Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL140100218

Funded Activity Summary

The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific: a hidden history. The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific: a hidden history. The project aims to establish the history of Pacific archaeology as a new sub-discipline within world archaeology, covering the period from the speculations of early explorers to the present. The often-forgotten role of Australian and New Zealand scholars will be highlighted. Pacific archaeologists, stewards of a third of the World's archaeology, have forgotten so much of that history that the discipline is in a serious conceptual crisis, with current theories about the origins of Pacific peoples mired in outmoded and often racialised assumptions. At the same time, our ideas about the Pacific past are becoming internalised among indigenous Pacific Islanders. There is a need for understanding the disciplinary history in order to move theory forward.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-03-2015

End Date: 29-03-2020

Funding Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships

Funding Amount: $2,429,568.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | Māori Archaeology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |

Other Keywords

Archaeology | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Māori Archaeology | Understanding Australia's Past | Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified

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