Descrizione del progetto
Uno sguardo più attento agli interessanti reperti libanesi del Paleolitico
Recenti studi archeologici, paleoantropologici e genetici hanno riscontrato evidenze che dimostrano uno spostamento geografico dinamico degli ominidi per diversi milioni di anni. Tuttavia, restano poco chiari i dettagli precisi. Per far luce sulla tempistica delle occupazioni e delle migrazioni di ominidi e sugli eventi di dispersione, il progetto REVIVE, finanziato dal CER, studierà gli specifici taxa degli ominidi coinvolti in ognuno di questi eventi e gli effetti di fattori quali la tecnologia, il clima e le interazioni tra le popolazioni ominidi nella loro modellazione. L’attenzione del progetto sarà incentrata sul Levante, il ponte che collega l’Africa al resto del mondo. Si tratterà del primo progetto archeologico/paleoantropologico su larga scala e sistematico mai condotto sulla storia del Paleolitico in Libano.
Obiettivo
Our species evolutionary success story is intriguing. For over a century, we have been trying to formulate a narrative for the evolutionary and migration steps our ancestors took and made us who we are today. Several decades ago, our narrative for our lineage’s dispersals from our place of origin, Africa, across the globe, was based on two separate big waves: one with Homo erectus at ca. 1 million years ago and the second with modern humans 60-50 thousand years ago. However, recent archaeological, paleoanthropological, and genetic evidence has forced us to alter this narrative to one which favors more dynamic geographic movements of hominins over several millions of years. Yet, although we seem to have now framed the overall picture of our narrative, its details remain mostly blurred leaving many chapters unfinished and their events highly debated, particularly those related to the number and timing of the dispersal events, the specific hominin taxa involved in each, and the effects of factors like technology, climate, and interactions among hominin populations, in shaping these events.
As the bridge that connects Africa to the rest of the world, the Levant is an ideal place to look for answers. At its heart is Lebanon, a small country exceptionally rich in Paleolithic archaeological material reminiscent of a dense hominin occupation spanning the entirety of this period. Yet, Lebanon’s rich Paleolithic record remains undiscovered and its potential is mostly forgotten since Paleolithic archaeological exploration in the country was forcefully stopped in its early infancy by the outbreak of the civil war (1975). REVIVE, a highly ambitious, groundbreaking project, will form the first ever large-scale and systematic archaeological/paleoanthropological project to be conducted on Lebanon’s Paleolithic. It will, finally after 45 years, revive Paleolithic research in the country and use its wealthy record to start filling in the gaps in our ancestors’ dispersals narrative.
Campo scientifico
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP.
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantIstituzione ospitante
72074 Tuebingen
Germania