Diving into the Desert. Indigenous and Future Floodplain Management

该项目旨在发现土著社区如何管理艾尔湖流域的旱涝循环，并从中学习如何可持续地管理澳大利亚的内陆河。通过将考古--在水下、陆地和空中完成--与土著知识以及环境和水流模型相结合，该项目预计将揭示世界上最后几个不受管制的沙漠河流系统之一的土著环境工程的深刻历史。该项目的成果--澳大利亚国家海事博物馆巡回展以及文字、音频和3D身临其境的交流--旨在造福澳大利亚的文化生活和减轻洪水，并保护Mithaka土著公司的文化和国家。

This project aims to discover how Indigenous communities managed cycles of drought and flood in the Lake Eyre Basin, and to learn from this to manage Australia’s inland rivers sustainably. By integrating archaeology – done underwater, on land and from the air – with Indigenous knowledge and environmental and flow modelling, the project expects to uncover a deep history of Indigenous environmental engineering in one of the world's last unregulated desert river systems . The project's outcomes – an Australian National Maritime Museum touring exhibition plus written, audio and 3D immersive communications – seek to benefit Australia's cultural life and flood mitigation, and to protect the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation's culture and country.