Darrell Lewis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4063486 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Darrell Lewis |
| PRENOMES | Darrell |
| SOBRENOME | Lewis |
| ASSINATURA | LEWIS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New England |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Moluccan Fighting Craft on Australian Shores
Two similar watercraft depicted in rock art at Awunbarna, Arnhem Land, Australia, are unlike the Macassan prahus and Western craft shown at other contact sites in northern Australia, but are sufficiently detailed to offer evidence for identification. Both craft appear to display triangular flags, pennants, and prow adornments indicating martial status. By comparing these two depictions with historically recorded watercraft from Island Southeast A…
Dreaming Ecology
In the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long'. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non-human, in the wake of white settler colonialism
The Victoria River District Doomsday Book
As I described in the first edition of the Victoria River District Doomsday Book, it has its genesis in Jock Makin’s history of Victoria River Downs, The Big Run. In early editions of this book Makin had a list of Victoria River Downs managers and the years they were in charge of VRD. In 1981 Deborah Rose and I were recording Aboriginal oral history in the Victoria River country and often found it difficult to place the stories in time. Aborigina…
Art in the bark
Found only in a restricted area of north-west Australia, the Australian boab (Adansonia gregorii) is recognisable by its massive, bottle-shaped trunk, and is an economically important species for Indigenous Australians, with the pith, seeds and young roots all eaten. Many of these trees are also culturally significant and are sometimes carved with images and symbols. The authors discuss the history of research into carved boabs in Australia, and …
Minjiwarra
Recent archaeological research in Australia’s north-eastern Kimberley has luminescence dated a large red sedimentary feature, known as Minjiwarra, with artefacts in stratified contexts from the late Holocene to ∼50,000 years ago. This site is located on the Drysdale River, with preliminary excavations undertaken as part of an ARC Linkage Project. Deeply stratified sites in association with rockshelters are uncommon across the NE Kimberley and bas…
Comment on Welch’s ‘Thy Thylacoleo is a thylacine’, Australian Archaeology , 80
In this paper, I review Welch’s critique (Australian Archaeology 80:40–47) of claims by Akerman, Akerman and Willing and Woodhouse that depictions of Thylacoleo exist in Kimberley rock art. I agree with his conclusion that these claims are unfounded and that the depictions probably represent thylacines. There are, however, problems with the methodology he employs to reach this conclusion, a number of factual mistakes and a failure to adequately a…
The ‘Outback archive’
Written documents are the fundamental resource used by historians, and to a lesser extent by archaeologists. This resource usually comprises paper records, photographs and paintings in public archives or private collections, but there are other types of ‘documentation’ available. In Australia these include inscriptions on trees and rocks by explorers and settlers, and later on infrastructure built by settlers. In the northwest such ‘unorthodox ’ …
Cattle, Repeat Photography, and Changing Vegetation in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory, Australia
Invaders of a peaceful country’
The Victoria River in the northwest of the Northern Territory of Australia has Aborigines history for 40, 000 years but owing to harsh climate, remote and difficult to access district, lack of functioning Aborigines reserves, mission stations or town, very little ethnographic research has been carried out. Some fascinating information about the Aborigines existing in the records of two exploring expeditions to Victoria River country is presented
Making Bronco Ropes
In the 1890s and early 1900s H. Compton Trew developed the bronco method of handling cattle for branding and other treatment. His innovation led to new words in the Australian lexicon, alterations in harness and stockyard design, the construction of special ‘bronco panels’, and the adoption of twisted greenhide ropes which largely replaced the plaited ropes that had previously been used. Production of a first‐class bronco rope required considerab…
Broncoing’
The early Anglo‐Celtic settlers in Australia arrived with a ‘cattle‐culture’ developed in Britain over many centuries, but their cattle‐handling technology proved inadequate for the unique conditions of Australia and new methods were soon devised. For most of the nineteenth century these new techniques required the use of a yard, but eventually the ‘bronco’ method was developed which did not require a yard and which involved a specially construct…
Ubirr
Lightning Brothers
Bradshaws
A summary of the Arnhem Land rock art sequence and dating is discussed. The main aim is to evaluate the regional links and differences between the two art bodies - the Bradshaw art in the Kimberley and the Mimi Art of Arnhem Island
In defence of Arnhem Land rock art research
In 1992 two papers dealing with Arnhem Land rock art were published by Ivan Haskovec. Both contain previously unpublished illustrations of rock paintings and increase the range of published material available for scholarly analysis. One paper examines a particular style of human figure found between Oenpelli and Magela Creek, which Haskovec has labelled 'Northern Running Figures' or 'NW' (Haskovec l992a). He begins his examination with an assessm…
