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Textiles in Southern Etruria. Textile Technology in Central Tyrrheanian Italy from Late Prehistory to the Roman Republican Period
ID623281From6 March 2014to1 February 2016FunderEuropean CommissionThe TexSEt project will investigate the emergence and development of textile technologies and the use of textile fibres in Central-Western Italy from Late Prehistory (Final Bronze Age – 10th century BC) until the Roman Republican period (1st century BC), with a particular focus on the Etruscan perio...Movement and Migration in Irish Prehistory
ID301460From1 October 2012to2 September 2014FunderEuropean Commission"The aim of this project is to achieve a better understanding of human population movements and migrations during the Mesolithic and early Neolithic periods in the Atlantic regions of northwest Europe. The investigation will especially focus on the role of such movements in bringing about social, cu...IN AFRICA: THE ROLE OF EAST AFRICA IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN DIVERSITY
ID295907From5 June 2012to3 January 2018FunderEuropean CommissionOver 25 years, knowledge of modern human origins, evolution and diversity has increased dramatically. Genetics has been a major driver, promoting the ‘out of Africa model’, but, except for ancient DNA, it only tells the story of evolutionary survivors. African human population’ distributions mean th...Assessing the variability of the first Anatomically Modern Humans behavior: Human / environment interaction in Western Europe and South Africa (60,000 – 40,000 years B.P.)
ID328319From4 August 2013to0 July 2016FunderEuropean Commission"This project targets the shift and variability of human adaptive systems in the scope of the dispersion of the Anatomically Modern Humans (AMHs), from the African continent to throughout Eurasia 60,000 years ago.This dispersion was accompanied by new technical, social and territorial organizations...Food and Society in Mediterranean Prehistory
ID235966From1 September 2009to2 September 2011FunderEuropean CommissionThis research reconstructs diet and economy as social relations in the later prehistory of the Central Mediterranean. Particular emphasis is given to the Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age of Northern and Southern Italy. The principal technique used is isotope analysis of human remains; isotope da...Following the Genomic Footprints of Early Europeans
ID311413From1 October 2012to6 September 2017FunderEuropean CommissionTwo of greatest challenges of the post-genomic era are to (i) develop a detailed understanding of the heritable variation in the human genome, and to (ii) determine which key events in human evolutionary history that are responsible for patterns of genomic variation. The recent genomic revolution wi...Palaeolithic Plant Use in the Western Mediterranean
ID614960From2 July 2014to4 December 2015FunderEuropean CommissionThis project deals with one of the big gaps of knowledge in prehistory, how plant foods and resources were used by preagrarian societies. Plants have been fundamental for human societies across the planet. However, it is a blank when it comes to archaeological evidence of humans eating and exploitin...HUMAN ADAPTATIONAL PATTERNS TO ARID ENVIRONMENTS IN NORTH AFRICA
ID274827From6 October 2011to1 September 2013FunderEuropean Commission"The relationship between climate and culture is one of the most important areas of debate in the case of the Late Pleistocene, c.60,000-10,000 BP (years ago), when profound and frequently abrupt climatic changes coincided with significant human migrations and shifts in behavioural complexity. A maj...Optimizing Research tools for Cetaceans in Archaeology
ID299075From1 September 2012to2 September 2014FunderEuropean Commission"Whale hunting has been practiced by a variety of cultures worldwide for millennia, and played a key economic and sociological role. Today, whales are one of the most threatened groups of mammals, almost exclusively due to recent industrial hunting practices. Archaeological investigations into the h...Food Globalisation in Prehistory
ID249642From6 May 2010to6 October 2015FunderEuropean CommissionEach of today s major food species is distributed worldwide. While much of that food globalisation has resulted from modern trade networks, it has its roots in prehistory. By the end of the second millennium BC, the south west Asian crops, wheat and barley, were in several parts of China, and Chines...Materiality and depositional practices in the later Prehistory in Europe: an interdisciplinary approach using central Iberia (Spain) record as a case study
ID298285From2 May 2012to3 April 2014FunderEuropean Commission"The vast majority of European archaeological heritage during later Prehistory consists in ephemeral, scattered and scarcely stratified evidence. The research agenda on this topic lacks disciplinary debate and is based on out-of-date, isolationist and stagnant perspectives. This research proposal co...The first European daggers: Function, meaning, and social significance
ID798688From5 February 2019to0 February 2021FunderEuropean CommissionThe researcher is moving from Italy to Newcastle University (United Kingdom) to carry out EuroDag, the first ever comparative study of the function of early European stone and copper/bronze daggers, c. 3800-1500 BC. The EuroDag project aims to understand how early daggers were used, for what purpose...“World’s first techno-economic viable recycling technology for waste woodboards”
