Anne Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0683-2997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Just data? Legacy issues, ethics and consent in publication
This Editorial is a reflection on some of the issues arising from the growing trend in archaeology to re-evaluate legacy collections and data. This trend has no doubt been driven (in part) by the d
Working as Indigenous archaeologists: Reckoning New Paths Between Past and present Lives
It is more than half a century since Ros Langford (1983) called for Australia’s archaeologists—all non-Indigenous at that time—to stop treating heritage as an historic commodity. Langford (1983:2) ...
Challenging Narratives: Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing at the Calga Aboriginal Women’s Site, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia
The Calga Women’s Site is an ancient rock engraving site near the town of Gosford on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The site holds special significance for Aboriginal women in this area. It is one of many rock art and occupation places in a complex cultural landscape. There are multiple narratives for the Calga cultural landscape. One of these is ancient and speaks of Creator and Ancestral Beings, Lore and Law. Another is modern…
‘Up to you … and your facile pens’: 50 Years of Australian Archaeology
Can you teach it if you cannot see it? Finding ‘the Anthropocene’ and enhancing its visibility in the NSW geography syllabus
To Whom Can We Turn?” Evaluating the Adequacy of Police and Coroner Investigations into Questionable Deaths
Canada has witnessed thousands of Indigenous testimonies about the suspicious deaths and disappearances of their loved ones and the deficient or non-existent investigations thereafter. Despite growing attention to Indigenous deaths in inquiries and government apologies, there remains little information at ground level for families on how to challenge investigative practices and few cases that have done so successfully. Our research began when we …
Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria
Resurrecting the power in the stones, developing a modern narrative of the agency and sentience of powerful stones, and recreating shared knowledge encounters at Gummingurru and its associated site ar…
Prior to European settlement, the Gummingurru stone arrangement was a place of man‐making and knowledge sharing for Aboriginal people from across vast areas of what is now southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia. One of the most powerful sites of ritual and exchange en‐route to the Bunya Mountains, Gummingurru was the place at which boys became adults, were assigned “yurees” (totems), and given Law to inform their roles in soc…
Challenging metanarratives: The past lives in the present
It is over 35 years since Langford (1983) called for archaeologists to recognise Aboriginal people's right to control their heritage. Although there have been enormous changes since then in the way Australian archaeologists engage with Traditional Owners in the practice of archaeology and cultural heritage management, several metanarratives that privilege Western knowledge constructs over Indigenous ways of knowing persist. Although such metanarr…
Habitus of informality in small scale society agrifood chains – filling the knowledge gap using a socio-culturally focused value chain analysis tool
Western business management literature tells us that agrifood market systems are based on formalised (e.g. contract-based), economic and demand-driven supply and value chain approaches and that in developing economies, growth and development need to be similarly underpinned. Social sciences literature, on the other hand, recognises the existence of small-scale, informal, socio-culturally driven societies in which local livelihoods dominate. In th…
Traditional thinking: The impact of international aid on social structures and cultural traditions in agrifood chains in Tonga and Solomon Islands
Aid agencies provide significant funding for the development of modern market systems in subsistence societies. Despite the advantages generated by aid partnerships, aid agencies are often unsuccessful in producing the market changes they aim to realise. This project investigates barriers to the development of demand-driven agrifood market systems at the local level in Solomon Islands and Tonga. We demonstrate that performances that imply a readi…
Deliberate selection of rocks in the construction of the Gummingurru Stone Arrangement Site Complex, Darling Downs, Queensland
This paper uses statistical analyses to examine the hypothesis that the creators of the Gummingurru Stone Arrangement Site Complex, southeast Queensland, deliberately selected rocks, based on size and shape, for the production of motifs at the site. As Gummingurru is an Aboriginal site, the literature that frames the research concerns Aboriginal cultural Law and worldviews. However, because the data are archaeological measurements, quantitative s…
Counter-mapping theory and its application to a constantly changing Aboriginal stone arrangement site
