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Crafting Country
Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia
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Crafting Country
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.
This unique study of Aboriginal archaeology in the Pilbara region examines how the Nyiyaparli people interacted with and 'crafted' the land.
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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.
Series: Tom Austen Brown Studies in Australasian Archaeology
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Crafting Country is praised for making the archaeology of the Pilbara more accessible and filling a vital gap in understanding the region. Reviewers commend the book's approach to stone artefact analysis, highlighting its emphasis on landscape-scale methods and the consideration of temporal processes. It is deemed essential for consultants and academics focusing on the Pilbara area.
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ISBN: 9781743326169
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 April 2020
Country: Australia
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 344
About the Author
Caroline Bird is a consulting archaeologist with Archae-aus and an Honorary Research Associate with the Western Australian Museum. She specialises in stone artefact analysis.
James W. Rhoads is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Australian Museum, Sydney. His main area of interest is in Papua New Guinea ethnoarchaeology
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