| Acronym: | PTDC/CTA-AMB/28511/2017 |
| Cost Center: | 818 |
| Title: | When was the Azores archipelago really colonized? A high resolution paleolimnological approach |
| Start-End: | 01-10-2018 - 30-06-2022 |
| Entidade Beneficiária Principal: | Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso |
| Gestores da FGF: | Lúcia Cláudio, Ricardo Figueira |
| Responsible Researcher: | VÍtor Manuel da Costa Gonçalves |
| Organic Units: | FCT - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia |
| R&D Units: | CIBIO-A - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos |
| Entidade | Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso |
|---|---|
| Total Financing | 54.650,00 € |
| Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (100.0 %) | 54.650,00 € |
Project Description:
Understanding the links between climate change and its impact on the human population and the adaptation of societies in the past is crucial to predicting future climatic and ecological events and predicting adaptive responses. The main objective is to detect the first signs of human colonization and colonization of the Azores archipelago (AA), and to carry out robust high resolution climatic and environmental reconstructions in the last millennia in AA to understand the distribution patterns of the first settlers. These reconstructions will be carried out using a multiproxy characterization of sedimentary lake records. The project will fully achieve this objective by identifying the first signs of change related to human occupation. We plan to use both classical approaches and new approaches to unambiguous markers of human activity preserved in the sedimentary record. Paleoclimatic reconstructions will reveal what climatic conditions occurred during the first human settlements in AA
