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Influence of Climate variability on the Gravettian cultural Diversity and Evolution

Descripción del proyecto

Sobrevivir a las crisis medioambientales

A lo largo de la historia, la humanidad ha hecho gala de una notable resiliencia gracias a diversos ajustes culturales a las condiciones cambiantes. En la actualidad, los cambios medioambientales sin parangón provocados por el calentamiento global urgen a las sociedades a adaptarse. Teniendo esto en cuenta, en el proyecto ClimDivE, financiado por las acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, se examinará la intrincada relación entre los cambios medioambientales y las adaptaciones culturales a gran escala, prestando especial atención al periodo Gravetiense en Europa occidental y central. Su equipo combinará datos arqueológicos y simulaciones paleoclimáticas a fin de descifrar los factores que subyacen a las distintas trayectorias culturales. La labor a desarrollar en el marco de ClimDivE, que contará con la participación de expertos de renombre y abarcará varios continentes, aportará nuevos conocimientos sobre la interacción entre los factores ambientales, culturales y demográficos que configuraron la evolución en Europa occidental y central durante el Gravetiense.

Objetivo

Currently facing major environmental changes due to global warming, a growing concern of modern societies is related to how we will be able to cope with these rapid changes to survive. This kind of preoccupation is probably not new: over the course of its history, the human species has been able to adapt to very different environmental conditions thanks to diversified cultural adaptations. The objective of the project ClimDivE is to understand the role of environmental change in the diversity and evolution of cultural adaptations at large geographic and chronological scales, using the archaeological record of the Gravettian (32-26 000 years before present) as an example framework. At this period, archaeologists have shown that two neighboring regions, Western and Central Europe, exhibit very different cultural trajectories, without being able to understand the large-scale mechanism that influenced this pattern. The ClimDivE project aims to explore the factors composing this mechanism by integrating archaeological data and paleoclimate simulations into a unified approach: Eco-cultural niche modeling. This approach derived from the field of distributional ecology allows one to identify the environmental conditions associated with specific cultural traits. To do so, Dr. Vignoles will gather pertinent archaeological occurrences and environmental variables for the Central European Gravettian. These data will feed a mathematical model that represents the niche. These results will be compared with her previous work on the Western European Gravettian. Based at Lige with shorter stays in Kansas University and Paris-Saclay, the research will be supervised by three internationally recognized researchers specialized in the Gravettian, ecology and paleoclimatology. The proposal will result in a model underlining different types of factors environmental, cultural, demographical probably implicated in the separate evolution of neighboring regions during the Gravettian.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Coordinador

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 175 920,00
Dirección
PLACE DU 20 AOUT 7
4000 Liege
Bélgica

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Région wallonne Prov. Liège Arr. Liège
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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