Northern Vanuatu as a Pacific Crossroads: The archaeology of discovery, interaction and the emergence of the ethnographic present

该项目致力于“了解我们的地区和世界”的国家研究优先目标。支持与瓦努阿图等太平洋岛屿较小邻国的研究项目总体上促进了澳大利亚与这些国家的关系。这项研究将加强我们对该地区深厚的人类历史的了解。它将增进澳大利亚对其近邻的了解，并为这些邻国提供信息，以形成他们自己对过去及其与现在的关系的看法。这项拟议的研究与世界考古学和相关学科内部正在进行的辩论直接相关。

The project addresses the National Research Priority Goal of "Understanding our Region and the World". Supporting research programs with smaller Pacific Island neighbours such as Vanuatu fosters Australia's relationship with those countries generally. This research will strengthen our knowledge of the region's deep human past. It will advance Australia's understanding of its nearest neighbours as well as provide those neighbours with information they can use to shape their own views of their past and its relationship to their present. The proposed research has direct relevance to on-going debates within world archaeology and related disciplines.