Projektbeschreibung
Das prähistorische Massaker am Turkana-See verstehen
Weltweit sterben täglich etwa 16 000 Menschen an einem Trauma. Kollisionen im Straßenverkehr, Mord und Selbstmord sind die Hauptursachen für traumatische Todesfälle und Verletzungen. War das schon immer so? Das EU-finanzierte Projekt TRAUMOBITA untersucht, wie die traumatische Sterblichkeit unter den prähistorischen Menschen unser Verhalten während des Jungpleistozäns bis zum Mittleren Holozän prägte. Zu verstehen, wie die Menschen starben, ist entscheidend, um die Bedeutung der Gewalt für die Prägung unseres Verhaltens zu bestimmen. Über das Projekt werden menschliche Fossilen vom Turkana-See in Kenia untersucht. Hier griffen sich vor etwa 10 000 Jahren zwei Gruppen von Jägern und Sammlern an. Die Erkenntnisse ermöglichen die Identifizierung und Charakterisierung traumatischer Todesfälle und liefern Erkenntnisse zur Anpassung menschlicher Verhaltensweisen.
Ziel
Traumatic death affects our daily life, but how did traumatic mortality affect human behaviour from an evolutionary perspective? TRAUMOBITA aims to understand how traumatic mortality among prehistoric humans shaped our behaviour during the Late Pleistocene to the Middle Holocene. Confirming that how we died had an enormous influence on our ancestors and represents an enormous change in how we understand human societies. Traumatic mortality has an enormous influence among non-human primate social life and environmental adaptations, but not much effort has been dedicated to the study of how such deaths affected the behavioural development of modern humans. Identifying and understanding how humans died is essential for determining the role of violence in shaping our behaviour and, it seems, an equally important factor among our primate relatives. The goal here is to study these behavioural adaptations on the basis of two analytical sections. The first will comprise analysis of human fossils from different key sites from Lake Turkana (Africa): the region is known as the cradle of humankind and the archaeopaleontological record is an essential one for reconstructing our own evolutionary path. The second will be dedicated to integration of forensic science into taphonomic study of human fossils, in addition to development of new non-invasive methods based on virtual analysis and experimentation. The data obtained from this approach will facilitate identification and characterization of traumatic mortality in the archaeological record, in order to integrate our results into the study of past societies to determine which behavioural changes are related to traumatic mortality. The research is an integrated analysis that guarantees the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the project. Little is known on the role of traumatic mortality in human behavioural adaptations, and therefore the project will represent a major advance.
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