Engineers of the Arnhem Land plateau
Evidence for the origins and transformation of sheltered spaces at Nawarla Gabarnmang
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23703045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jean‐jacques Delannoy (0000-0002-2815-4920, Université Savoie Mont Blanc), Bruno David (0000-0002-8567-6135), Jean-Michel Geneste, Jean‐michel Geneste (Université de Bordeaux), Margaret Katherine (IP Australia), Benjamin Sadier (Université Savoie Mont Blanc), Robert Gunn (0000-0002-7565-8697) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia (Terra Australis 47) (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/ta47.11.2017.10 |
| OpenAlex | W2770818237 |
| ISBN | 9781760461614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 5 |
The archaeomorphological study of Nawarla Gabarnmang in Australia's Northern Territory challenges us to think in new ways about how Aboriginal people interacted with their surroundings; here a site of everyday engagement was a place of construction that retains material traces of past engagements. At Nawarla Garbarnmang, we show through archaeomorphological research how the changing physical layout of a site can be cross-examined against the impacts of human engagements through time. While the scope and scale of activities involved the anthropogenic removal over tens of thousands of years of rock pillars below the cave's roof, other practices came and went over time, the complex sequence of rock art conventions being an apt example. These artistic transformations, much like the era of pillar clearances, are a clear example of changing cultural practices in a part of Australia where some 50,000 years of human occupation can be shown.
Archaeology · Cave · Geography · Pillar · Plateau (mathematics) · Scope (computer science) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Citations per year | 1.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2027 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |