[Aqualist] ARC Linkage outcomes

[Simon Haberle]

Dear all,

The ARC Linkage results have been posted today (2010 Round 2 for funding 
commencing in July 2011). The successful proposals are listed below 
encompassing Quaternary research including archaeology. Well done to all 
those who were successful (all archaeology related).

Cheers, Simon

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*The Australian National University*

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*LP110201128 *Dr Celia J Brockwell, Dr Janelle G Stevenson

*Project Title: From prehistory to history: landscape and cultural 
change on the South Alligator River, Kakadu National Park*

2011 $30,000.00; 2012 $66,000.00; 2013 $66,000.00; 2014 $30,000.00

*Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s)*

Kakadu National Park

*Project Summary*

This project explores the archaeology, history and palaeoecology of the 
Kakadu floodplains to better understand social and environmental changes 
that have taken place in this landscape from the mid-Holocene to 
historical times. The outcome will be a contextualised understanding of 
potential climate change impacts against a history of past change.

*LP110200742 *Prof Howard Morphy, Dr Michael A Smith, Dr Libby Robin, Dr 
June Ross, Ms Margo Neale

*Project Title: Alive with the Dreaming! Songlines of the Western Desert*

2011 $100,000.00; 2012 $200,000.00; 2013 $221,500.00; 2014 $205,000.00; 
2015 $83,500.00

*Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s)*

KANYIRNINPA JUKURRPA, Ananguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation, 
Archaeological & Heritage Management Solutions, Department of 
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, NPY 
WOMEN'S COUNCIL, National Museum of Australia, The Palya Fund

*Project Summary*

Songlines that map the Australian continent are of iconic significance 
in the national cultural heritage of Indigenous and non-Indigenous 
Australians. The vision of Western Desert elders and artists is to share 
with the wider community an understanding of the scale, spiritual and 
environmental significance of the Tjukurpa Songlines of Australia.

*LP110200803 *Prof Nicolas Peterson, Mr Michael Cawthorn, Mrs Helen 
Wilmot, Dr John K Henderson, Dr Anna-Maria B Kenny (APDI)

*Project Title: Rescuing Carl Strehlow's Indigenous cultural heritage 
legacy: the neglected German tradition of Arandic ethnography*

2011 $44,500.00; 2012 $86,500.00; 2013 $86,000.00; 2014 $44,000.00

*Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s)*

Central Land Council, Strehlow Research Centre

*Project Summary*

In collaboration with Arrernte and Luritja speakers, this project will 
result in the translation of Carl Strehlow's 10,000 word German 
dictionary and other major, unavailable cultural heritage materials and 
at the same time incorporate the work of the neglected tradition of 
German humanistic anthropology into scholarship on Central Australia.

*LP110200184 *Prof Peter M Veth, A/Prof Mark Staniforth, Dr Ian D 
MacLeod, Ms Vicki L Richards, Mr Anthony J Barham

*Project Title: The Australian historic shipwreck protection project: 
the in situ preservation and reburial of a colonial trader - Clarence 
(1850)*

2011 $150,000.00; 2012 $210,000.00; 2013 $100,000.00; 2014 $40,000.00

*Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s)*

Australian National Maritime Museum, Department of Sustainability, 
Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Department of the Chief 
Minister , NSW Department of Planning, Norfolk Island Museum, Parks and 
Wildlife Service, Tasmania, QLD Department of Environment and Resource 
Management, THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY, 
Victoria Department of Planning and Community Development, Western 
Australian Museum

*Project Summary*

The project will use cutting-edge technology to study and preserve an 
early colonial shipwreck at risk and develop a world-class strategy for 
the reburial and preservation of endangered historic shipwrecks. The 
project will help develop new national policy and technical guidelines 
for site managers of historic shipwrecks and offer new insights into 
colonial shipbuilding.

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*The University of Sydney*

*LP110200041 *Prof Iain D McCalman, Dr Stephanie C Anderson, Dr Jude P 
Philp, Dr Michael B Davis (APDI), Dr Nigel P Erskine, Mr Michael Crayford.

*Project Title: Cultures of Coast and Sea: maritime environmental, 
cultural and ethnographic histories of north-east Australia, 1770-2010*

2011 $126,418.50; 2012 $246,162.50; 2013 $218,699.50; 2014 $98,955.50

*Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s)*

Australian National Maritime Museum, Queensland Museum, Silentworld 
Foundation

*Project Summary*

Using new cross-disciplinary approaches and methods, this collaboration 
between university scholars, museum curators and a philanthropic 
foundation will study the impact of maritime and marine environmental 
and cultural change on the peoples and habitats of the Great Barrier 
Reef and the Torres Strait from the eighteenth century to the present.

*Monash University*

*LP110200927 *Dr Bruno David, Dr Ian J McNiven, Dr Christopher J 
Clarkson, Prof Jean-Michel Geneste, Prof Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Dr 
Hugues Plisson

*Project Title: Archaeology of rock art in Jawoyn country, western 
Arnhem Land*

2011 $50,000.00; 2012 $125,000.00; 2013 $150,000.00; 2014 $125,000.00; 
2015 $50,000.00

*Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s)*

Jawoyn Association Aboriginal Corporation

*Project Summary*

This project will systematically study the rock art of Jawoyn country, 
Arnhem Land. It aims to reveal the age and associated archaeological 
contexts of some of Australia's most popular rock art traditions, 
feeding the results back to both academic circles and the nation's high 
exposure domestic and international tourism market.