H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

TRAUMOBITA · The role of traumatic mortality in late human evolution from an integrated non-invasive bioarchaeological and taphonomic perspective

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-03-01 → 2023-02-28
Финансиране от ЕС: 224 934 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Травматичната смърт при древните хора, причинена от инциденти или насилие, се анализира чрез над 4000 кости от Кения. Това помага да се разбере как причините за смъртта са повлияли на човешката еволюция и поведението ни.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

The role of traumatic mortality in late human evolution from an integrated non-invasive bioarchaeological and taphonomic perspective

How the way we die affects our evolution? Mortality is a major influence in evolution and ecology, and the timing and causes of death can drive many aspects of adaptation. In prehistoric hunter-gather societies the relation between resource availability and disease has been a major mortality parameter. However, there is increasing evidence that traumatic causes of death such as predation, accidents, and inter- and intra-specific violence, play a significant role in demography and adaptive response during our evolution. Did the way we died influenced our evolution? Answering to this question would represent a major advance in the understanding of how we are the way we are. The project The role of traumatic mortality in late human evolution from an integrated non-invasive bioarchaeological and taphonomic perspective has been focused on the study of how different types of mortality have affected human evolution. In this sense, TRAUMOBITA aimed to answer why and how humans died in the past, and if the way we died influenced our behaviour. To do so, the project analysed more than 4,000 human bones from Turkana (Kenya) in East Africa, a place known as the cradle of humanity. By conducting non-destructive techniques the project searched microscopically and microscopically for modifications among the skeletal remains dated as far as 50,000 years ago and aimed to build a useful methodology for the analysis of human bones.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

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.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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