In pre-contact times, the Gummingurru Aboriginal stone arrangement site on Queensland’s Darling Downs was a complex locale of motif creation and constant maintenance, social alliance formation, male initiation and cultural education. Since European settlement, the arrangements have undergone a raft of changes, yet the site remains a place of constant narration based around regular recreation of motifs, alliance-making and sharing of cultural expe…
Managing a contested cultural heritage place on K’gari (Fraser Island), Queensland, Australia
Contestation of culturally significant places is a phenomenon that is regularly encountered in heritage management. Takky Wooroo (Indian Head), on World Heritage–inscribed K’gari (Fraser Island), is no exception. The research presented in this paper uses a multi‐vocal methodology situated within the constructivist paradigm of “Indigenous archaeologies” to evaluate contested evidence for cultural and historical significance at Takky Wooroo.Much of…
Kakatungutanta to Warrie Outcamp: 40,000 Years in Nyiyaparli country
Kakatungutanta to Warrie Outcamp: 40,000 years in Nyiyaparli country." Australian Archaeology, 82(1), pp. 88–89
Discarding the evidence: The place of natural resources stewardship in the creation of the Peel Island Lazaret Midden, Moreton Bay, southeast Queensland
The effects of sampling on the analysis of archeological molluscan remains: A quantitative approach
Keeping Country: A Web-Based Approach To Indigenous Outreach In Cultural Heritage Management
Cultural heritage management (CHM) of Indigenous places is the dominant area of professional practice in Australian archaeology, yet relatively few Indigenous Australians take up a career in the sector. The internet is providing new and effective avenues for Indigenous outreach programmes. This paper describes a self-contained, web-enabled, free-to-user cultural heritage training programme designed in consultation with, and for the use of, Indige…
Gummingurru –A community archaeology knowledge journey
The Gummingurru stone arrangement site complex on the Darling Downs of Queensland (Qld), Australia, was originally an initiation site attended by Aboriginal people from many parts of southeast Qld and northeast New South Wales en route to the triennial intergroup gatherings in the nearby Bunya Mountains. The activities at Gummingurru and the Bunya Mountains included knowledge sharing, alliance-making, trade and exchange. In recent times the journ…
Mapping an archaeology of the present: Counter-mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site, southeast Queensland, Australia
In 2010 a large project to map the 5ha Gummingurru stone arrangement site on the Darling Downs, southeast Queensland, Australia, was completed; 9368 rocks were plotted and recorded and many of these rocks make up the over 20 motifs on the site. But Gummingurru is a site that is more than rocks. It is part of a large cultural landscape which includes neighboring sites, resource tree plantings, scarred trees, story places and memoryscapes (Lavers, …
Aboriginal Epistemologies and Interpretations of Art and Place on the Blue Tier Northeast Tasmania
Recent disputes between archaeologists and land managers over the authenticity and heritage value of ‘petroglyphs’ on the Blue Tier in northeast Tasmania have focused on the ‘authorship’ of the rock markings. For Aboriginal traditional owners of the Tier the authorship of the marks is indisputable – they were made by ancestral beings and are therefore neither anthropogenic nor natural. However, accepting such explanations confronts the management…
Constant Resurrection: The Trihybrid Model and the Politicisation of Australian Archaeology
Most Australian archaeologists would say that Birdsell's trihybrid model is defunct and no longer worth considering. Unfortunately, this is not the view of many in the Australian public. In his revisionist history of Australia, the conservative commentator Keith Windschuttle still refers to this model, and, potentially more seriously, writers with a particular political agenda to deny Aboriginal people legitimate Native Title rights have also ado…
Power relations and community involvement in landscape-based cultural heritage management practice: An Australian case study
Collaborative conservation between Aboriginal people and archaeologists in Australia presents new and innovative opportunities for community control in cultural heritage management practice. Community approaches to heritage emphasise cultural landscapes and Indigenous relationships to land and sea. In this paper we illustrate the value of a community‐led cultural heritage management project in a case study from North Stradbroke Island, southeast …
Archaeology, Cultural Landscapes, and Indigenous Knowledge in Australian Cultural Heritage Management Legislation and Practice
Marine reservoir corrections for Moreton Bay, Australia
We present the first direct assessment of marine reservoir effects in the Moreton Bay region using radiocarbon dating of known‐age, pre‐AD 1950, shell samples from the east coast of Stradbroke Island and archaeological shell/charcoal pairs from Peel Island in Moreton Bay. The resulting ΔR value of 9±1914C years for the open ocean conforms to regional values established for northeast Australia of 12±1014C years. Negative ΔR values of −65±6114C yea…
