ORCID Profile
0000-0002-9379-2996
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University of Western Australia
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Archaeological Science | Surface Processes | Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Geology | Geochronology
Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology |
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2002
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774302000057
Abstract: An extraordinary engraved bird track was located in the Weaber Range of the Keep River region of Northern Territory, Australia, in July 2000. This engraved track is dissimilar to most other ex les in Australian rock-art, differing in shape, size and detail from the thousands of engraved, painted or beeswax depictions of bird tracks known from sites across the continent. Importantly, it also differs in technique from other engraved tracks in the Keep River region, having been rubbed and abraded to a smooth finish. We explore three approaches to the engraved track's significance, that it: a) depicts the track of an extinct bird species b) relates to Aboriginal beliefs regarding Dreaming Beings and c) is a powerful aesthetic achievement that reflects rare observation of emu tracks. We conclude that the Weaber bird track engraving most probably represents a relatively recent visual expression of ancient Aboriginal thoughts that have been transmitted through the centuries via story-telling and rock-art. This discussion highlights problems of assigning identification and meaning to ancient art but also suggests that aspects of history may be passed across generations for much longer than is commonly realized.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2021
Abstract: This paper explores identity and the recursive impacts of cross-cultural colonial encounters on in iduals, cultural materials, and cultural practices in 20th-century northern Australia. We focus on an assemblage of cached metal objects and associated cultural materials that embody both Aboriginal tradition and innovation. These cultural materials were wrapped in paperbark and placed within a ring of stones, a bundling practice also seen in human burials in this region. This ‘cache' is located in close proximity to rockshelters with rich, superimposed Aboriginal rock art compositions. However, the cache shelter has no visible art, despite available wall space. The site shows the utilisation of metal objects as new raw materials that use traditional techniques to manufacture a ground edge metal axe and to sharpen metal rods into spears. We contextualise these objects and their hypothesised owner(s) within narratives of invasion/contact and the ensuing pastoral history of this region. Assemblage theory affords us an appropriate theoretical lens through which to bring people, places, objects, and time into conversation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 06-11-2017
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190607357.013.31
Abstract: The multiple Aboriginal rock art traditions of Australia’s Kimberley contain primary evidence of commensal human–plant relationships that we term ‘ecoscaping’. Produced over tens of thousands of years, Kimberley rock art contains up to 25% of sites with plant depictions in some of its earliest traditions, which date to at least 16,000 years ago. A finite range of food and medicinal plants are depicted (yams, tubers, fruits, as well as paint-soaked grasses pressed onto rock walls) in structured iconographic and landscape contexts. Very few gatherer-hunter rock arts globally offer such plentiful, detailed, and archaeologically and palaeoenvironmentally contextualized evidence of plants in both daily life and symbolic thought. We suggest that this rock art is evidence of an entangled landscape that combines geography, hydrology, biological vitality, and anthropological dynamics—an ‘ecoscaping’ that differs from more deterministic formulations such as ‘domiculture’. Kimberley plant rock art is best understood as a key artefact and practice in how people managed the often extreme environmental and concomitant social change the Kimberley has experienced.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2004
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 08-03-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2019
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 06-1995
DOI: 10.2307/3889274
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 06-1998
DOI: 10.2307/3889261
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-10-2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 11-12-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2008
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-05-2021
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21863
Abstract: Archaeologists often wonder how and when rock shelters formed, yet their origins and antiquity are almost never systematically investigated. Here we present a new method to determine how and when in idual boulders and rock shelters came to lie in their present landscape settings. We do so through 3D laser (LiDAR) mapping, illustrating the method by ex le of the Borologa Aboriginal site complex in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Through a combination of geomorphological study and high‐resolution 3D modelling, in idual blocks of rock are refitted and repositioned t680their originating cliff‐line. Preliminary cosmogenic nuclide ages on exposed vertical cliff faces and associated detached boulders above the Borologa archaeological sites signal very slow detachment rates for the mass movements of large blocks down the Drysdale Valley slopes, suggesting relative landscape stability over hundreds of thousands of years (predating the arrival of people). These findings offer hitherto unknown details of the pace of regional landscape evolution and move us toward a better understanding of patterns of human occupation in a context of relatively stable rock outcrops both within the sites and across the region.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-1997
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00085847
Abstract: Antiquity last year reported a startlingly old series of dates from Jinmium in tropical north Australia. At Jinmium are old rock-engravings, the pecked cups or cupules that are widespread in Australia. This study of the Jinmium cupules goes beyond that immediate topic to broader issues.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-04-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-08-2020
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 06-09-2022
DOI: 10.22459/TA55.2022
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 07-02-2020
Abstract: Radiocarbon-dated mud wasp nests provide a terminal Pleistocene age estimate for an Australian Aboriginal rock art style.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-1997
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00084994
Abstract: In South Africa, as in so many regions, the world of dirt archaeology in shelter floors and of rock art on shelter walls, have also been rather separate as domains of study. In research at Rose Cottage Cave, bridges are being made to link both strands of evidence of the forager social strategies from which both derive.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-08-2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2003
DOI: 10.2307/3557117
Location: United States of America
Start Date: 2006
End Date: 2007
Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2016
End Date: 2021
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 05-2016
End Date: 12-2021
Amount: $865,905.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2018
End Date: 04-2024
Amount: $880,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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