Dating Murujuga's Rock Art: new scientific approaches

约会穆鲁朱加的岩石艺术：新的科学方法

• 批准号: LP190100724
• 负责人: Prof Jo McDonald
• 金额: $ 97万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-03-15 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP190100724
• 关键词: Dating; Murujuga; Rock; Art; new

The Dampier Archipelago is on Australia's National Heritage List because of its significant rock art and stone features. Known as Murujuga to its traditional custodians, this land- and seascape has over 1 million art works. While the scientific and cultural significance of this area is acknowledged, we still know little about the age of this landscape, the regional palaeoclimatology, and the timing and intensity of rock art production since Aboriginal people moved into this region 50,000 years ago. This project will develop new scientific approaches to direct-dating engravings and stone features, reconstruct climate from geological proxies, and model voyaging opportunities as this unique cultural estate transformed to an archipelago.

丹皮尔群岛因其重要的岩石艺术和石头特征而被列入澳大利亚国家遗产名录。这片陆地和海洋景观被其传统守护者称为 Murujuga，拥有超过 100 万件艺术品。尽管该地区的科学和文化意义已得到公认，但我们对这一景观的年代、区域古气候以及自 5 万年前原住民迁入该地区以来岩画创作的时间和强度仍然知之甚少。该项目将开发新的科学方法来直接确定雕刻和石头特征的年代，根据地质代理重建气候，并模拟这个独特的文化庄园转变为群岛时的航行机会。