2025-2029
Project
Diet-Scratches
DIET-Scratches: DIETary Strategies and
their Changes Recorded by Ancient
Teeth: Considering the Hominin
Evolutionary Sequence
Supervisor
- Gildas Merceron
- Stéphane Ferchaud (GenEsi)
Funding
DIET-Scratches is a collaborative project funded by the French National Agency for Research, 2017-2023.
Aims
To assess how climate changes have impacted human evolution requires us to investigate the feeding ecology of hominins, as food resources are highly dependent from climate conditions. The DIET-Scratches project attempts to detect ecological behaviors in dental archives in investigating different proxies on a large set of domesticated pigs issued from different controlled food testing.
The DIET-Scratches project has for ambition to re-investigate the dietary habits of early hominins from the Omo valley in Ethiopia through the prisms of this experimental approach.
Consortium
DIET-Scratches is conducted by two teams: Paleovoprim (which coordinates the project) and GenEsi Unit (INRAE). A dozen of scientists from these teams and others groups (Pprime, Poitiers et LGL : TPE, Lyon) compose the research group.
