ISBN |
9781743326169 |
Author |
(author) Bird, Caroline (Caroline F. M.) |
Title |
Crafting country : Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia / Caroline Bird and James W. Rhoads. |
Publisher and/or associated date/s |
The University Of Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney University Press, [2020] |
©2020. |
Description |
xxiv, 319 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 26 cm. |
Series |
Tom Austen Brown studies in Australasian archaeology |
Note |
"First and foremost, we acknowledge the Nyiyaparli people and the Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation, who have consistently supported research into the archaeology of their country and the lives of their ancestors. We particularly thank the members of the Nyiyaparli Heritage Subcommittee."--Page [ix]. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Based on ten years of surveys and excavations in Nyiyaparli country in the eastern Chichester Ranges, north-west Australia, Crafting Country provides a unique synthesis of Holocene archaeology in the Pilbara region. The analysis of about 1000 sites, including surface artefact scatters and 19 excavated rock shelters, as well as thousands of isolated artefacts, takes a broad view of the landscape, examining the distribution of archaeological remains in time and space. Heritage compliance archaeology commonly focuses on individual sites, but this study reconsiders the evidence at different scales – at the level of artefact, site, locality, and region – to show how Aboriginal people interacted with the land and made their mark on it. Crafting Country shows that the Nyiyaparli ‘crafted’ their country, building structures and supplying key sites with grindstones, raw material and flaked stone cores. In so doing, they created a taskscape of interwoven activities linked by paths of movement. |
Subjects |
Nyiyaparli people (A50) (WA SF51-13) |
Historic sites -- Western Australia -- Chichester Ranges |
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Western Australia -- Chichester Range |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Western Australia -- Chichester Range |
Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Antiquities |
Archaeology -- Western Australia -- Chichester Ranges |
Petroglyphs -- Western Australia -- Chichester Ranges |
Rock paintings -- Western Australia -- Chichester Ranges |
Chichester Range (WA West Pilbara SF50-11) |
Victoria -- Antiquities |
Pilbara (W.A.) -- Antiquities |
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Rhoads, James W. (author) |
Other Corporate Bodies |
Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation |
Fortescue Metals Group |
Series |
Tom Austen Brown studies in Australasian archaeology |
Call number |
2020.176 |