Investigating the ancient settlement and food production systems of the Mithaka people, Channel Country

RGSQ Lecture Series

Professor Michael Westaway    

Archaeological research in Mithaka country, in Australia’s extraordinary desert channels is providing an exciting new insight into how the Mithaka people sustained large populations in this extraordinary cultural landscape. The research has generated important new insights into how we might think about defining the nature of ancient Mithaka society, with evidence of village settlements, large scale harvesting and aquaculture emerging from a large multidisciplinary project recovering new ethnohistoric, archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence.