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

Bird, Caroline/ W. Rhoads, James

Sydney University Press（2020/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 344 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781743326169
• DDC分類 994.0089915

Full Description

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.

Contents

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