Traditions, Transformations and Technology in Aboriginal Australia

这个项目的目的是了解技术系统在接触前的澳大利亚土著的发展和传播，以及这一传播过程与在我国大部分地区使用的帕马-纽恩甘语的主要扩张之间的联系。在过去的一万年里，随着气候变化期间新技术和语言的采用，土著社会发生了根本性的变化。利用考古观察和进化生物学的统计方法，该项目计划绘制古代技术在整个大陆的传播地图，并将这种传播的方向和顺序与语言传播的重建模式进行比较。研究结果有望使人们对土著文化体系的演变有新的认识。

This project aims to understand the development and spread of technological systems in pre-contact Aboriginal Australia and the connection between that diffusion process and the major expansion of Pama-Nyungan languages spoken over much of our country. Fundamental change occurred in Aboriginal societies over the last ten millennia, as new technologies and languages were adopted during a period of climatic shifts. Using archaeological observations and statistical methods from evolutionary biology, the project plans to map the spread of ancient technologies across the continent and compare the direction and sequence of that expansion to the reconstructed pattern of language spread. The result is expected to be a new understanding of the evolution of Aboriginal cultural systems.