Traditions, Transformations and Technology in Aboriginal Australia

该项目旨在了解在接触之前的澳大利亚土著技术系统的发展和传播，以及这一传播过程与我国大部分地区所说的帕玛语-尼根语的主要扩展之间的联系。在过去的一万年里，土著社会发生了根本性的变化，因为在气候变化期间采用了新的技术和语言。利用考古观察和进化生物学的统计方法，该项目计划绘制古代技术在整个非洲大陆的传播地图，并将这种传播的方向和顺序与重建的语言传播模式进行比较。预计结果将是对土著文化制度演变的新理解。

This project aims to understand the development and spread of technological systems in pre-contact Aboriginal Australia and the connection between that diffusion process and the major expansion of Pama-Nyungan languages spoken over much of our country. Fundamental change occurred in Aboriginal societies over the last ten millennia, as new technologies and languages were adopted during a period of climatic shifts. Using archaeological observations and statistical methods from evolutionary biology, the project plans to map the spread of ancient technologies across the continent and compare the direction and sequence of that expansion to the reconstructed pattern of language spread. The result is expected to be a new understanding of the evolution of Aboriginal cultural systems.