We are pleased to announce that our Discovery Project titled “From foraging to farming. Human adaptations during major transitions”, in collaboration with Professor Stefano Benazzi (University of Bologna) and Professor Rachel Sarig (Tel Aviv University), will be funded by the Australian Research Council for a total of $717,816.
This project aims to investigate the causes that led to the human demographic explosion occurred during the Neolithic Revolution by analysing dental tissues through cutting-edge methods. This project expects to generate novel insights about the diet, health and weaning practices in Mediterranean human populations from the last 30,000 years. Expected outcomes of this project include the creation of new data on early life dietary transitions in archaeological populations, enhancing capacity to build interdisciplinary collaborations, and refining methods and concepts to study the diet of the past. This should provide significant benefits to Australian research in evolutionary anthropology, nutrition and in dentistry.
