Harrison, Rodney
(2002).
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Abstract
While Aboriginally flaked bottle glass artefacts have been widely described in the Australian archaeological literature as the type fossil of Aboriginal post-contact sites, the introduction of metal as a raw material had a far wider and longer-term impact on the development of post-contact indigenous technologies. However, Aboriginally produced metal artefacts have been poorly described in the archaeological literature. This paper describes an assemblage of post-contact manufactured metal artefacts collected as part of archaeological investigations of the Aboriginal pastoral worker’s encampments at Old Lamboo Station, a cattle station located in the southeast Kimberley region of Western Australia. The paper concludes with observations regarding the potential for a study of regional variation in post-contact artefact forms and the need for a more mature approach that acknowledges the complexities in meaning which have been attributed to unmodified ‘western’ objects by indigenous people in colonial contexts.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2002 Australian Society for Historical Archaeology |
| ISSN: | 1322-9214 |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 18967 |
| Depositing User: | Rodney Harrison |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2009 09:59 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2016 10:29 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/18967 |
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