People living today have complex behaviours and social interactions that are evolutionarily unique. Understanding what drove these developments, and how they enabled us to migrate, settle and prosper in almost every part of the globe, are central questions in archaeological research. This project will expand our knowledge of the cultural resilience that has seen people thrive in the most climatically dynamic region on Earth: the Australasian monsoon domain. It will produce new insights into how populations, from the first human colonists to the recent cultural groups, used art and ritual to mitigate environmental stress. It will strengthen collaborations between researchers and indigenous stakeholders across the Asian Pacific region, empowering contemporary Aboriginal artists to deliver narratives of past cultural resilience that will be of timely benefit to people currently grappling with climate vulnerabilities.
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Please contact Dr Jillian Huntley if you would like copies of raw spectral files: j.huntley@griffith.edu.au