50,000 years of human subsistence behaviour in northern Australia

40多年来，考古学家一直在争论澳大利亚最初殖民的性质以及人们随后如何应对大规模气候变化。这是第一项系统地研究澳大利亚北方人类生存行为和动物群落结构变化的研究。通过对主要考古遗址的古动物群进行分析，该项目旨在测试关于澳大利亚北方最初被占领的原因和方式以及人们对剧烈环境变化的反应方式的假设。希望该项目的另一项成果将是深入了解澳大利亚动物群落破碎化的原因，特别是认识到食肉动物的损害。

For over 40 years, archaeologists have debated the nature of the initial colonisation of Australia and how people subsequently coped with large-scale climate change. This is the first study to examine systematically variation in human subsistence behaviour and animal community structure across northern Australia. Through analyses of archaeofaunas from key archaeological sites, this project aims to test assumptions about why and how northern Australia was first occupied and the manner in which people responded to dramatic environmental shifts. An additional outcome of this project, it is hoped, will be insight into the causes of fragmentation in Australian fauna assemblages and in particular, the recognition of carnivore damage.