Archaeological evidence for population change in the middle to late Holocene in southeastern Australia
The Great 'Intensification Debate: Its History And Place In Australian Archaeology
The 'Intensification Debate' of the 1980s was a critical period in the investigation of Australian prehistory. It focused attention and research upon questions of change and dynamics within hunter-gatherer societies of the past, especially regarding demographic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors. In this way it was a reaction to previous static and functionalist approaches which emphasised the passive nature of hunter-gatherer societies and…
Holocene environments and prehistoric site patterning in the Victorian Mallee
North‐western Victoria is a semi‐arid region of low sand dunes and dense mallee vegetation cover. Except for possible hearth sites in Pleistocene deposits at Lake Tyrrell, Aboriginal occupation of this area, known as ‘the Mallee’, does not appear to have occurred until the terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene, when the region was much less arid than at present. Occupation then was restricted to the northern part of the Mallee; more widespread occu…
Gunumbah: Archaeological and Aboriginal meanings at a quarry site on Moreton Island, southeast Queensland
Cape Moreton - Gunumbah - on Moreton Island, Queensland, is an area of high cultural value to the Ngugi traditional owners, and has considerable archaeological significance. The extensive area of stone outcrops is the largest raw material source for stone artefact manufacture in Moreton Bay, yet there is no evidence for extraction activities or stone working associated directly with the outcrops. Stone working is only visible at two nearby worksh…
Power relations and community involvement in landscape-based cultural heritage management practice: An Australian case study
Collaborative conservation between Aboriginal people and archaeologists in Australia presents new and innovative opportunities for community control in cultural heritage management practice. Community approaches to heritage emphasise cultural landscapes and Indigenous relationships to land and sea. In this paper we illustrate the value of a community‐led cultural heritage management project in a case study from North Stradbroke Island, southeast …
Mapping an archaeology of the present: Counter-mapping at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site, southeast Queensland, Australia
In 2010 a large project to map the 5ha Gummingurru stone arrangement site on the Darling Downs, southeast Queensland, Australia, was completed; 9368 rocks were plotted and recorded and many of these rocks make up the over 20 motifs on the site. But Gummingurru is a site that is more than rocks. It is part of a large cultural landscape which includes neighboring sites, resource tree plantings, scarred trees, story places and memoryscapes (Lavers, …
Gummingurru –A community archaeology knowledge journey
The Gummingurru stone arrangement site complex on the Darling Downs of Queensland (Qld), Australia, was originally an initiation site attended by Aboriginal people from many parts of southeast Qld and northeast New South Wales en route to the triennial intergroup gatherings in the nearby Bunya Mountains. The activities at Gummingurru and the Bunya Mountains included knowledge sharing, alliance-making, trade and exchange. In recent times the journ…
Marine reservoir corrections for Moreton Bay, Australia
We present the first direct assessment of marine reservoir effects in the Moreton Bay region using radiocarbon dating of known‐age, pre‐AD 1950, shell samples from the east coast of Stradbroke Island and archaeological shell/charcoal pairs from Peel Island in Moreton Bay. The resulting ΔR value of 9±1914C years for the open ocean conforms to regional values established for northeast Australia of 12±1014C years. Negative ΔR values of −65±6114C yea…
The Politics of Reintegrating Australian Aboriginal and American Indian Indigenous Knowledge into Resource Management: The Dynamics of Resource Appropriation and Cultural Revival
Counter-mapping theory and its application to a constantly changing Aboriginal stone arrangement site
In pre-contact times, the Gummingurru Aboriginal stone arrangement site on Queensland’s Darling Downs was a complex locale of motif creation and constant maintenance, social alliance formation, male initiation and cultural education. Since European settlement, the arrangements have undergone a raft of changes, yet the site remains a place of constant narration based around regular recreation of motifs, alliance-making and sharing of cultural expe…
Managing a contested cultural heritage place on K’gari (Fraser Island), Queensland, Australia
Contestation of culturally significant places is a phenomenon that is regularly encountered in heritage management. Takky Wooroo (Indian Head), on World Heritage–inscribed K’gari (Fraser Island), is no exception. The research presented in this paper uses a multi‐vocal methodology situated within the constructivist paradigm of “Indigenous archaeologies” to evaluate contested evidence for cultural and historical significance at Takky Wooroo.Much of…
