Murujuga水下考古发现记录古代淡水泉与河道遗址

研究团队由Flinders University、The University of Western Australia、James Cook University、University of York、Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation及其护林员合作组成；护林员接受科学潜水训练，并与考古学家共同定位和记录水下文化遗址。

At the heart of this discovery is a partnership between underwater archaeology researchers from Flinders University, The University of Western Australia, James Cook University and University of York (UK) with Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation and its Rangers, who trained as scientific divers and worked alongside archaeologists to locate and document the underwater cultural sites.

新记录的遗址包括一处与古代淡水泉相关的地点，以及一处与俯瞰古河道的岩石山丘相关的地点。

The newly documented sites reveal two distinct parts of this lost world. One site centres on a freshwater spring, a vital resource that would have been a place where people would congregate. The other is associated with a rocky hill overlooking an ancient river channel, showing how people used different parts of the landscape when the archipelago was still connected by dry land.

研究文章发表于Quaternary Science Reviews，题为“Underwater archaeological discoveries demonstrate raw material selection and transport of stone artefacts: new evidence from the submerged cultural landscape of Murujuga, Western Australia”，DOI为10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.110307。

The article – Underwater archaeological discoveries demonstrate raw material selection and transport of stone artefacts: new evidence from the submerged cultural landscape of Murujuga, Western Australia, by Jonathan Benjamin, Michael O’Leary, Louise Brooke, Chelsea Wiseman, John H. Fairweather, Wendy Van Duivenvoorde, John McCarthy, Wendy Reynen, Gerard Coker, Hiro Yoshida, Victoria Wade, Amy Stevens, Deb Shefi, Adam Black, Jeff E. Hansen, Malik Churnside, Richard Variakojis, Jo McDonald, Sean Ulm and Geoff Bailey – was published in Quaternary Science Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.110307

该项工作由Australian Research Council Future Fellowship program资助，另获ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures及Discovery Early Career Researcher Award支持。

Acknowledgements: The work was funded by the Australian Research Council through its Future Fellowship program (ARC Grant ID: FT230100462), with additional support provided by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) (ARC Grant ID: CE230100009) and a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) (ARC Grant ID: DE220100550).