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Crafting country : Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia / Caroline Bird and James W. Rhoads.

Crafting country : Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia / Caroline Bird and James W. Rhoads.
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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
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