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Culturally Modified Trees and Bark and Wooden Material Culture From Yagara Country, Southeast Queensland, Australia: A Preliminary Overview of Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper outlines preliminary results from our multimethod research about Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) and associated bark and wooden material culture in Yagara Country in southeast Queensland. Methods employed include historical source and modern database analysis, archaeological field surveys, semi‐structured interviews with Yagara ...
Kate Greenwood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐Century Grindstone Quarrying at Brumby Yard, Queensland

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The timing and duration of prehistoric quarrying is poorly understood within Australia, with limited ages available for quarries owing to the difficulties in dating these rock‐sediment constructions. We report the first multi‐sample, optically stimulated luminescence ages from quarry pits in Brumby Yard, an Aboriginal grindstone quarry ...
Kieran McGee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Karribolknahnan kunred la kundulk: Contemporary Culturally Modified Trees in Mirarr Country, Northern Territory

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Mirarr Kunred (Country) in the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory, Australia, a particular form of scarred, culturally modified tree (CMT) is actively being created as Bininj (Aboriginal people) harvest bark to be used as art canvases (dolobbo).
Mia Dardengo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population and age structure [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper provides a contemporary overview of the changing size and composition of Australia\u27s Indigenous population. The paper is structured around six key demographic and geographic features of the Indigenous population: Age structure: The ...
Nicholas Biddle
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Indigenous Peoples

open access: yes, 2016
The Inspection Panel was created in 1993 by the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank to receive complaints submitted by people suffering harm allegedly caused by World Bank projects. This experience provides important lessons for both the Bank and for the global development community
openaire   +2 more sources

Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
wiley   +1 more source

Arboreal Alterations: An Introduction to Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) in Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally modified trees (CMTs) were once ubiquitous throughout the Australian landscape but they have been significantly affected by tree‐clearing practices associated with pastoralism, residential expansion and forestry. These, in addition to effects of bushfires and floods have had a massive impact on the survival of both dead and living ...
Sue O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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