Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE170101447

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE170101447

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Rock art as a proxy for environmental change. The project aims to identify fauna in rock art in the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area, NT, an area with no Pleistocene palaeontological fauna record. Rock art in Arnhem Land preserves information about past fauna species unavailable archaeologically beyond the Late Holocene. This repertoire has been vastly under-exploited as a source of data about changing human-animal relationships past and present. The research will augment zoological methods with insights from Aboriginal people. Securely identifying and dating fauna species in rock art is expected to enhance understanding past human-animal relationships. Potential benefits include enhancing international significance of Australia’s rock art and informing debates on megafauna extinctions, climate, and environmental change in Australia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 20-03-2017

End Date: 30-06-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $359,586.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Archaeology | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales | Understanding Australia's Past

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