Sydney's Aboriginal past : investigating the archaeological and historical records / Val Attenbrow
- Bib ID:
- 522373
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Attenbrow, Valerie, 1942-
- Description:
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- Sydney : UNSW Press, c2002
- xiii, 225 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 086840585X
- 0868406783 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Survey of the archaeological, ethnographic and historical documentation of the Aboriginal occupation of the Sydney region; tables of place names and sources; maps of excavations; clan territories and names mapped and tabulated; language groups - distribution, spelling and sources tabulated - discusses the Eora; environmental background - geology, fauna and flora; Port Jackson archaeological project; subsistence patterns - movement and mobility; social structure - kinship, clan membership and marriage, status; economy - food resources (discussed and tabulated by location), division of labour; material culture - hunting equipment (spears, spear-throwers, fish hooks and lines, canoes, nets, axes), food preparation - containers, use of fire, weapons - clubs, boomerangs, swords, shields; bone, shell and stone implements; shelters, clothing, personal decoration; use of plants, shell, animal products, stone and colonial products in material culture; trade and exchange; religious beliefs - Baiame and Daramulan, totems; rituals and rites - initiation, scarification, piercing and body modifications; medical practices; mortuary and burial practices; visual culture - cloak designs, ground sculptures, rock paintings - techniques and motifs; summary of long-term historical context; site visitation information - locations and descriptions.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 209-218.
- Subject:
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- Excavations (Archaeology) -- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Antiquities
- Material culture
- Environment
- Eora / Iora people (S61) (NSW SI56-05)
- Social organisation
- Religion
- Costume and clothing
- Gundungurra / Gundungura /Gandangara people (S60) (NSW SI56-09)
- Ku-ring-gai / Gameraigal people (S62) (NSW SI56-05)
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Sites - Sites of significance
- Religion - Totemism
- Habitation
- Ceremonies
- Subsistence and economy
- Trade and exchange
- Technology - Tools
- Body - Decoration
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Geography - Territories and boundaries
- Art - Rock art
- Death - Mortuary customs
- Dharawal / Tharawal / Dariwal people (S59) (NSW SI56-09)
- Darkinung / Darkinjung / Darkinoong people (S65) (NSW SI56-05)
- Weapons
- Dharug / Daruk / Darug people (S64) (NSW SI56-05)
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities
- Sydney map area (NSW SI56-05)
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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