Description du projet DEENESFRITPL Étude du massacre préhistorique du lac Turkana Environ 16 000 personnes meurent chaque jour dans le monde des suites de lésions traumatiques. Les accidents de la route, les meurtres et les suicides sont les principales causes de décès et de lésions traumatiques. Cela a-t-il toujours été le cas? Le projet TRAUMOBITA, financé par l’UE, étudiera comment la mortalité traumatique chez les humains préhistoriques a façonné notre comportement du Pléistocène tardif à l’Holocène moyen. Comprendre la manière dont les humains sont morts est essentiel pour préciser le rôle qu’a joué la violence dans la formation de notre comportement. Le projet étudiera les fossiles humains du lac Turkana au Kenya. Il s’agit de l’endroit où des groupes de chasseurs-cueilleurs se sont affrontés il y a environ 10 000 ans. Les résultats permettront d’identifier et de caractériser le décès traumatique et de mieux comprendre les adaptations comportementales de l’homme. Afficher les objectifs du projet Masquer les objectifs du projet Objectif 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. Champ scientifique natural sciencesbiological scienceszoologymammalogyprimatologysocial sciencessociologydemographymortalitymedical and health sciencesother medical sciencesforensic sciences Mots‑clés Taphonomy Bioarchaeology Africa Human Evolution Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Thème(s) MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships Appel à propositions H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinateur THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Contribution nette de l'UE € 224 933,76 Adresse TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS CB2 1TN Cambridge Royaume-Uni Voir sur la carte Région East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Participation aux programmes de R&I de l'UE Opens in new window Réseau de collaboration HORIZON Opens in new window Coût total € 224 933,76