The Tasmanian Devil in Arnhem Land Rock Art
In separate papers in 1972, Brandl and Wright published motifs from Aboriginal rock art which they claimed were representations of the thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), an animal believed extinct on mainland Australia for at least 3000 years (Milham and Thompson 1976). The existence of apparent thylacine depictions led McCarthy to suspect that another animal extinct on the mainland, the Tasmanian Devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ), might also be…
The Dreamtime Animals’
Minjiwarra
Recent archaeological research in Australia’s north-eastern Kimberley has luminescence dated a large red sedimentary feature, known as Minjiwarra, with artefacts in stratified contexts from the late Holocene to ∼50,000 years ago. This site is located on the Drysdale River, with preliminary excavations undertaken as part of an ARC Linkage Project. Deeply stratified sites in association with rockshelters are uncommon across the NE Kimberley and bas…
Bradshaws
A summary of the Arnhem Land rock art sequence and dating is discussed. The main aim is to evaluate the regional links and differences between the two art bodies - the Bradshaw art in the Kimberley and the Mimi Art of Arnhem Island
Art in the bark
Found only in a restricted area of north-west Australia, the Australian boab (Adansonia gregorii) is recognisable by its massive, bottle-shaped trunk, and is an economically important species for Indigenous Australians, with the pith, seeds and young roots all eaten. Many of these trees are also culturally significant and are sometimes carved with images and symbols. The authors discuss the history of research into carved boabs in Australia, and …
The ‘Outback archive’
Written documents are the fundamental resource used by historians, and to a lesser extent by archaeologists. This resource usually comprises paper records, photographs and paintings in public archives or private collections, but there are other types of ‘documentation’ available. In Australia these include inscriptions on trees and rocks by explorers and settlers, and later on infrastructure built by settlers. In the northwest such ‘unorthodox ’ …
The Tasmanian Devil in Arnhem Land Rock Art
In separate papers in 1972, Brandl and Wright published motifs from Aboriginal rock art which they claimed were representations of the thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), an animal believed extinct on mainland Australia for at least 3000 years (Milham and Thompson 1976). The existence of apparent thylacine depictions led McCarthy to suspect that another animal extinct on the mainland, the Tasmanian Devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ), might also be…
The Dreamtime Animals’
Dreaming Ecology
In the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long'. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non-human, in the wake of white settler colonialism
In defence of Arnhem Land rock art research
In 1992 two papers dealing with Arnhem Land rock art were published by Ivan Haskovec. Both contain previously unpublished illustrations of rock paintings and increase the range of published material available for scholarly analysis. One paper examines a particular style of human figure found between Oenpelli and Magela Creek, which Haskovec has labelled 'Northern Running Figures' or 'NW' (Haskovec l992a). He begins his examination with an assessm…
Moluccan Fighting Craft on Australian Shores
Two similar watercraft depicted in rock art at Awunbarna, Arnhem Land, Australia, are unlike the Macassan prahus and Western craft shown at other contact sites in northern Australia, but are sufficiently detailed to offer evidence for identification. Both craft appear to display triangular flags, pennants, and prow adornments indicating martial status. By comparing these two depictions with historically recorded watercraft from Island Southeast A…
The Victoria River District Doomsday Book
As I described in the first edition of the Victoria River District Doomsday Book, it has its genesis in Jock Makin’s history of Victoria River Downs, The Big Run. In early editions of this book Makin had a list of Victoria River Downs managers and the years they were in charge of VRD. In 1981 Deborah Rose and I were recording Aboriginal oral history in the Victoria River country and often found it difficult to place the stories in time. Aborigina…
Invaders of a peaceful country’
The Victoria River in the northwest of the Northern Territory of Australia has Aborigines history for 40, 000 years but owing to harsh climate, remote and difficult to access district, lack of functioning Aborigines reserves, mission stations or town, very little ethnographic research has been carried out. Some fascinating information about the Aborigines existing in the records of two exploring expeditions to Victoria River country is presented
The Dreamtime Animals’
The Tasmanian Devil in Arnhem Land Rock Art
In separate papers in 1972, Brandl and Wright published motifs from Aboriginal rock art which they claimed were representations of the thylacine ( Thylacinus cynocephalus ), an animal believed extinct on mainland Australia for at least 3000 years (Milham and Thompson 1976). The existence of apparent thylacine depictions led McCarthy to suspect that another animal extinct on the mainland, the Tasmanian Devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ), might also be…
In defence of Arnhem Land rock art research
