Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP170100789

Funded Activity Summary

Archaeology and natural history. This project aims to provide critical new information on the archaeology and natural history of one of the world’s largest unregulated desert river systems. Mithaka country incorporates the highly significant Channel Country on the eastern edge of Australia's arid centre. Preliminary research has identified more than 70 large site complexes that provide critical insights on how the Mithaka people adapted to this unique environment and took part in Australia's most extensive long distance trade systems. The project will study the archaeological landscape, artefacts and an extensive in-situ skeletal record in the context of a detailed palaeoenvironmental study. It will provide a new cultural-environmental history of this landscape and provide the Mithaka with multiple strands of connection to their ancestral land and culture and support their aspirations to create employment through rangers programs, education and cultural tourism.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 26-03-2019

End Date: 25-03-2024

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $607,330.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Quaternary Environments | Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Biological (Physical) Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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

Other Keywords

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Archaeology | Biological (Physical) Anthropology | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences | Quaternary Environments | Understanding Australia's Past

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