Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más profundo de las respuestas al cambio climático en la Antigüedad
Las medidas de adaptación antiguas ante el aumento de las temperaturas y la escasez de agua podrían servir de inspiración para solucionar la crisis climática actual. En particular, la emergencia de la domesticación de animales en el Levante meridional constituye un buen punto de referencia para estudiar los cambios en las estrategias de subsistencia. El equipo del proyecto ICARHUS, financiado por las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, combinará la arqueología y la biología para investigar los métodos utilizados por las sociedades levantinas antiguas para adaptarse a las presiones climáticas. El proyecto aprovechará el nuevo campo de la paleoproteómica para mejorar las secuencias de referencia de proteínas disponibles, identificar los cambios en las estrategias de subsistencia en los yacimientos arqueológicos jordanos y recopilar información sobre las prácticas de ganadería caprina dependiente del sexo.
Objetivo
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.
Ámbito científico
- 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
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
MSCA-PF - MSCA-PFCoordinador
1165 Kobenhavn
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