FRAGSUS

"Fragility and sustainability in restricted island environments: adaptation, cultural change and collapse in prehistory"

Coordinatore	QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	2˙491˙768 €
EC contributo	2˙491˙768 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2012-ADG_20120411
Funding Scheme	ERC-AG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-05-01   -   2018-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE  Organization address address: The Old Schools, Trinity Lane city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB2 1TN contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Renata Cognome: Schaeffer Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 333543	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	beneficiary	402˙751.20
2	UNIVERSITA TA MALTA  Organization address address: University Campus, Tal-Qroqq city: MSIDA postcode: 2080 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Mark Cognome: Debono Email: send email Telefono: 35623402222	MT (MSIDA)	beneficiary	332˙359.20
3	SUPERINTENDENCE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE-SOVRINTENDENZA TAL PATRIMONJU KULTURALI SCH  Organization address address: TRIQ SAN KRISTOFRU 173 city: Valletta postcode: VLT 1467 contact info Nome: A Cognome: A Email: send email Telefono: +32 298 5141	MT (Valletta)	beneficiary	169˙153.20
4	HERITAGE MALTA  Organization address address: Old University Buildings, Merchants Street city: VALLETTA postcode: VLT 03 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Olivianne Cognome: Briffa Email: send email Telefono: +356 22 954 000	MT (VALLETTA)	beneficiary	124˙159.20
5	UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH  Organization address address: DRAKE CIRCUS city: PLYMOUTH postcode: PL4 8AA contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Suzanne Cognome: Ash Email: send email Telefono: 441753000000	UK (PLYMOUTH)	beneficiary	11˙940.00
6	QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST  Organization address address: University Road city: BELFAST postcode: BT7 1NN contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Caroline Ann Tuke Cognome: Stoddart Email: send email Telefono: +44 2890 973826 Fax: +44 2890 973826	UK (BELFAST)	hostInstitution	1˙451˙405.20
7	QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST  Organization address address: University Road city: BELFAST postcode: BT7 1NN contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Rory Cognome: Jordan Email: send email Telefono: 442891000000 Fax: 442891000000	UK (BELFAST)	hostInstitution	1˙451˙405.20

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Sustainability of societies in a restricted or fragile environment forms a perpetual question, past and present underpinning questions of the rise and fall of civilisation. Today, the eroded Maltese islands support one of the densest human populations in the world. When first colonised in the 6th millennium BC, pristine soil and forest covered the landscape, but within centuries the landscape was bare and under intensive cultivation. The Neolithic perpetrators of the original clearance developed a sophisticated if isolated island civilisation in the face of the precarious environment and limited natural resources. Their megalithic temples focused on ritual feasting whilst complex social organisation controlled food distribution. Over centuries, Malta maintained an intensive subsistence economy and a controlled population, but 2500 years after the first settlement that socio-economic system seems to have imploded resulting in the collapse of its island civilisation. What precise conditions led to this collapse, and was there complete or only partial economic and cultural failure? Did external factors - episodes of climatic instability, sea-level change, disease, invasion – impact irreversibly on the island inhabitants, or did over-intensification cause internal political and economic failure? Were the islands abandoned or was life sustained on them? Were other small islands affected in similar ways? These questions underpin my investigation which aims to extract eroding and fragile environmental and archaeological evidence from rapidly deteriorating landscapes. The goal is to understand the relationship between environmental change, stress and cultural continuity or collapse. I will address these questions through application of modern interdisciplinary environmental sciences (including palynology, climate studies, dating, dietary isotopes and landscape archaeology) to establish the impact of environmental change on island populations.'