Gunaikurnai Land And Waters Aboriginal Corporation
Biographic Data
| ID | 4559408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunaikurnai Land And Waters Aboriginal Corporation |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunaikurnai Land And Waters Aboriginal |
| FAMILY NAME | Corporation |
| SIGNATURE | CORPORATION G L A W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Phytoliths from Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai country (southeastern Australia) reveal the gathering of whole grasses for burning practices inside the cave
Archaeobotanical evidence paired with GunaiKurnai cultural knowledge has established that plants were central to activities of the Old Ancestors in Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country. Here, we undertake a study of phytoliths from the stratified archaeological deposits to provide a complimentary line of evidence of people–plant relations across 25,000 years of cave engagement. Alongside the phytoliths of the archaeological sediments, we analyse the …
Counting on kin and Country, not just calories: Beyond subsistence thinking in GunaiKurnai zooarchaeology, southeastern Australia
Interpreting a Legacy Fossil Assemblage Excavated From Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country, Snowy River National Park, Southeastern Australia
In this paper we report on faunal remains recovered from a legacy archaeological excavation undertaken in the rockshelter entrance of Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), a GunaiKurnai site located on the west bank of the Snowy River, East Gippsland, southeastern Australia. From 1980 to 1985, archaeologist Paul Ossa undertook a 5 m‐deep excavation in the cave's rockshelter entrance, but due to a poorly defined stratigraphy and insufficient radiocarbon …
Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia
Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a location that features the first intertidal rocky platform habitat between Wilsons Promontory in the west and …
Adapting to rapidly transforming seascapes in the Mid- to Late Holocene, southeastern Australia
Aquatic environments are highly dynamic. They are characterized by rapid and often unpredictable transformations driven by sea-level fluctuations, climate change, tectonic activity, and anthropic land-and-sea use practices that result in large-scale environmental shifts. Globally, archaeology has documented how people adapt and respond to these changes by altering subsistence strategies, settlement patterns, travel routes, and technologies to mee…
Events, trends and the ‘Pompeii Premise: Telling stories of the Old Ancestors in Australian archaeology
Finger flutings at New Guinea II Cave, lower Snowy River valley (Victoria), GunaiKurnai country
Finger flutings’, the marks made when people run their fingers along soft cave walls and ceilings, are typically found in limestone caves. Such marks capture a momentary impression of engagement with a place: old (archaeological) finger flutings mark the gestures of people past (in Australia, often referred to as the ‘Old Ancestors’) as they ventured into the depths of caves. In Australia, finger flutings are rare and spread across the southern h…
Cloggs Cave pollen sequences, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (SE Australia): 25,000 Years of Cultural Plant Use and Changing Environments
In southeastern Australia, GunaiKurnai caves are known by current Aboriginal Elders and from nineteenth century ethnographic documents as special places used by mulla-mullung (“clever men” and “clever women”) for the practice of magic and medicine. Pollen analysis conducted on sediments from one such cave, Cloggs Cave, reveals an unusually well-preserved and well-stratified pollen sequence extending back >25,000 years, with much of the pollen int…
Millukmungee 1: Stone artefacts and occupation at the junction of the Buchan and Snowy Rivers, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (Victoria, Australia)
Recent excavations at Millukmungee 1, a limestone rock shelter along the upper bank of the Buchan River in GunaiKurnai Country (southeastern Australia), uncovered archaeological evidence of Mid-to Late Holocene occupation spanning c. 5000 years. Here we report on the stone artefacts and faunal remains, especially in light of a paucity of published details on artefact types and technologies for this part of southeast Australia. Results indicate th…
Gone with the Wind, Waves, and Walking: Prioritizing Research at Vulnerable Archaeological Sites in Coastal Zones
Archaeological evidence of an ethnographically documented Australian Aboriginal ritual dated to the last ice age
In societies without writing, ethnographically known rituals have rarely been tracked back archaeologically more than a few hundred years. At the invitation of GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Elders, we undertook archaeological excavations at Cloggs Cave in the foothills of the Australian Alps. In GunaiKurnai Country, caves were not used as residential places during the early colonial period (mid-nineteenth century CE), but as secluded retreats for the pe…
The mulla-mullung ’s Bulk: GunaiKurnai Perspectives on the Stone Artifacts of Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Southeastern Australia
Recent archaeological mapping of, and excavations at, Cloggs Cave, in GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country in Southeastern Australia, have revealed a rich underground landscape of stone arrangements, broken stalactites, and what appear to be crushed crystalline minerals and ritual ash layers. Here we examine the stone artifacts to determine how they can shed further light on how the cave was used, and what a GunaiKurnai perspective can tell us about ho…
Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and Their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia
