Paleoanthropology of the Kibish Formation, Ethiopia

埃塞俄比亚基比什地层的古人类学

• 批准号: 9817950
• 负责人: John Fleagle
• 金额: $ 4.81万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-12-15 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9817950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Paleoanthropology; Kibish; Formation; Ethiopia

In the past ten years, no topic in human evolution that has attracted more attention from both the public and the research community than the origin of anatomically modern humans. It has been the subject of numerous conferences and edited volumes and has attracted the attention and efforts of scientists in a wide range of disciplines, including geology, paleontology, archeology, and genetics as well as paleoanthropologists. This project will contribute important new information to this issue by clarifying the chronometric position of a series of fossils collected several decades ago that have become critical documentation for an early appearance of anatomically modern humans in Africa, and will provide a broad framework for environmental and faunal change in East Africa during the past 130,000 years. In view of the previous finds from the Kibish Formation and the extent of unexplored deposits, this project has the potential of providing new skeletal and archeological remains of modern humans during this critical time period that involved major cultural, and probably cognitive, advances in our species. A two month field season will be undertaken in January and February of 1999 with team composed of geologists, geochronologists, paleontologists and archeologists. The goals of this research will be to clarify the stratigraphy of previously collected hominid remains from the Kibish Formation and solidify the age of the different members through collection and subsequent analysis of datable materials, including volcanic ashes, wood or animal remains, and to survey for new paleontological and archeological sites.

在过去的十年中，没有比解剖学现代人类的起源更吸引公众和研究界更加关注的人类进化论。它一直是许多会议的主题，并编辑了数量，并吸引了科学家在广泛学科的关注和努力，包括地质学，古生物学，考古学和遗传学以及古人类学家。该项目将通过澄清几十年前收集的一系列化石的等上立场来为这个问题提供重要的新信息，这些化石已成为非洲解剖学上现代人类的早期出现的关键文档，并将为环境和动物群提供广泛的框架在过去的130，000年中，东非的变化。鉴于奇比什（Kibish）形成的先前发现以及未探索的沉积物的程度，该项目有可能在这个关键时期提供现代人类的新骨骼和考古遗体，涉及主要的文化，并可能认知我们物种的进步。 1999年1月和2月将与由地质学家，地质学家，古生物学家和考古学家组成的团队进行两个月的实地季节。这项研究的目标是阐明先前收集的人类遗体的地层，并通过收集和随后分析数据材料（包括火山灰，木材或动物遗体）来巩固不同成员的年龄，并调查以进行调查以进行调查以进行调查以进行调查。新的古生物学和考古遗址。