Toxic Harvest: The antiquity of rainforest Aboriginal occupation and toxic plant use in long-term subsistence patterns

有毒收获：热带雨林的古老土著居民的占领和有毒植物的使用在长期的生存模式。该项目旨在调查人类占用澳大利亚热带雨林的古老性以及有毒植物在适应过程中所起的作用。国际研究表明，人类只有在过去5,000年中才永久地占据雨林，并获得农业。澳大利亚热带雨林原住民是狩猎采集者，使用专门的加工技术开发有毒植物食物，并生活在高人口密度下，这一事实表明情况更为复杂。其成果包括促进关于人类雨林定居起源和古代的国际辩论，了解雨林植物的生物学特性，以及与土著社区发展研究伙伴关系。

Toxic Harvest: The antiquity of rainforest Aboriginal occupation and toxic plant use in long-term subsistence patterns. The project aims to investigate the antiquity of human occupation of Australian tropical rainforests and the role that toxic plants played in the adaptation process. International research suggests that people only permanently occupied rainforests in the last 5,000 years with access to agriculture. The fact that Australian rainforest Aborigines were hunter-gatherers using specialised processing technology to exploit toxic plant foods and living at high population densities suggests a more complex situation. Outcomes include contribution to international debates on the origin and antiquity of human rainforest settlement, an understanding of the biological properties of rainforest plants and development of research partnerships with Indigenous communities.