About AHOB
	The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) is a three-phase project to investigate ancient humans from Palaeolithic and Mesolithic northern Europe, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The third phase, "Dispersals of Early Humans: Adaptations, frontiers and new territories", is funded at £1.1 million and begins 1 October 2009, running for three years after that date. AHOB 3, whose project members come from across Britain, Europe, and North America, has four overriding research themes: The record of human dispersal. What is the chronology of human dispersals over the last million years and where were the frontiers of human occupation at different times? Natural factors controlling human dispersal. How did the nature of occupation change through time, and what were the factors controlling dispersal into marginal environments: climate, resource availability, and changing geography? Population dynamics. Was occupation continuous or episodic, and how viable were human populations at the limits of their range? Human responses. What survival strategies were deployed in these marginal situations: seasonal migration, technological innovation, or physical adaptation? These themes will be addressed in three modules (Figure 1). Figure 1. The temporal and geographic context of AHOB 3 research modules. [Click here for high-resolution copy]. Module 1: First pioneers in northern Europe. 1.0 - 0.5 million years ago. Module 2: Neanderthals and the North Sea Basin: Demography and technology, 420,000 - 40,000 years ago. Module 3: Modern migrants. 50,000 - 11, 000 years ago. AHOB 3 will take the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project through eleven continuous years. The first AHOB project ran from 2001 to 2006, funded by The Leverhulme Trust with £1.21 million (see the AHOB 1 web site). The second AHOB project, which extended the scope of investigation from Britain to continental Europe, ran from 2006 through 2009, funded by The Leverhulme Trust with £900 thousand (see the AHOB 2 web site). Resources and publications produced by the AHOB projects are available on this site.
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