Science and Environment

ARCHAEOLOGY and HUMAN EVOLUTION

Human Origin in East Africa, as seen in Olduvai Gorge Tanzania

Dr Mercader is the Director of  S.D.S. (Stone Tools, Diet, & Sociality at the Dawn of Humanity) a multidisciplinary assessment of ancient environments and ecosystems, diet, subsistence, and technological stability. Using sophisticated portable laboratories and cutting edge analytical techniques, SDS investigates how changing paleoenvironmental conditions influenced hominid dietary behaviour and stone tool technology development and use, and how these factors act as key drivers in human evolutionary research. The project is interested in the interconnections among water availability, plant cover, food ways, technology, and the strategic settlement across the African landscape that paved the way to humanity.

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