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Description
An interdisciplinary team from SEED, FSE and external collaborators in the UK and South Africa – led by Dr Abi Stone (Geography) – have been awarded funding to support fieldwork that will develop a new chronology and environmental reconstruction at the UNESCO-recognised Cave of Hearths, in Limpopo, South Africa.
The project will show how past human occupations in marginal environments can inform sustainable futures and the scientific discoveries will support sustainable conservation of archaeology and cultural heritage.
The international team will collect samples for new luminescence dating protocols, to provide the first reliable chronology for this site, and also collect samples for a future biomolecular investigation, which can demonstrate ancient human occupation of sites in sediments, even without fossil bone remains.
The project will show how past human occupations in marginal environments can inform sustainable futures and the scientific discoveries will support sustainable conservation of archaeology and cultural heritage.
The international team will collect samples for new luminescence dating protocols, to provide the first reliable chronology for this site, and also collect samples for a future biomolecular investigation, which can demonstrate ancient human occupation of sites in sediments, even without fossil bone remains.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 8/02/22 → 30/09/24 |
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