Archaeology and Natural History of the Mithaka Country (ARC Linkage Project administered by Griffith University) (2019-2024)
Abstract
Mithaka country incorporates the highly significant Channel Country on the eastern edge of Australia's arid centre. Our preliminary research identified more than 70 large site complexes that provide critical insights on how the Mithaka people adapted to this unique environment and took part in Australia's most extensive long distance trade systems based around pituri. By studying the archaeological landscape, the artefacts and an extensive in situ skeletal record in the context of a detailed palaeoenvironmental study, we will provide a new cultural-environmental history of this neglected landscape and thus provide the Mithaka with multiple strands of connection to their ancestral land and culture.
