ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT150100420

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT150100420

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Divergent pathways to tropical agriculture in Australasia and Wallacea. The project aims to address a major question in world archaeology: why did some people develop agriculture, while others did not? It plans to establish plant macrofossil and microfossil reference collections for three wet tropical regions: highland Papua New Guinea, Moluccas in eastern Indonesia, and western Arnhem Land in Australia. It then plans to use previously excavated archaeobotanical assemblages to establish robust plant-use chronologies for these regions. In this way, the project seeks to develop capacity for tropical archaeobotany within Australia and to revolutionise concepts of plant exploitation, domestication and cultivation in tropical Australasia and Wallacea during the Holocene (last c.11 500 years).

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-09-2016

End Date: 31-03-2021

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $791,191.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Understanding Australia's Past | Understanding Asia's Past | Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Understanding Asia's Past | Understanding Australia's Past | Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified

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