Details of Award

NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2002/00703

Environmental factors in human evolution and dispersals in the Upper Pleistocene of the western Mediterranean.

Principal Investigator:: Professor NE Barton, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor REM Hedges, University of Oxford, School of Archaeology
Co-Investigator:: Professor K Willis, University of Oxford, Biology
Co-Investigator:: Professor CB Stringer, The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences
Co-Investigator:: Professor TC Atkinson, University College London, Earth Sciences
Grant held at:: The Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences

ENRIs:: Global Change; Biodiversity
Science Topics:: Science-Based Archaeology; Quaternary Science; Palaeoenvironments; Climate & Climate Change

Abstract:: The principal objective of this multidisciplinary project is to create the first detailed database for the Upper Pleistocene human occupation of northern Morocco, using key Middle and Upper Palaeolithic cave sites with well-preserved human finds in association with artefacts, botanical and microfaunal remains. Analysis of multi-proxy data will enable the first comprehensive reconstruction of environmental conditions for this region in OIS3-2. Comparative evidence will be examined from Gibraltar Caves and the pollen sequences from Padul and the Western Mediterranean marine core (MD95-2043). We also aim to test whether human population successions in Northwest Africa were predominantly local events, perhaps indicative of isolation and endemism, or the result of dispersals into the area from the east, south, or even north (Europe).

Authorised funds only

This grant award has a total value of £11,098

Total - T&S	Total - Other Costs
£4,769	£6,329

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