Archaeology of Australia’s coastline: The role of geomorphology in the visibility and preservation of archaeological deposits on sandy shores, with a Gippsland case study
In Australia as elsewhere in the world, coastal archaeological sites are increasingly threatened by rising seas and changing storm patterns, along with encroaching human activities. Understanding the geomorphological context is key to understanding the positioning of archaeological deposits in or on coastal landforms, their vulnerability to erosion and their resilience and capacity for longer-term management and preservation. Here we review the d…
Years and Worlds Apart: Rethinking the Holocene occupation of Cloggs Cave (East Gippsland, SE Australia) five decades after its initial archaeological excavation and in light of GunaiKurnai world view…
In this paper we report on new research at the iconic archaeological site of Cloggs Cave (GunaiKurnai Country), in the southern foothills of SE Australia’s Great Dividing Range. Detailed chronometric dating, combined with high-resolution 3D mapping, geomorphological studies and archaeological excavations, now allow a dense sequence of Late Holocene ash layers and their contents to be correlated with GunaiKurnai ethnography and current knowledge. …
Disrupting what, whose Country, whose paradise
In her opinion piece Lynley Wallis casts a wide net over all facets of the discipline to portray it as one captured by neo-liberalist policies and indeed as being almost beyond redemption. We, howe
Community research in a public place: Wangangarra 1 rockshelter, Mitchell River National Park, East Gippsland (Australia)
Southeastern Australia’s temperate East Gippsland region is a large and diverse landscape that spans from the Bass Strait coast to the Australian Alps. The region includes a number of national parks and reserves jointly managed by Aboriginal Traditional Owners, the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (the ‘Gunaikurnai Corporation’), and Parks Victoria. The Gunaikurnai Corporation recognises that archaeological research can be a fun…
Years and Worlds Apart: Rethinking the Holocene occupation of Cloggs Cave (East Gippsland, SE Australia) five decades after its initial archaeological excavation and in light of GunaiKurnai world view…
In this paper we report on new research at the iconic archaeological site of Cloggs Cave (GunaiKurnai Country), in the southern foothills of SE Australia’s Great Dividing Range. Detailed chronometric dating, combined with high-resolution 3D mapping, geomorphological studies and archaeological excavations, now allow a dense sequence of Late Holocene ash layers and their contents to be correlated with GunaiKurnai ethnography and current knowledge. …
Community research in a public place: Wangangarra 1 rockshelter, Mitchell River National Park, East Gippsland (Australia)
Southeastern Australia’s temperate East Gippsland region is a large and diverse landscape that spans from the Bass Strait coast to the Australian Alps. The region includes a number of national parks and reserves jointly managed by Aboriginal Traditional Owners, the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (the ‘Gunaikurnai Corporation’), and Parks Victoria. The Gunaikurnai Corporation recognises that archaeological research can be a fun…
Archaeological evidence of an ethnographically documented Australian Aboriginal ritual dated to the last ice age
In societies without writing, ethnographically known rituals have rarely been tracked back archaeologically more than a few hundred years. At the invitation of GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Elders, we undertook archaeological excavations at Cloggs Cave in the foothills of the Australian Alps. In GunaiKurnai Country, caves were not used as residential places during the early colonial period (mid-nineteenth century CE), but as secluded retreats for the pe…
Disrupting what, whose Country, whose paradise
In her opinion piece Lynley Wallis casts a wide net over all facets of the discipline to portray it as one captured by neo-liberalist policies and indeed as being almost beyond redemption. We, howe
Gone with the Wind, Waves, and Walking: Prioritizing Research at Vulnerable Archaeological Sites in Coastal Zones
Disrupting what, whose Country, whose paradise
In her opinion piece Lynley Wallis casts a wide net over all facets of the discipline to portray it as one captured by neo-liberalist policies and indeed as being almost beyond redemption. We, howe
Community research in a public place: Wangangarra 1 rockshelter, Mitchell River National Park, East Gippsland (Australia)
Southeastern Australia’s temperate East Gippsland region is a large and diverse landscape that spans from the Bass Strait coast to the Australian Alps. The region includes a number of national parks and reserves jointly managed by Aboriginal Traditional Owners, the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (the ‘Gunaikurnai Corporation’), and Parks Victoria. The Gunaikurnai Corporation recognises that archaeological research can be a fun…
Years and Worlds Apart: Rethinking the Holocene occupation of Cloggs Cave (East Gippsland, SE Australia) five decades after its initial archaeological excavation and in light of GunaiKurnai world view…
In this paper we report on new research at the iconic archaeological site of Cloggs Cave (GunaiKurnai Country), in the southern foothills of SE Australia’s Great Dividing Range. Detailed chronometric dating, combined with high-resolution 3D mapping, geomorphological studies and archaeological excavations, now allow a dense sequence of Late Holocene ash layers and their contents to be correlated with GunaiKurnai ethnography and current knowledge. …
The mulla-mullung ’s Bulk: GunaiKurnai Perspectives on the Stone Artifacts of Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Southeastern Australia
