The main goal of this PhD project is to understand how climatic and environmental changes during the Middle Stone Age to Late Stone Age transition influenced the ecology of large herbivores and, in turn, shaped human subsistence strategies in eastern Africa. Using the long archaeological sequence of Mumba Cave (Tanzania), the project aims to reconstruct how prey species adapted their diets, habitat use, and seasonal behaviour to shifts in vegetation and hydrology between MIS 5 and MIS 3 through high-resolution stable isotope analyses of herbivore tooth enamel.
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