Projektbeschreibung
Die Reaktionen auf den Klimawandel in der Antike unter der Lupe
Die Anpassungen der Menschen in der Antike an steigende Temperaturen und Wasserknappheit könnten eine wichtige Inspirationsquelle für die Lösung der heutigen Klimakrise sein. Insbesondere das Aufkommen der Domestizierung von Tieren in der südlichen Levante ist ein guter Bezugspunkt für die Untersuchung des Wandels der Subsistenzstrategien. Das im Rahmen der Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Maßnahmen finanzierte Projekt ICARHUS verbindet Archäologie und Biowissenschaften, um die Anpassung vergangener levantinischer Gesellschaften an klimatische Einflüsse zu untersuchen. Das Projekt bedient sich des neuen Gebiets der Paläoproteomik, um die verfügbaren Proteinreferenzsequenzen zu erweitern, Veränderungen in der Subsistenzstrategie an vier archäologischen Stätten in Jordanien zu identifizieren und Informationen über geschlechtsspezifische Haltungsformen bei Ziegenherden zu gewinnen.
Ziel
Facing the constraints imposed due to climate change is a challenge past human societies had to take into consideration, similar to how current societies are facing global changes in resource availability and climate change. By looking into the past and how ancient societies adapted to temperature increase and water availability decrease could help us to innovatively deal with the current climate crisis. In the Levant, where cattle, pigs, sheep and goat have been domesticated, ecological constraints are one of the major reasons for observed changes in subsistence strategies. Traditionally, comparative anatomy of fauna remains is the methodology of choice when aiming to reconstruct past subsistence strategies. But in arid environments, archaeological bones and teeth degrades rapidly, leading to highly fragmented and poorly preserved remains, thus largely restricting faunal spectra reconstruction. This project offers a glimpse at past Levantine societies adaptation to climatic pressures by using the new and exciting field of palaeoproteomics. The fellowship will concentrate on three defined scientific objectives: 1. enhance the available protein reference sequences, crucially lacking Near-Eastern wild ungulates species; 2. identify subsistence strategy shifts along four Jordanian archaeological sites, each containing well-established stratigraphies, using ancient proteins based species identification; and 3. recover information regarding sex-driven husbandry practices in caprine herds using the new method of enamel proteome sexing. The combination of archaeology and biological sciences within the frame of ICARHUS will give the opportunity to get a glimpse into past human societies agro-cultural behaviour using methodological developments of use beyond the field of bio-archaeological sciences.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsproteomics
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineanatomy and morphology
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyarchaeologyethnoarchaeology
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Programm/Programme
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
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