Tracing pathways
Writing archaeology in Nyiyaparli country
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6039154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Bird (0000-0002-9769-3661, Archae‐Aus, corresponding author), Fiona Hook (0000-0001-5025-4293, Archae‐Aus), James W Rhoads (0000-0002-1229-1357, Archae‐Aus) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 72-81 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/arco.5206 |
| OpenAlex | W2998161342 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
TheAboriginal Heritage Act 1972(WA) uniquely placed Aboriginal perspectives at the heart of assessing significance and protecting Aboriginal places, alongside “historical, anthropological, archaeological and ethnographic” interests. In practice, however, archaeological and anthropological assessments have been routinely separated in development surveys. A narrow “scientific” paradigm has come to provide the overarching model for significance assessments and, thereby, archaeological survey and site recording. Arguably, WA Aboriginal heritage management now embodies an impoverished discourse that depersonalises the archaeological record and undervalues Aboriginal archaeological places. In this paper, we explore alternative ways to weigh up archaeological evidence through an interweaving of Aboriginal understandings about archaeology, sites and country with our own archaeological understandings. We describe and analyse connections between different components of the archaeological record along Kakutungutanta Creek in Nyiyaparli Country in the eastern Chichester Range. This analysis suggests an alternative approach to assessing the significance of these sites, based on landscape and Ingold's (1993) concept of the “taskscape”. This, we argue, better reflects Nyiyaparli and archaeological understandings of place and provides a sound basis for communicating the significance and meaning to clients, government and the wider community
Archaeological evidence · Archaeological record · Archaeological theory · Archaeology · Ethnography · Government (linguistics · Historical archaeology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Psychology
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