ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT170100025

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FT170100025

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The unknown ‘Ice Age’ artists of Borneo. This project aims to shift the focus of the search for art’s origins onto important new horizons. Who were the first artists? When and why did it become second nature for humans not simply to exist within the natural world, but to encode it with images of things both real and imagined? The discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi and more recently in Borneo dating to at least 40,000 years ago has altered our understanding of the origins and spread of the first painting traditions. This project will build upon these breakthrough discoveries by constructing the first detailed portrait of the cultural and symbolic worlds of the unknown artists of Pleistocene Borneo. By doing so, it will further our knowledge about the process of the emergence of figurative art, one of the most fundamental cultural developments in the evolution of humankind.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2017

End Date: 30-06-2021

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $998,804.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Archaeological Science | Archaeology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Understanding Asia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology

Other Keywords

Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Understanding Asia's Past

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