Recent archaeological mapping of, and excavations at, Cloggs Cave, in GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country in Southeastern Australia, have revealed a rich underground landscape of stone arrangements, broken stalactites, and what appear to be crushed crystalline minerals and ritual ash layers. Here we examine the stone artifacts to determine how they can shed further light on how the cave was used, and what a GunaiKurnai perspective can tell us about ho…
Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and Their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia
Archaeology of Australia’s coastline: The role of geomorphology in the visibility and preservation of archaeological deposits on sandy shores, with a Gippsland case study
In Australia as elsewhere in the world, coastal archaeological sites are increasingly threatened by rising seas and changing storm patterns, along with encroaching human activities. Understanding the geomorphological context is key to understanding the positioning of archaeological deposits in or on coastal landforms, their vulnerability to erosion and their resilience and capacity for longer-term management and preservation. Here we review the d…
Cloggs Cave pollen sequences, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (SE Australia): 25,000 Years of Cultural Plant Use and Changing Environments
In southeastern Australia, GunaiKurnai caves are known by current Aboriginal Elders and from nineteenth century ethnographic documents as special places used by mulla-mullung (“clever men” and “clever women”) for the practice of magic and medicine. Pollen analysis conducted on sediments from one such cave, Cloggs Cave, reveals an unusually well-preserved and well-stratified pollen sequence extending back >25,000 years, with much of the pollen int…
Millukmungee 1: Stone artefacts and occupation at the junction of the Buchan and Snowy Rivers, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (Victoria, Australia)
Recent excavations at Millukmungee 1, a limestone rock shelter along the upper bank of the Buchan River in GunaiKurnai Country (southeastern Australia), uncovered archaeological evidence of Mid-to Late Holocene occupation spanning c. 5000 years. Here we report on the stone artefacts and faunal remains, especially in light of a paucity of published details on artefact types and technologies for this part of southeast Australia. Results indicate th…
Gone with the Wind, Waves, and Walking: Prioritizing Research at Vulnerable Archaeological Sites in Coastal Zones
Archaeological evidence of an ethnographically documented Australian Aboriginal ritual dated to the last ice age
In societies without writing, ethnographically known rituals have rarely been tracked back archaeologically more than a few hundred years. At the invitation of GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Elders, we undertook archaeological excavations at Cloggs Cave in the foothills of the Australian Alps. In GunaiKurnai Country, caves were not used as residential places during the early colonial period (mid-nineteenth century CE), but as secluded retreats for the pe…
Adapting to rapidly transforming seascapes in the Mid- to Late Holocene, southeastern Australia
Aquatic environments are highly dynamic. They are characterized by rapid and often unpredictable transformations driven by sea-level fluctuations, climate change, tectonic activity, and anthropic land-and-sea use practices that result in large-scale environmental shifts. Globally, archaeology has documented how people adapt and respond to these changes by altering subsistence strategies, settlement patterns, travel routes, and technologies to mee…
Events, trends and the ‘Pompeii Premise: Telling stories of the Old Ancestors in Australian archaeology
Finger flutings at New Guinea II Cave, lower Snowy River valley (Victoria), GunaiKurnai country
Finger flutings’, the marks made when people run their fingers along soft cave walls and ceilings, are typically found in limestone caves. Such marks capture a momentary impression of engagement with a place: old (archaeological) finger flutings mark the gestures of people past (in Australia, often referred to as the ‘Old Ancestors’) as they ventured into the depths of caves. In Australia, finger flutings are rare and spread across the southern h…
Phytoliths from Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai country (southeastern Australia) reveal the gathering of whole grasses for burning practices inside the cave
Archaeobotanical evidence paired with GunaiKurnai cultural knowledge has established that plants were central to activities of the Old Ancestors in Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country. Here, we undertake a study of phytoliths from the stratified archaeological deposits to provide a complimentary line of evidence of people–plant relations across 25,000 years of cave engagement. Alongside the phytoliths of the archaeological sediments, we analyse the …
Counting on kin and Country, not just calories: Beyond subsistence thinking in GunaiKurnai zooarchaeology, southeastern Australia
Interpreting a Legacy Fossil Assemblage Excavated From Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country, Snowy River National Park, Southeastern Australia
In this paper we report on faunal remains recovered from a legacy archaeological excavation undertaken in the rockshelter entrance of Waribruk (New Guinea II Cave), a GunaiKurnai site located on the west bank of the Snowy River, East Gippsland, southeastern Australia. From 1980 to 1985, archaeologist Paul Ossa undertook a 5 m‐deep excavation in the cave's rockshelter entrance, but due to a poorly defined stratigraphy and insufficient radiocarbon …
Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia
Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a location that features the first intertidal rocky platform habitat between Wilsons Promontory in the west and …
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Cave (6 works) · History (6 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Excavation (4 works)