Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210363

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0210363

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Toxic Harvest: The antiquity of rainforest Aboriginal occupation and toxic plant use in long-term subsistence patterns. The project aims to investigate the antiquity of human occupation of Australian tropical rainforests and the role that toxic plants played in the adaptation process. International research suggests that people only permanently occupied rainforests in the last 5,000 years with access to agriculture. The fact that Australian rainforest Aborigines were hunter-gatherers using specialised processing technology to exploit toxic plant foods and living at high population densities suggests a more complex situation. Outcomes include contribution to international debates on the origin and antiquity of human rainforest settlement, an understanding of the biological properties of rainforest plants and development of research partnerships with Indigenous communities.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 28-02-2002

End Date: 27-02-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $276,568.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Archaeology | Archaeological Science |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage | Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene

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