ID808505From5 December 2017to4 May 2018FunderEuropean CommissionMankind uses wood as a raw material since the stone age. It has been perceived to be an abundantly available even renewable resource, it literally grows everywhere and people have a natural tendency to apply wood for their everyday use in many ways Nevertheless, Recently, demand for wood and wood-ba...Technological Variability during the Late Pleistocene in Eastern Africa: lithic assemblages as indirect witnesses of past human population dynamics
ID655459From4 October 2015to6 September 2017FunderEuropean CommissionPleisTechnoVar aims to better understand the increase in technological variability observed in Africa during the Late Pleistocene, between 70000 and 15000 years ago. While many research projects have focused on the origins of Homo sapiens and its spread Out of Africa into Eurasia, fewer research has...Virtual Anthropology of Prehistoric Portugal
ID839822From1 January 2020to3 January 2022FunderEuropean CommissionThe VAPP Project will examine prehistoric human population dynamics and microevolution in Portugal through the analysis of dental morphological variation. Variation in external dental morphology (e.g., size, shape, and discrete characteristics) provides reliable data on biological affinity and relat...FLow of Ancient Metals across Eurasia (FLAME): New frameworks for interpreting human interaction in Later Prehistory
ID670010From4 October 2015to4 September 2021FunderEuropean CommissionFLow of Ancient Metals across Eurasia (FLAME) is a new empirical and conceptual framework for understanding human interactions in Later Prehistory across all of Eurasia. Taking existing data on the chemical and isotopic composition of copper alloy objects and combining them with typological and chro...ChemArch: The organic chemistry and molecular biology of archaeological artefacts
ID956351From1 March 2021to5 February 2025FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITY OF YORKWe propose a European Joint Doctorate in response to the need for early stage training between the analytical sciences and archaeology. Archaeological chemistry, biomolecular archaeology and archaeometry are fast growing disciplines that have reinvigorated research of museum and archaeological artef...Worldly Matter: The Materials of Conceptual Art
ID753815From0 October 2017to1 September 2019FunderEuropean CommissionThe aim of this project is to re-evaluate established narratives of Conceptual Art in North America and Western Europe and their global context. It will examine the importance of materiality and subject matter – or “worldly matters”, to borrow Conceptual artist Douglas Huebler’s term – for Conceptua...The Innovation, Dispersal and Use of Ceramics in NW Eurasia
ID695539From4 September 2016to2 February 2023FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorBRITISH MUSEUMThe origins, adoption and use of pottery vessels are among archaeology’s most compelling issues. Pottery vessels are no longer viewed in western archaeology as a material correlate of sedentary farming life in the Neolithic. Despite recognition of pottery vessels in hunter-gatherer contexts in some...The Time of Early Metalwork in Prehistoric Italy
ID657211From2 September 2015to4 August 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThe researcher is moving from Italy to the UK in order to build a new chronology and classification method for early metal artefacts (i.e. axes, daggers and halberds) from Italy, c.4500-2000 BC. The project aims will be achieved through a combination of radiocarbon dating and scientifically informed...Plant foods in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic societies of SE Europe and Italy
ID639286From3 July 2015to5 December 2021FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZAThe role of plant foods among prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies remains one of the major issues of World Prehistory. Recovering evidence for the use of plants in ancient forager diets presents many difficulties due to the low rate of survival of organic remains. More recently, developments of va...Papuans on the move. The linguistic prehistory of the West Papuan languages.
ID848532From2 September 2020to0 August 2025FunderEuropean CommissionThis project combines urgent documentation of endangered languages in Indonesia with rigorous investiga-tion of a linguistic puzzle that has important implications for our understanding of both Melanesian and Southeast Asian prehistory. Some two dozen Papuan languages, scattered over a 1000km on and...Millet and beans, language and genes. The origin and dispersal of the Transeurasian family.
ID646612From2 September 2015to0 February 2021FunderEuropean Commission"The question about the origin and dispersal of the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic) is one of the most disputed issues in linguistic history. Eurasia3angle will address this question from an interdisciplinary perspective. My key objective is to effecti...Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000 – 5000 BC
ID640557From4 October 2015to0 January 2021FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorBIOSENSE INSTITUTE - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOSYSTEMSThe BIRTH project will investigate the key biological and cultural mechanisms affecting fertility rates resulting the Neolithic Demogaphic Transition, the major demographic shift in human evolution. We integrate skeletal markers with micro-nutritional and macro-scaled cultural effects on fertility r...First ceramics of Atlantic Europe: manufacture and function
ID653354From4 October 2015to6 September 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThe arrival of farming had important consequences on many aspects of human society, from health to ideology. The study of this process therefore constitutes a key theme in prehistory and archaeology. One of the traits traditionally associated with the transition to farming in Europe is the introduct...