Successful competitive grants application

Together with our partners, the Australian National University (ANU) Canberra, the University College London (UCL) and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta, we were successful with our competitive grants application 'Investigating the world's first maritime network in Pleistocene Wallacea'. The Australian Research Council (ARC) will support the project with A$570.000 in the years 2024-2026. The project investigates the world's first maritime exchange networks in eastern Indonesia. Around 15-16.000 years ago, people in this island landscape began to exchange obsidian raw materials and artifacts. These networks laid the foundation for the later highly specialized seafaring cultures of Maritime Southeast Asia.

For more information: https://www.dainst.org/forschung/projekte/maritime-netzwerke-im-pleistozaenen-wallacea/5645