Archaeology, Cultural Landscapes, and Indigenous Knowledge in Australian Cultural Heritage Management Legislation and Practice
Resurrecting the power in the stones, developing a modern narrative of the agency and sentience of powerful stones, and recreating shared knowledge encounters at Gummingurru and its associated site ar…
Prior to European settlement, the Gummingurru stone arrangement was a place of man‐making and knowledge sharing for Aboriginal people from across vast areas of what is now southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia. One of the most powerful sites of ritual and exchange en‐route to the Bunya Mountains, Gummingurru was the place at which boys became adults, were assigned “yurees” (totems), and given Law to inform their roles in soc…
Discarding the evidence: The place of natural resources stewardship in the creation of the Peel Island Lazaret Midden, Moreton Bay, southeast Queensland
The effects of sampling on the analysis of archeological molluscan remains: A quantitative approach
More than archaeology: New directions in cultural heritage management
Cultural heritage management (CHM) has long been regarded as an off-shoot of mainstream archaeology, largely because CHM began as a result of archaeological concerns about the destruction of sites by amateur fossicking and urban development pressures (Bowdler 1983, Cleere 1989).The archaeological paradigm which underpinned CHM has recently been challenged, largely as a result of Aboriginal involvement in decision making (Byrne 1991, Sullivan 1993…
Absence of Evidence: Reply to Keryn Kefous
Challenging metanarratives: The past lives in the present
It is over 35 years since Langford (1983) called for archaeologists to recognise Aboriginal people's right to control their heritage. Although there have been enormous changes since then in the way Australian archaeologists engage with Traditional Owners in the practice of archaeology and cultural heritage management, several metanarratives that privilege Western knowledge constructs over Indigenous ways of knowing persist. Although such metanarr…
Ancient Vermont
The authors of this paper were invited to attend a conference on 'Ancient Vermont' held at Castleton in Vermont in October 1977, and to examine and comment upon the 'evidence' for the extensive occupation of New England by Celts and others in the first or second millennium BC as propounded by Professor L. B. Fell of Harvard University. The 'evidence' consists broadly of supposed 'Ogam' and 'proto-Ogam' inscriptions on rocks and stones and megalit…
To Whom Can We Turn?” Evaluating the Adequacy of Police and Coroner Investigations into Questionable Deaths
Canada has witnessed thousands of Indigenous testimonies about the suspicious deaths and disappearances of their loved ones and the deficient or non-existent investigations thereafter. Despite growing attention to Indigenous deaths in inquiries and government apologies, there remains little information at ground level for families on how to challenge investigative practices and few cases that have done so successfully. Our research began when we …
Traditional thinking: The impact of international aid on social structures and cultural traditions in agrifood chains in Tonga and Solomon Islands
Aid agencies provide significant funding for the development of modern market systems in subsistence societies. Despite the advantages generated by aid partnerships, aid agencies are often unsuccessful in producing the market changes they aim to realise. This project investigates barriers to the development of demand-driven agrifood market systems at the local level in Solomon Islands and Tonga. We demonstrate that performances that imply a readi…
Keeping Country: A Web-Based Approach To Indigenous Outreach In Cultural Heritage Management
Cultural heritage management (CHM) of Indigenous places is the dominant area of professional practice in Australian archaeology, yet relatively few Indigenous Australians take up a career in the sector. The internet is providing new and effective avenues for Indigenous outreach programmes. This paper describes a self-contained, web-enabled, free-to-user cultural heritage training programme designed in consultation with, and for the use of, Indige…
Constant Resurrection: The Trihybrid Model and the Politicisation of Australian Archaeology
Most Australian archaeologists would say that Birdsell's trihybrid model is defunct and no longer worth considering. Unfortunately, this is not the view of many in the Australian public. In his revisionist history of Australia, the conservative commentator Keith Windschuttle still refers to this model, and, potentially more seriously, writers with a particular political agenda to deny Aboriginal people legitimate Native Title rights have also ado…
Helping the police with their inquiries: Archaeology and politics at Angophora Reserve rockshelter, N.S.W
In New South Wales the legal provisions for the protection of Aboriginal skeletal remains are clear. However, when human remains were discovered at the Aboriginal site of Angophora Reserve rockshelter in Sydney, the situation became complex and confused as coronial investigations and legal procedures dominated archaeological methodology and principle. In this paper we discuss how normal archaeological techniques had to be modified, often beyond a…
An Archaeological Survey on Port Jackson, Sydney
During the period April to December 1975, the Anthropological Society of New South Wales conducted an archaeological survey around Bantry Bay on the northern side of Port Jackson, Sydney. The area surveyed, formerly known as Magazine Reserve, was controlled by the Federal Government until 1974. The reserve, now under the control of Davidson Park Trust, had been closed to public access for 60 years while it was used as a naval explosives depot. Th…
Chain Symbolism in Pagan Celtic Religion
The Human Head in Insular Pagan Celtic Religion
Esus et les trois «grues»
Pagan Celtic Britain: Studies in Iconography and Tradition
Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this comprehensive, profusely illustrated volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. Dr Anne Ross, who speaks Gaelic and Welsh, writes from wide experience of living in Celtic speaking communities where she has traced vernacular tradition. She employs archaeologi…
A Pagan Celtic Tricephalos From Netherton, Lanarkshire
An Archaeological Survey on Port Jackson, Sydney
During the period April to December 1975, the Anthropological Society of New South Wales conducted an archaeological survey around Bantry Bay on the northern side of Port Jackson, Sydney. The area surveyed, formerly known as Magazine Reserve, was controlled by the Federal Government until 1974. The reserve, now under the control of Davidson Park Trust, had been closed to public access for 60 years while it was used as a naval explosives depot. Th…
Ancient Vermont
The authors of this paper were invited to attend a conference on 'Ancient Vermont' held at Castleton in Vermont in October 1977, and to examine and comment upon the 'evidence' for the extensive occupation of New England by Celts and others in the first or second millennium BC as propounded by Professor L. B. Fell of Harvard University. The 'evidence' consists broadly of supposed 'Ogam' and 'proto-Ogam' inscriptions on rocks and stones and megalit…
An Archaeological Survey of Bunda Lake, Belarabon, Western New South Wales
In September 1980 students and staff of the Macquarie University ‘Prehistoric Environments’ course surveyed an area near Belarabon, southwest of Cobar, for archaeological sites. The survey centred on a small usually wet lake known as Canegrass Lake or Bunda Lake. Sites were found to concentrate around the lake margins, with only very small scatters found along the small ephemeral streams away from the lake proper. Site patterning appears to have …
Holocene environments and prehistoric site patterning in the Victorian Mallee
North‐western Victoria is a semi‐arid region of low sand dunes and dense mallee vegetation cover. Except for possible hearth sites in Pleistocene deposits at Lake Tyrrell, Aboriginal occupation of this area, known as ‘the Mallee’, does not appear to have occurred until the terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene, when the region was much less arid than at present. Occupation then was restricted to the northern part of the Mallee; more widespread occu…
Absence of Evidence: Reply to Keryn Kefous
Archaeological evidence for population change in the middle to late Holocene in southeastern Australia
Helping the police with their inquiries: Archaeology and politics at Angophora Reserve rockshelter, N.S.W
In New South Wales the legal provisions for the protection of Aboriginal skeletal remains are clear. However, when human remains were discovered at the Aboriginal site of Angophora Reserve rockshelter in Sydney, the situation became complex and confused as coronial investigations and legal procedures dominated archaeological methodology and principle. In this paper we discuss how normal archaeological techniques had to be modified, often beyond a…
The Great 'Intensification Debate: Its History And Place In Australian Archaeology
The 'Intensification Debate' of the 1980s was a critical period in the investigation of Australian prehistory. It focused attention and research upon questions of change and dynamics within hunter-gatherer societies of the past, especially regarding demographic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors. In this way it was a reaction to previous static and functionalist approaches which emphasised the passive nature of hunter-gatherer societies and…
More than archaeology: New directions in cultural heritage management
Cultural heritage management (CHM) has long been regarded as an off-shoot of mainstream archaeology, largely because CHM began as a result of archaeological concerns about the destruction of sites by amateur fossicking and urban development pressures (Bowdler 1983, Cleere 1989).The archaeological paradigm which underpinned CHM has recently been challenged, largely as a result of Aboriginal involvement in decision making (Byrne 1991, Sullivan 1993…
Fine mesh screening of midden material and the recovery of fish bone: The development of flotation and deflocculation techniques for an efficient and effective procedure
The absence of fish remains in archaeological sites in Moreton Bay, southeast Queensland, Australia, may be a function of recovery techniques, rather than a reflection of resource paucity and late onset of occupation, as has been posited in archaeological literature. An excavation on Peel Island in Moreton Bay was devised, in part, to test this proposition, and a 1-mm mesh screen was used to enhance recovery. But sorting this fine fraction took 2…
The Politics of Reintegrating Australian Aboriginal and American Indian Indigenous Knowledge into Resource Management: The Dynamics of Resource Appropriation and Cultural Revival
Gunumbah: Archaeological and Aboriginal meanings at a quarry site on Moreton Island, southeast Queensland
Cape Moreton - Gunumbah - on Moreton Island, Queensland, is an area of high cultural value to the Ngugi traditional owners, and has considerable archaeological significance. The extensive area of stone outcrops is the largest raw material source for stone artefact manufacture in Moreton Bay, yet there is no evidence for extraction activities or stone working associated directly with the outcrops. Stone working is only visible at two nearby worksh…
Managing Meaning at an Ancient Site in the 21st Century: The Gummingurru Aboriginal Stone Arrangement on the Darling Downs, Southern Queensland
Aboriginal stone arrangements occur throughout Australia and are of ritual importance to Aboriginal peoples. Stone arrangements are part of the dynamic context within which Aboriginal peoples lived in the late Holocene, where constant renegotiation of social alliances required an increasing reliance on ceremonial places with ritual importance. This is the past social context for the Gummingurru Aboriginal stone arrangement site complex on the Dar…
Marine reservoir corrections for Moreton Bay, Australia
We present the first direct assessment of marine reservoir effects in the Moreton Bay region using radiocarbon dating of known‐age, pre‐AD 1950, shell samples from the east coast of Stradbroke Island and archaeological shell/charcoal pairs from Peel Island in Moreton Bay. The resulting ΔR value of 9±1914C years for the open ocean conforms to regional values established for northeast Australia of 12±1014C years. Negative ΔR values of −65±6114C yea…
Constant Resurrection: The Trihybrid Model and the Politicisation of Australian Archaeology
Most Australian archaeologists would say that Birdsell's trihybrid model is defunct and no longer worth considering. Unfortunately, this is not the view of many in the Australian public. In his revisionist history of Australia, the conservative commentator Keith Windschuttle still refers to this model, and, potentially more seriously, writers with a particular political agenda to deny Aboriginal people legitimate Native Title rights have also ado…
Power relations and community involvement in landscape-based cultural heritage management practice: An Australian case study
Collaborative conservation between Aboriginal people and archaeologists in Australia presents new and innovative opportunities for community control in cultural heritage management practice. Community approaches to heritage emphasise cultural landscapes and Indigenous relationships to land and sea. In this paper we illustrate the value of a community‐led cultural heritage management project in a case study from North Stradbroke Island, southeast …
Archaeology, Cultural Landscapes, and Indigenous Knowledge in Australian Cultural Heritage Management Legislation and Practice
Aboriginal Epistemologies and Interpretations of Art and Place on the Blue Tier Northeast Tasmania
Recent disputes between archaeologists and land managers over the authenticity and heritage value of ‘petroglyphs’ on the Blue Tier in northeast Tasmania have focused on the ‘authorship’ of the rock markings. For Aboriginal traditional owners of the Tier the authorship of the marks is indisputable – they were made by ancestral beings and are therefore neither anthropogenic nor natural. However, accepting such explanations confronts the management…
Keeping Country: A Web-Based Approach To Indigenous Outreach In Cultural Heritage Management
Cultural heritage management (CHM) of Indigenous places is the dominant area of professional practice in Australian archaeology, yet relatively few Indigenous Australians take up a career in the sector. The internet is providing new and effective avenues for Indigenous outreach programmes. This paper describes a self-contained, web-enabled, free-to-user cultural heritage training programme designed in consultation with, and for the use of, Indige…
Gummingurru –A community archaeology knowledge journey
The Gummingurru stone arrangement site complex on the Darling Downs of Queensland (Qld), Australia, was originally an initiation site attended by Aboriginal people from many parts of southeast Qld and northeast New South Wales en route to the triennial intergroup gatherings in the nearby Bunya Mountains. The activities at Gummingurru and the Bunya Mountains included knowledge sharing, alliance-making, trade and exchange. In recent times the journ…
Archaeology (31 works) · Geography (23 works) · History (23 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · History (16 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (12 works)