Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208824

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208824

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria Archaeological Project. This field-based project investigates patterns of past Aboriginal island use in the south-west Gulf of Carpentaria. It addresses the nature and chronology of island habitation, and how people in the Gulf responded to the post-glacial sea level rise. Did people in northern Australia become stranded on islands in the mid-Holocene as they did on Flinders and Kangaroos Islands in the south, or were watercraft already part of their material culture? This and other issues such as the cultural relationship between the present-day Yanyuwa and past island inhabitants, and the influences of early Macassan (Indonesian) contact will be investigated archaeologically.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 18-02-2002

End Date: 17-02-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $242,700.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Archaeology | Aboriginal Cultural Studies

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Aboriginal Cultural Studies | Archaeology | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Understanding Australia'S Past

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