Archaeology and natural history.

该项目旨在提供有关世界上最大的未受管制的沙漠河流系统之一的考古学和自然历史的重要新信息。米塔卡县位于澳大利亚干旱中心的东部边缘，是一个非常重要的海峡县。初步研究已经确定了70多个大型遗址综合体，这些综合体为Mithaka人如何适应这种独特的环境并参与澳大利亚最广泛的远程贸易系统提供了关键的见解。该项目将在详细的古环境研究的背景下，研究考古景观、文物和广泛的原址骨骼记录。它将提供这一景观的新的文化环境历史，并为Mithaka人提供与他们祖传的土地和文化的多股联系，并支持他们通过护林员计划、教育和文化旅游创造就业的愿望。

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.