaeo-Lake Flixton, (Yorkshire, UK).Star Carr was fir ...
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ADS 3D Viewer: a 3D Real-Time System for the Management and Analysis of Archaeological Data (ADS3DV)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

ADS3DV will focus on the development of a 3D real-time system (3D viewer) for the management and analysis of archaeological data. The aim of this interactive application is not just the visualization of 3D archaeological data, but also the creation of an effective tool for the analysis and interpretation of the archaeological record. Thanks to ADS3DV, in fact, multiple experts will share and analy ...
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Pottery Innovation and Transmission in East Asia: bridging expertise across continents (PONTE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Although pottery is one of humanity’s most important and enduring innovations, understanding exactly how and why pottery first appeared, as well as how, when and where the innovation subsequently spread, remains a central problem in archaeological research. It is also unclear why pottery was innovated at this particular juncture and in East Asia, much earlier than other parts of the world. In 2013 ...
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"Dynamic Landscapes, Coastal Environments and Human Dispersals" (DISPERSE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"We aim to understand the relationship between dynamic changes in physical landscapes and patterns of human dispersal and development in prehistory, paying particular attention to the impact of active tectonics and sea-level change. We will:• Introduce and develop concepts and techniques of tectonic geomorphology and mapping to analyse the relationship between geological instability, complex topog ...
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Local content in a Europeana cloud (LoCloud)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

LoCloud aims to build on the achievements of CARARE in establishing a repository-based aggregator for Archaeological and Architectural heritage and of Europeana Local in its work with local institutions and their regional and national aggregators, which resulted in the contribution to date of well over 5 million items to Europeana.The main goals of LoCloud are: to continue to ease the task of ena ...
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"From the earliest modern humans to the onset of farming (45,000-4,500 BP): the role of climate, life-style, health, migration and selection in shaping European population history" (ADNABIOARC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

"The colonisation of Europe by anatomically modern humans (AMHs) ca. 45,000 years before present (BP) and the transition to farming ca. 8,000 BP are two major events in human prehistory. Both events involved certain cultural and biological adaptations, technological innovations, and behavioural plasticity which are unique to our species. The reconstruction of these processes and the causality betw ...
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Impacts of metallurgy: iron production and the environment in the Pare Mountains, Tanzania (EnvIron)

Start date: Apr 22, 2013, End date: Jul 21, 2015,

The advent of metallurgy was one of the most important transformations in human history, widely considered to have driven political, social, economic and environmental change. The ability to produce metal tools and weapons is said to have instigated shifts in both physical and cultural landscapes, facilitating the expansion of agriculture, encouraging the growth of urban centres, and advancing the ...
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Interred with their bones - linking soil micromorphology and chemistry to unlock the hidden archive of archaeological human burials (INTERARCHIVE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

It is apparent that soils/sediments immediately associated with buried archaeological human remains contain a valuable unexploited archive of archaeological information with physical and chemical signatures. Thus, excavation of human graves, for cultural reconstruction and to understand archaeological burial practices, aspects of human health and for forensic investigations would benefit significa ...
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