Australia's living technologies: Bone tools from first peoples to contact

该项目旨在研究由动物骨骼和牙齿制成的澳大利亚土著技术，以深入了解接触前的澳大利亚和人类创造力的发展。该项目将使用现代分析技术来研究澳大利亚古老的骨工具工业，并应用磨损技术来推断其制造和使用背后的认知，社会和技术过程。该项目预计将有助于了解澳大利亚和世界殖民史，环境互动，社会互动和创新的史前史，并提供一个基于物质文化的人类最早祖先的文化行为的观点。

This project aims to study Indigenous Australian technologies made from animal bone and tooth to provide insights into pre-contact Australia and the development of human ingenuity. The project will use modern analytical techniques to examine Australia’s ancient bone tool industry, and apply use wear techniques to deduce the cognitive, social, and technological processes behind their manufacture and use. This project expects to contribute to knowledge of Australian and world prehistories of colonisation, environmental interaction, social interaction and innovation, and supply a material culture-based perspective on the cultural behaviour of humans’ earliest ancestors.