In 1992 two papers dealing with Arnhem Land rock art were published by Ivan Haskovec. Both contain previously unpublished illustrations of rock paintings and increase the range of published material available for scholarly analysis. One paper examines a particular style of human figure found between Oenpelli and Magela Creek, which Haskovec has labelled 'Northern Running Figures' or 'NW' (Haskovec l992a). He begins his examination with an assessm…
Bradshaws
A summary of the Arnhem Land rock art sequence and dating is discussed. The main aim is to evaluate the regional links and differences between the two art bodies - the Bradshaw art in the Kimberley and the Mimi Art of Arnhem Island
Ubirr
Lightning Brothers
Broncoing’
The early Anglo‐Celtic settlers in Australia arrived with a ‘cattle‐culture’ developed in Britain over many centuries, but their cattle‐handling technology proved inadequate for the unique conditions of Australia and new methods were soon devised. For most of the nineteenth century these new techniques required the use of a yard, but eventually the ‘bronco’ method was developed which did not require a yard and which involved a specially construct…
Making Bronco Ropes
In the 1890s and early 1900s H. Compton Trew developed the bronco method of handling cattle for branding and other treatment. His innovation led to new words in the Australian lexicon, alterations in harness and stockyard design, the construction of special ‘bronco panels’, and the adoption of twisted greenhide ropes which largely replaced the plaited ropes that had previously been used. Production of a first‐class bronco rope required considerab…
Invaders of a peaceful country’
The Victoria River in the northwest of the Northern Territory of Australia has Aborigines history for 40, 000 years but owing to harsh climate, remote and difficult to access district, lack of functioning Aborigines reserves, mission stations or town, very little ethnographic research has been carried out. Some fascinating information about the Aborigines existing in the records of two exploring expeditions to Victoria River country is presented
Cattle, Repeat Photography, and Changing Vegetation in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory, Australia
The ‘Outback archive’
Written documents are the fundamental resource used by historians, and to a lesser extent by archaeologists. This resource usually comprises paper records, photographs and paintings in public archives or private collections, but there are other types of ‘documentation’ available. In Australia these include inscriptions on trees and rocks by explorers and settlers, and later on infrastructure built by settlers. In the northwest such ‘unorthodox ’ …
Comment on Welch’s ‘Thy Thylacoleo is a thylacine’, Australian Archaeology , 80
In this paper, I review Welch’s critique (Australian Archaeology 80:40–47) of claims by Akerman, Akerman and Willing and Woodhouse that depictions of Thylacoleo exist in Kimberley rock art. I agree with his conclusion that these claims are unfounded and that the depictions probably represent thylacines. There are, however, problems with the methodology he employs to reach this conclusion, a number of factual mistakes and a failure to adequately a…
Minjiwarra
Recent archaeological research in Australia’s north-eastern Kimberley has luminescence dated a large red sedimentary feature, known as Minjiwarra, with artefacts in stratified contexts from the late Holocene to ∼50,000 years ago. This site is located on the Drysdale River, with preliminary excavations undertaken as part of an ARC Linkage Project. Deeply stratified sites in association with rockshelters are uncommon across the NE Kimberley and bas…
The Victoria River District Doomsday Book
As I described in the first edition of the Victoria River District Doomsday Book, it has its genesis in Jock Makin’s history of Victoria River Downs, The Big Run. In early editions of this book Makin had a list of Victoria River Downs managers and the years they were in charge of VRD. In 1981 Deborah Rose and I were recording Aboriginal oral history in the Victoria River country and often found it difficult to place the stories in time. Aborigina…
Art in the bark
Found only in a restricted area of north-west Australia, the Australian boab (Adansonia gregorii) is recognisable by its massive, bottle-shaped trunk, and is an economically important species for Indigenous Australians, with the pith, seeds and young roots all eaten. Many of these trees are also culturally significant and are sometimes carved with images and symbols. The authors discuss the history of research into carved boabs in Australia, and …
Moluccan Fighting Craft on Australian Shores
Two similar watercraft depicted in rock art at Awunbarna, Arnhem Land, Australia, are unlike the Macassan prahus and Western craft shown at other contact sites in northern Australia, but are sufficiently detailed to offer evidence for identification. Both craft appear to display triangular flags, pennants, and prow adornments indicating martial status. By comparing these two depictions with historically recorded watercraft from Island Southeast A…
Dreaming Ecology
In the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long'. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non-human, in the wake of white settler colonialism
Archaeology (12 obras) · History (9 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (6 obras) · Australian Indigenous Culture and History (6 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 obras) · Project commissioning (5 obras) · Publishing (5 obras)