Toxic Harvest: The antiquity of rainforest Aboriginal occupation and toxic plant use in long-term subsistence patterns

有毒收获：热带雨林土著居民占领和长期使用有毒植物的历史。该项目旨在调查人类占领澳大利亚热带雨林的历史，以及有毒植物在适应过程中所起的作用。国际研究表明，只有在过去的5000年里，人们才能永久地占领雨林，从事农业生产。事实上，澳大利亚热带雨林的土著居民是狩猎采集者，他们使用专门的加工技术来开采有毒的植物食物，并生活在高密度的人口中，这表明情况更为复杂。成果包括促进关于人类雨林定居的起源和古代的国际辩论，了解雨林植物的生物学特性以及发展与土著社区的研究伙伴关系。

Toxic Harvest: The antiquity of rainforest Aboriginal occupation and toxic plant use in long-term subsistence patterns. The project aims to investigate the antiquity of human occupation of Australian tropical rainforests and the role that toxic plants played in the adaptation process. International research suggests that people only permanently occupied rainforests in the last 5,000 years with access to agriculture. The fact that Australian rainforest Aborigines were hunter-gatherers using specialised processing technology to exploit toxic plant foods and living at high population densities suggests a more complex situation. Outcomes include contribution to international debates on the origin and antiquity of human rainforest settlement, an understanding of the biological properties of rainforest plants and development of research partnerships with Indigenous communities.