ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Palaeoenvironments of Human Behavioural Evolution in Africa
The emergence of Homo sapiens' behavioural complexity represents a fundamental milestone in the evolution of humankind. Still, the causes of this critical transformation remain debated. For the African Middle Stone Age (MSA, ~300 000–40 000 years) a key question is whether and how climate variability contributed to the increasing behavioural complexity in modern humans. However, behavioural-environmental hypotheses remain untestable because the existing palaeoclimatic datasets are spatially, stratigraphically, and causally disconnected from the archaeological record. PIONEER will overcome this impediment by developing a new analytical framework that allows testing of previously untestable…
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