Stone Fish-Traps at Cooks Corner, Freycinet Peninsula, Eastern Tasmania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11956465 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric A Colhoun (Department of Geography University of Tasmania Hobart Tasmania 7001, corresponding author), Adrian Piper (48 Lagoon Road Fingal Head NSW 2413) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-118 |
| Publication date | 1982-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-2417 • E-ISSN: 2470-0363 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03122417.1982.12092845 |
| OpenAlex | W2398244824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
Stone fish-traps are not common in Tasmania but some have been recorded recently from Ordinance Point in western Tasmania and between Rocky Cape and Low Head on the northern Tasmanlan coastline (Stockton 1982). In view of the fact that Tasmanlan Aborigines were known to have included several varieties of inshore fish species in their diet prior to 3500 years ago, after which they mysteriously seem to have dropped fish from their diet (Jones 1978), the occurrence of such stone fish-traps begs the question as to whether the Aborigines had a more advanced technology for catching fish than previously thought or whether the fish traps largely postdate the Aboriginal period and were built by early European settlers. The evidence known from the western and northern coasts Indicates the latter origin
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Fish · Fishery · Geography · Peninsula · Engineering · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 1988 - 2011 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |