The Archive of the Earth
Reading Rocky Cape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4549836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Billy Griffiths (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2019.0014 |
| OpenAlex | W2968220577 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Every place is an archive; every landscape preserves a complex record of past natural\n and cultural interactions. This article unpacks the archive of a single place, the caves\n of Rocky Cape (pinmatik) in northwest Tasmania, which has been the subject of\n archaeological enquiry for over a century. It reflects on the creative and destructive\n forces in archaeological practice, and the ways in which sites are changed and\n charged by the process of excavation. Like all archives, archaeological sites are\n contested spaces. They are bound to the theories, methodologies and assumptions of\n those who select and interpret them. This article examines how Rocky Cape has been\n read, misread and reread by Western scholars: first, as the crucial piece of evidence in\n global debates about the origin and antiquity of the Tasmanians; second, as a window\n on the world at the end of the last Ice Age; and, third, as a stopping-point in a vast and\n interconnected cultural landscape. By exploring the challenges and opportunities of\n reading the archive of the earth, it seeks to enable a longer, more inclusive view of the\n histories of settler societies
Archaeology · Cape · Cave · Excavation · Geography · Library science · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage
Into the Heart of Tasmania
Ancient Hunters and Their Modern Representatives
Science in archaeology
New perspectives in archeology.
Hunters and Collectors
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
The Road to Botany Bay
The polemics of eating fish in Tasmania
The Dawn’ of Australian Archaeology
Miscellaneous notes on the culture of the Tasmanian Aboriginal
The Stone Age of Australia
Archaeology and Aboriginal Protest
Years in the Tasmanian Highlands
Adaptive Technology in Southwest Tasmania 1
Techniques of Archaeological Excavation
Deep nation
Discovering Monaro. A Study of Man's Impact on His Environment
What we were told
Australia's once and future archaeology
Old guards and new waves
Archives, records, and power
A Vegetation Map of Tasmania
The excavator
Tasmania and the constitution of 'the dawn of humanity
The Aborigines of Tasmania
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |