[Aqualist] ARC Results for Quaternary Science (including archaeology)

[Simon Haberle]

Dear all,

Below is a list of successful ARC project broadly in Quaternary Science 
(including archaeology). This year saw 26 Discovery Projects (including 
3 APD's, 2 QEII's, 1 ARF and 1 APF). 14 projects where in Archaeology. 
There was also one successful Discovery Indigenous Research Development 
project with Michael-Shawn Fletcher as IRF. Three Linkage projects 
related to Archaeology were also successful.

Congratulations to all successful applicants, with special mention to 
those who will be employed on these projects:Jessica Thompson (APD), 
Martin Polkinghorne (APD), Maxime Aubert (APD),Philip Piper (ARF),Chris 
Clarkson (QEII), Nerilie Abram (QEII), Chris Johnson (APF).

Cheers, Simon
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2011 ARC Projects listed by Administrating University

Discovery Projects

The University of New South Wales

DP110102124: Prof Andrew Baker, Dr Stuart J Khan, Dr Alison Blyth

Title: Source - receptor analysis of lignin and lipid macromolecules in 
karst to quantify stalagmite biomarker proxies of vegetation and 
temperature change

2011, $120,000.00: 2012, $100,000.00: 2013, $100,000.00

Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Project Summary

Cave stalagmites are archives of past climate and environmental changes. 
This project seeks to develop two novel biomarkers, lignin and bacterial 
membrane lipids, from which we will generate new records of historic and 
prehistoric vegetation and temperature change.

DP11010282: Dr Judith H Field, Prof Glenn R Summerhayes

Title: The dynamics of human environment interactions in late 
Pleistocene and Holocene highland New Guinea: a study of the Ivane valley.

2011, $80,000.00: 2012, $70,000.00: 2013, $50,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

The project will investigate how access to starchy plant foods 
facilitated the movement of colonizing peoples into new environments, 
and was critical to survival in Sahul (Ice Age Australia/New Guinea). It 
will aid in understanding the dynamics of human responses to the impacts 
of climate change.

The University of Newcastle

DP110102185: Dr Russell N Drysdale, Dr John C Hellstrom, A/Prof Jonathan 
D Woodhead, Dr Roland Maas, Dr Silvia Frisia, Dr Giovanni Zanchetta, 
Prof Anthony E Fallick, Dr Mathieu Daeron, Prof Gerrit Lohmann, Prof 
Maureen Raymo, Prof Maria F Sanchez Goni, Prof Christoph Spotl, Dr Eric 
W Wolff

Title: When the ice melts: a new perspective on the causes of Quaternary 
glacial terminations

2011, $220,000.00: 2012, $200,000.00: 2013, $200,000.00

Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Project Summary

The project will assemble an unprecedented palaeoclimate time series 
extending back to 1.2 million years ago that will allow marine and ice 
core records to be placed onto an absolute time scale. This will allow 
testing of fundamental hypotheses on why the Earth's climate shifts from 
glacial to

The University of Sydney

DP110101997: Dr Dougald J O'Reilly, Dr Louise G Shewan, Dr Damian H 
Evans, Dr Kathryn M Domett, Prof Charles F Higham, Prof Elizabeth (Lisa) 
A Matisoo-Smith, Dr Thomas F Higham, Dr Sian E Halcrow, Dr Thomas O 
Pryce, Prof Rethy Chhem

Title: From Paddy to Pura: the origins of Angkor

2011, $140,000.00: 2012, $100,000.00: 2013, $100,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

This project explores the origin and rise of the state in ancient 
Southeast Asia. Through the investigation of sites in Cambodia and 
Thailand and using an array of innovative technologies, the research 
will contribute to the global investigation of humankind's trajectory 
toward ever-increasing complexity.

DP110101968: Dr Martin Polkinghorne (APD), Ms Janet G Douglas, A/Prof 
Christophe Pottier, Mr Touch Hab, Prof Robert L Brown.

Title: The Ateliers of Angkor: sculpture workshops of an empire 
(Cambodia, 9th to 13^th centuries CE)

2011, $100,000.00: 2012, $95,000.00: 2013, $90,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

Australia is dedicated to building the capacity of developing countries 
to look after their World Heritage sites. The collaboration of 
Australian, Cambodian and international researchers will expand these 
relationships and help to preserve Angkor's World Heritage value by 
revealing the work-sites where the world-famous sculptures were created.

La Trobe University

DP110100437: A/Prof Susan E Lawrence, Dr Peter W Davies

Title: Cultural landscapes of colonial water management in Victoria's 
Central Highlands

2011, $93,000.00: 2012, $122,000.00: 2013, $118,000.00: 2014, $129,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

The analysis of historical archaeological evidence of capturing, 
storing, transporting and using water and the associated environmental 
degradation will produce understandings of changes to land use, 
landscape and environment at a local and regional level providing 
historical context for modern debates about water sustainability and 
climate change.

Griffith University

DP110102635: Prof David M Lambert, Prof Eske Willerslev, Dr Michael C 
Westaway, Prof Elizabeth (Lisa) A Matisoo-Smith

Title: The origin of the first Australians

2011, $71,000.00: 2012, $72,000.00: 2013, $74,000.00

Anthropology

Project Summary

Using new DNA methods researchers aim to uncover the origins of the 
first Australians and to provide new evidence for when people came here 
and where they came from. This exciting work aims to determine some of 
the physical and metabolic characteristics of these early people.

James Cook University

DP110102291: A/Prof Rosita J Henry, A/Prof Russell E McGregor, Dr 
Michael A Wood, Dr Shelley M Greer, Prof Dr Ton Otto

Title: Objects of possession: artefact transactions in the wet tropics 
of North Queensland, 1870-2013

2011, $130,000.00: 2012, $100,000.00: 2013, $120,000.00

Anthropology

Project Summary

The project's research into artefact collecting will provide Indigenous 
peoples, museum curators and other community members with important 
insights into the history of Indigenous cultures in the Wet Tropics 
region. Our project will contribute to the development of innovative 
ways of presenting Indigenous peoples' connections with their cultural 
heritage.

DP110103069: Prof Christopher N Johnson (APF), Dr Mike I Letnic, Dr 
Menna E Jones, Prof Hamish I McCallum

Title: Keystone effects of Australia's top predators: dingoes, devils 
and biodiversity

2011, $280,000.00: 2012, $240,000.00: 2013, $300,000.00: 2014, 
$270,000.00: 2015, $270,000.00

Environmental science and management

Project Summary

This project will study the interactions of Australia's two largest 
predators, the dingo and Tasmanian devil, with other species. The 
project will help develop an understanding of the value

The University of Queensland

DP110105547: Dr Robert Bolhar, Dr Yuexing Feng

Title: Pilot study: sourcing basaltic stone artefacts in Hawaii by 
uranium-series and argon-argon (39Ar-40Ar) dating

2011, $55,900.00: 2012, $44,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

This project will develop breakthrough methodology for fingerprinting 
stone artefacts from Hawaii to reconstruct historic development of 
Pacific Island societies. Major outcomes will address National Research 
Priority Goal - Understanding our region and the world, through better 
understanding of societal development in our geographic neighbourhood.

DP110102864: Dr Christopher J Clarkson (QEII), Asst Prof Benjamin 
Marwick, Dr Lynley A Wallis, Dr Michael A Smith, Dr Richard L Fullagar

Title: Modern human origins and early behavioural complexity in 
Australia and Southeast Asia

2011, $144,000.00: 2012, $140,000.00: 2013. $200,000.00: 2014, 
$144,000.00: 2015, $125,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

This project tackles a fundamental issue in world prehistory: how and 
when did humans first cross from Southeast Asia into Australia. Three 
new archaeological excavations using novel methods of analysis will 
assess the nature of behavioural complexity and human evolution at the 
time when Australia was first colonised over 45,000 years ago.

DP110103081: Prof Dr James P Shulmeister, Dr Timothy J Cohen, Dr Kevin W 
Kiernan, Dr Craig A Woodward, Dr Timothy T Barrows, Dr Justine Kemp, Dr 
Kathryn E Fitzsimmons, A/Prof Douglas H Clark

Title: The last glaciation maximum climate conundrum and environmental 
responses of the Australian continent to altered climate states

2011, $120,000.00: 2012, $120,000.00: 2013, $120,000.00

Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Project Summary

This project will show how climate systems in south east Australia 
responded to large scale global change the last time this happened, 
which was about 21,000 years ago. By determining the climate response in 
Australia to this change, this project will help predict future response 
in rainfall and temperature to human-induced and natural climate change.

DP110101305: Dr Jessica C Thompson (APD), Prof Andrew S Cohen, A/Prof 
Ramon Arrowsmith, Dr David R Braun

Title: The emergence of early modern human behaviour and technology in 
Central Africa

2011, $160,000.00: 2012, $120,000.00: 2013, $140,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

This multidisciplinary project will build a detailed archaeological 
sequence in northern Malawi that is uniquely suited for testing 
hypotheses about the linkages between environment, demography, 
technology, and human behaviour in central Africa. This will provide a 
rare understanding of the processes that drove the emergence of our species.

The Flinders University of South Australia

DP110100726: Dr Gavin J Prideaux, Prof Dr Peter S Ungar, Dr Anthony J 
Olejniczak, Dr Linda K Ayliffe, Dr Alistair R Evans, Dr Natalie M Warburton

Title: Evolution in tooth and claw: exploring the relationship between 
the radiation of marsupial herbivores and late Cenozoic climate change

2011, $95,000.00: 2012, $95,000.00: 2013, $95,000.00

Evolutionary biology

Project Summary

Establishing how animals responded to past environmental changes is 
essential for understanding the ecology of modern species and managing 
them in light of contemporary climatic trends. By applying several novel 
analytical methods this project will unravel the links between the 
radiation of Australian marsupials and key stages in climatic evolution.

The University of Adelaide

DP110105187: Dr Jeremy J Austin, Dr Jaime H Gongora, Prof Terry L Hunt, 
Dr David A Burney, Dr Greger J Larson, Prof Keith D Dobney, Prof Jeremy 
F Taylor

Title: Reconstructing the human colonisation of the Pacific using modern 
and ancient chicken DNA

2011, $125,000.00: 2012, $110,000.00: 2013, $108,000.00

Evolutionary biology

Project Summary

We will reconstruct one of the last great human migrations, from Island 
Southeast Asia across the Pacific to Hawaii and Easter Island, using DNA 
from the domestic chicken, which was carried on the voyage. Ancient and 
modern DNA, and archaeological data will be used to reveal the source, 
route, timing, and whether contact was made with South America

DP110105549: Prof Alan Cooper, Asst Prof Eric G DeChaine, Dr Grant D 
Zazula, Prof Dr Joseph A Cook, Asst Prof Charles C Davis

Title: Comparative Paleogenomics of the Arctic Tundra Ecosystem: the 
genetic response of plants and animals to climate change

2011, $75,000.00: 2012, $50,000.00: 2013, $57,000.00

Evolutionary biology

Project Summary

This project will use DNA from deep-frozen seeds and bones 100,000 years 
old to record how species respond to climate change - by adapting and 
surviving or by shifting ranges and moving. Very large numbers of genes 
will be examined to identify changes across the genomes of four plant 
and two animal species, and contrast the responses to major climatic shifts.

University of Tasmania

DP110101950: Prof David M Bowman, Dr Thomas T Veblen, Prof Cathy Whitlock

Title: How has bushfire activity varied around the Southern Hemisphere 
over the last 10,000 years?

2011, $120,000.00: 2012, $110,000.00: 2013, $110,000.00: 2014, 
$110,000.00: 2015, $110,000.00

Ecology

Project Summary

We will determine the relative contribution of climate and human 
ignitions in driving bushfire activity around the Southern Hemisphere 
over the last 10,000 years. Such knowledge is crucial for ecologically 
sustainable fire management, resolving debates about past Aboriginal 
environmental impacts and understanding the risk posed by climate change.

The Australian National University

DP110102898 Dr Maxime Aubert (APD)

Title: A reliable absolute chronology for the Aboriginal rock art in the 
Kimberley, Western Australia

2011, $140,000.00: 2012, $85,000.00: 2013, $85,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

The Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is 
an internationally significant record of human occupation and cultural 
evolution. This project will determine the antiquity of human expression 
in one of the richest (and possibly the oldest) rock art regions in the 
world using advanced analytical techniques.

DP110101097: Prof Peter S Bellwood, Dr Hsiao-chun Hung, Dr Marc F 
Oxenham, Dr Philip J Piper (ARF)

Title: The archaeological and biological foundations of Southeast Asia, 
2500 to 1000 BC

2011, $170,000.00: 2012, $160,000.00: 2013, $288,000.00: 2014, 
$103,000.00: 2015, $103,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

This project investigates the origins and ancestral migrations of the 
populations of Southeast Asia. It focuses on the period around 2000 BC 
when 'Neolithic' societies, populations and languages spread across the 
region. The project will examine evidence for migration, food production 
and population ancestry in Vietnam, the Philippines and adjacent regions.

DP110103926: Prof Patrick De Deckker, Dr Stefan Schouten, Dr Sabine Schmidt

Title: Pre-industrial sea-surface temperatures in the Australian region

2011, $90,000.00: 2012, $70,000.00: 2013, $90,000.00

Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Project Summary

Humanity faces an enormous challenge as there is much debate on whether 
the world is warming up and when this started. This project will 
document sea-surface temperature records over the last millennium for 
the Australian region and provide data of critical importance to global 
climatology and oceanography that precede the instrumental record.

DP110103158: Dr Stephen M Eggins, Dr William R Howard, Asst Prof Baerbel 
Hoenisch, Prof Howard J Spero, Dr Gavin B Dunbar

Title: Calcification and shell chemistry response of Southern Ocean 
planktic foraminifers to ocean acidification and changing climates

2011, $60,000.00: 2012, $110,000.00: 2013, $110,000.00: 2014, $50,000.00

Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Project Summary

Plankton that form tiny calcium carbonate shells will be cultured to 
determine how they will respond to acidification of the Southern Ocean 
caused by rising CO2 in the atmosphere. The same experiments will be 
used to gauge from their fossil shells how the Southern Ocean has caused 
and responded to changing atmosphere CO2 over the last glacial climate cycle

DP110101161: Dr Michael K Gagan, Dr Nerilie J Abram (QEII), Prof Wahyoe 
S Hantoro, Dr Danny H Natawidjaja, Prof Chuan-Chou Shen, Prof Kerry 
Sieh, Prof Lawrence Edwards, Dr Hai Cheng, Dr Gavin A Schmidt

Title: Climate and natural hazards in Australasia: a comprehensive 
impact analysis of prehistoric droughts, great earthquakes, and the Toba 
super-eruption

2011, $180,000.00: 2012, $180,000.00: 2013, $200,000.00: 2014, 
$150,000.00: 2015, $125,000.00

Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Project Summary

Climate change, great earthquakes, and volcanic disasters pose untold 
risks for environmental, economic, and social harm in rapidly developing 
Australasia. This project's ground-breaking natural hazard risk analysis 
will showcase Australasia's research strengths and provide fundamental 
knowledge for visionary leadership in sustainable development.

DP110101415: Prof Dr Rainer Grun, Prof Matthew J Spriggs, Dr Richard A 
Armstrong, Dr Christophe Falgueres, Dr Bruno Maureille

Title: Understanding the migrations of prehistoric populations through 
direct dating and isotopic tracking of their mobility patterns

2011, $100,000.00: 2012, $130,000.00: 2013, $230,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

This project will use newly developed isotopic methods for the 
systematic analysis of prehistoric human remains. The assessment of 
their age and origins will give new insights in the timing of human 
evolution and the mobility of prehistoric humans in Central Europe and 
the Pacific.

DP110103193: Prof Ann M McGrath, Prof Peter M Veth

Title: The two lakes project: a research history of Lakes Mungo and Gregory

2011, $120,000.00: 2012, $150,000.00: 2013, $150,000.00

Historical studies

Project Summary

This project investigates the history of research relations between 
scientists and Traditional Owners at Lakes Mungo and Gregory. Connecting 
recent histories of agency and reconciliation with deep time, it will 
produce a publicly accessible narrative that increases national 
understanding of significant stories in the peopling of our continent.

DP110101357: Prof Susan L O'Connor, Dr Jack Fenner, Dr Janelle G 
Stevenson, Prof Keith D Dobney, Asst Prof Benjamin Marwick, Ms Emma J St 
Pierre, Dr Greger J Larson

Title: The archaeology of Sulawesi: a strategic island for understanding 
modern human colonization and interactions across our region

2011, $230,000.00: 2012, $230,000.00: 2013, $180,000.00

Archaeology

Project Summary

This project will investigate the archaeology and palaeoenvironment of 
Sulawesi over the past 50,000 years. Sulawesi is strategically 
positioned to test competing models of initial modern human expansion, 
and trajectories of cultural change and interaction, across our region. 
It also addresses the National Research Program goal of responding to 
climate change.

DP110105419: Prof Andrew P Roberts, Prof Patrick De Deckker, Dr Marc D 
Norman, Dr Paul Hesse

Title: Australian dust: its response to, and role in, climate change

2011, $180,000.00: 2012, $180,000.00: 2013, $180,000.00

Geochemistry

Project Summary

Atmospheric dust plumes can affect global climate, but the impact of 
Australian dust on climate is poorly known even though it is a major 
dust source. This project will study the magnetism of dust deposits in 
marine sediments to understand how Australian dust influences climate in 
order to better predict the influence of humans on future climate.

Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development

The Australian National University


DI110100019 : Dr Michael-Shawn Fletcher (IRF), Dr Simon G Haberle

Title : Tracking the response of the Australian climate to abrupt 
climate change

2011, $114,896.00: 2012, $84,846.00

Physical geography and environmental geoscience

Project Summary

This project will use cutting-edge climate proxy analyses to reconstruct 
the response of the Australian climate system to global climate change 
over the last 2,000 years. The results will provide significant insight 
in to how future global climate change will impact on social, biological 
and physical systems in Australia.

Linkage Projects

Macquarie University

LP110100180: A/Prof Patricia C Fanning, Prof Simon J Holdaway, Dr Justin 
I Shiner, Dr Craig R Sloss, Dr Celia J Brockwell, Dr Janelle G 
Stevenson, Dr Fiona Petchey, Prof Geoffrey N Bailey

Title: Enhancing cultural heritage management for mining operations: a 
multi-disciplinary approach

2011, $140,000.00: 2012, $145,000.00: 2013, $135,000.00

Archaeology

Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): Rio Tinto Alcan

Project Summary

This project will apply a multi-disciplinary, research-based focus to 
cultural heritage management on mining leases in the Cape York region. 
It will improve relations between the mine operators and Indigenous 
Traditional Owners and allow them to strengthen connections with the 
past, while at the same time providing an enduring legacy for future 
generations.

Murdoch University

LP110100456: Prof James F Warren, Dr Wendy Van Duivenvoorde, Dr Tana Li, 
Dr Alistair G Paterson, Dr Gwyn Campbell, Prof Anthony J Reid

Title: Southeast Asia's global economy, climate and the impact of 
natural hazards from the 10^th to 21st centuries

2011, $130,968.00: 2012, $145,593.00: 2013, $123,714.00

Historical studies

Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): McGill University, Western 
Australian Maritime Museum

Project Summary

This project's scope is uniquely broad and multidisciplinary, comprising 
collaborations between historians, archaeologists, seismologists and 
others. The aim is to analyse the development of south east Asia's vast 
and sophisticated economic system within the context of 
human-environment interactions, over a scale and time period which has 
been inadequately investigated.

The Australian National University

LP110100623: Prof Howard Morphy, Dr Maria L Nugent, Dr Ian J Coates, Dr 
Michael P Pickering, Dr Lissant M Bolton

Title: Engaging objects: Indigenous communities, museum collections and 
the representation of Indigenous histories

2011, $270,000.00: 2012, $100,000.00: 2013, $85,000.00: 2014, $70,000.00

Curatorial and related studies

Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): British Museum, National Museum 
of Australia

Project Summary

This project centres on the research process leading up to a major 
exhibition in Australia of the British Museum's Australian Indigenous 
collections. By exploring the historical and representational issues 
evoked in creating this exhibition, new understandings of these 
collections and their historical and contemporary significance will result.