Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP190100194]
Researchers:
Daryl Wesley
(Chief Investigator)
,
Dr Jonathan Osborn
(Chief Investigator)
,
Heather Burke
(Chief Investigator)
,
Jillian Huntley
(Chief Investigator)
,
Lynley Wallis
(Chief Investigator)
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Brief description Aboriginal rock art and cultural heritage management in Cape York Peninsula. The Laura Sandstone Basin of Cape York Peninsula hosts one of the richest bodies of rock art in Australia and the world. It documents the life-ways of generations of Aboriginal Australians from their original settlement, through major environmental changes, to European invasion. This vast area, much of which is now jointly managed as National Parks by Traditional Owners, remains virtually unexplored archaeologically. This project aims to record this unique rock art so that its testimony remains for future generations. This will provide a framework for its sustainable management and findings will have profound implications for our understandings of the cultural behaviour and dispersal of the earliest modern humans to colonise Australia.
Funding Amount $1,342,000
Funding Scheme Linkage Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP190100194
- ARC : LP190100194