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Crafting Country: Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia: Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology

Autor Caroline Bird, James W. Rhoads
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781743326169
ISBN-10: 1743326165
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Sydney University Press
Colecția Sydney University Press
Seria Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology


Recenzii

"Crafting Country is an important step in making the archaeology of the Pilbara more accessible...[it] fills an important gap in our understanding" -- Simon Wyatt-Spratt -- Lithic Technology
'Using compliance datasets, Bird and Rhoads have begun to demonstrate what an effective set of methods for stone artefact analyses might look like where landscape/scale approaches are privileged, and temporal aggregative processes are not ignored. Indeed, this book should be a staple for consultants and academics working in the Pilbara for years to come.' -- Kane Ditchfield -- Archaeology in Oceania

Cuprins

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Peter Hiscock

1. Background: compliance archaeology and research in the Pilbara
2. Research framework
3. Natural environment and cultural contexts
4. Surface artefact scatters
5. Rockshelters
6. Site and landscape
7. Crafting country

References
Index
Appendices