Agriculture and the Late Bronze Age collapse of the Hittite Empire

国家利益将通过该项目对世界考古学的一个关键辩论作出的重大学术贡献而积累，即环境变化对古代复杂社会，特别是气候变化的影响程度。因此，它促进了对世界文化以及政治稳定与环境变化之间相互关系的认识。该项目还将鼓励澳大利亚、土耳其和日本学者之间的国际合作，并将在澳大利亚公认的主要不足的考古学领域，即考古植物学，为几名研究学者提供培训。

National benefit will be accrued through the major scholarly contribution the project makes to a key debate in world archaeology, namely the extent to which environmental change affected ancient complex societies, especially climate change. As such it fosters an awareness of world cultures and the interrelation between political stability and environmental change. The project also will encourage international collaboration between Australian, Turkish and Japanese scholars and will provide training for several research scholars in an area of archaeology in which Australia has a recognised major deficit, namely archaeobotany.