Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150102753

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP150102753

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Investigating the archaeology of human settlement in the highlands of PNG. Around 50 000 years ago, people crossed the Wallace Line and set foot on Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea) for the first time. Rapid dispersal across the Sahul continent followed during a period of climatic deterioration. Subsequent human impacts on the landscape are well preserved in the fossil record, particularly plants. This project aims to implement an archaeological and palaeobotanical approach to investigate the temporal and spatial patterning of landscape use through a period of climatic change in the Late Quaternary. The results are expected to provide a fuller understanding of the subsistence strategies and dynamics of human responses to climate change over long time periods.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 16-06-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $485,088.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeological Science | Quaternary Environments | Archaeology | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

Other Keywords

Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Quaternary Environments | Understanding Australia's Past

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