Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2001/00256
Sustainability and sensitivity to climatic change of pre-Inca and Inca irrigated terrace agricultural systems in Peru.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor R Kemp, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor J Lowe, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, Geography
- Grant held at:
- Royal Holloway, Univ of London, Geography
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Science-Based Archaeology
- Quaternary Science
- Soil science
- Abstract:
- The scientific issue to be addressed is the sustainability and sensitivity to climatic change of pre-colonial irrigated terrace agricultural systems in the southern Peruvian Andes. Chemical and micromorphological properties of buried palaeosols will be used to categorise the fertility status prior to terrace abandonment. The pollen stratigraphy of adjacent mire deposits will provide high-resolution information on environmental, including land-use, changes. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from the palaeosols and plant macrofossils from the mires will provide a tight chronological framework enabling correlations between the palaeoecological, palaeopedological and archaeological records as well as to Late Holocene ice-core records of regional climatic change.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2001/00256
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £31,646
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £14,590 | £6,663 | £3,680 | £6,712 |
If you need further help, please read the user guide.