Warratyi: Cultural Innovation in the Indigenous Settlement of Australia

该项目旨在确定文化创新在5万年前澳大利亚干旱地区土著居民定居中的作用。它将使用创新方法，产生关于关键技术、象征性行为以及人类与动物和环境互动的新数据，以确定克服澳大利亚沙漠挑战所需的文化创新。预期成果包括对干旱地区定居点的新认识，为有关边缘环境中早期人类的分散、定居和生活方式的全球辩论提供信息。预期的好处包括为文化旅游和教育提供新的信息，并支持南澳提名弗林德斯山脉为世界遗产。

This project aims to determine the role of cultural innovation in the Indigenous settlement of Australia's arid zone 50,000 years ago. Using innovative methods, it will produce new data on key technologies, symbolic behaviours and human interactions with animals and environment to identify the cultural innovations needed to overcome the challenges of Australia's deserts. Expected outcomes include new understandings of the settlement of the arid zone to inform global debates relating to the dispersal, settlement and lifestyles of early humans in marginal environments. Expected benefits include new information for cultural tourism and education and to support South Australia’s World Heritage nomination for the Flinders Ranges.