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Snake and Moon ‘Right Way Marriage’ Stories on Stone and Bark

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In northwest Australia, boab trees hold significant cultural values for First Nations people. Their leaves, bark, roots and nuts are important as traditional resources for food, medicine, fibre, water and shade and serve as reference points in the landscape. Some of the tree trunks are inscribed with images and symbols which tell of events and
Jane Balme   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium

open access: green, 1980
Ellen Carol DuBois   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

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

Dendroglyphs, Pictographs and Social Identity in the Wet Tropics Rainforest of Northeastern Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines rock art and dendroglyphs in the Wet Tropics of northeast Australia to investigate their relationship to linguistic social identity. The region was selected for its complex socio‐cultural landscape, marked by a diversity of languages in a distinct, relatively small area.
Alice Buhrich
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

An Impossible Utopia: People’s Art and the Cultural Revolution

open access: yes, 2014
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period of the People’s Republic of China (1966-1976) was crucial in the creation of modern-day China. The material culture of that period mirrors the turbulent political activity of students and the directives of
Reynolds, Molly E.
core   +1 more source

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