Understanding the early phases of Neolithic dispersal in the western Pacific.

该项目通过对包括菲律宾和台湾在内的邻近亚洲岛屿的考古和古环境研究，调查了6000-3500年前亚洲大陆文化向岛屿世界的转变。这一转变是一个形成过程，在随后的数千年里，岛屿殖民扩展到太平洋和印度洋，该项目旨在通过采取殖民方法来评估资源丰富度和其他环境因素对人口的影响，以此来建立早期的考古工作。成果包括对新石器时代扩张的新的和更详细的说明，包括对定居点模式、生存发展和环境关系的说明。

The project investigates the transition of mainland Asian cultures to a world of islands from 6000-3500 years ago by an archaeological and palaeoenvironmental study of near-Asian islands including the Philippines and Taiwan. This transition is the formative process that saw island colonisation extend out into the Pacific and Indian Oceans in subsequent millennia, and the project aims to build on earlier archaeological work by taking a colonisation approach that assesses resource richness and other environmental forces on the populations. Outcomes include a new and more detailed account of neolithic expansion including accounts of settlement pattern, subsistence development and environmental relationships.