Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100254

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140100254

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The oldest rock art in Asia and the early human occupation of island Southeast Asia. Recent research revealed that humans were producing rock paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at least 39 thousand years ago (and possibly up to 46 thousand years ago). The rock art, therefore, is essentially contemporaneous with the earliest cave art in Europe and may be the world's oldest, given the arrival of Homo sapiens in Australia at least 50 thousand years ago. This project will further investigate the early rock art of Sulawesi as well as other key Indonesian islands located along likely migration routes from Borneo to New Guinea. The results will have major implications for our understanding of the cultural behaviour and dispersal of the earliest modern humans to colonise Southeast Asia and Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2014

End Date: 01-05-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $395,205.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

Other Keywords

Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

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