The Contribution of South Asia to the Peopling of Australasia

  • Bulbeck, Francis (PI)
  • Groves, Colin (CoI)

    Project: Research

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    Description

    This project focuses on the human fossil record from three regions critical to understanding the origins of our species, Homo sapiens. Australia is crucial in view of its diverse array of "gracile" and "robust" human remains of Late Pleistocene/early Holocene age. Equally important are South and Southeast Asia as they lined the tropical route between Africa, our species' Late Pleistocene homeland according to the Out of Africa theory, and Australia. Osteological and archaeological evidence of the selection pressures that operated on earlier hunter-gatherers will be employed to explain the observed patterns of morphological evolution throughout the study region.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date1/01/0231/12/07

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