Investigating the archaeology of human settlement in the highlands of PNG

大约5万年前，人们越过华莱士线，第一次踏上了萨胡尔(更新世澳大利亚-新几内亚)。在一段气候恶化的时期，沙胡尔大陆的冰川迅速扩散。人类对景观的后续影响在化石记录中得到了很好的保存，特别是植物。该项目旨在采用考古学和古植物学方法，调查第四纪晚期气候变化期间景观利用的时间和空间格局。预计这些结果将使人们更全面地了解人类在较长时期内对气候变化的生存战略和动态反应。

Around 50 000 years ago, people crossed the Wallace Line and set foot on Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea) for the first time. Rapid dispersal across the Sahul continent followed during a period of climatic deterioration. Subsequent human impacts on the landscape are well preserved in the fossil record, particularly plants. This project aims to implement an archaeological and palaeobotanical approach to investigate the temporal and spatial patterning of landscape use through a period of climatic change in the Late Quaternary. The results are expected to provide a fuller understanding of the subsistence strategies and dynamics of human responses to climate change over long time periods.