Asian voyagers and First Nations people in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. This project aims to investigate little-known encounters between Asian voyagers and First Nations people in Australia’s Gulf

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Asian voyagers and First Nations people in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria. This project aims to investigate little-known encounters between Asian voyagers and First Nations people in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria through new archaeological investigations and Indigenous oral histories. The project expects to generate new knowledge of how First Nations and Asian people shaped coastal sites and one another, using a combination of precise carbon dating and artefact analyses with Indonesian collaborators and utilising First Nations accounts of Asian visits. Expected outcomes include more accurate chronologies for these interactions. Social and cultural benefits include a deeper understanding of Australia’s internationalised First Nations heritage and better conservation of threatened Indigenous coastal sites.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4501 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, Language and History. Lead: Dr Christopher Urwin