Darwin archaeology : Aboriginal, Asian and European heritage of Australia's Top End / editors Patricia Bourke, Sally Brockwell and Clayton Fredericksen
- Bib ID:
- 3413275
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- Book
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- Description:
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- Darwin : Charles Darwin University Press, 2005
- v, 106 p. : ill., maps, ports ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 187624898X
- Summary:
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This volume represents the first compilation of archaeological research for the Darwin region. The collection of papers in this volume focuses archaeological attention on a single region from a variety of perspectives, over a time period from 4000 years ago to the Second World War.
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- Machine derived contents note: 1 Introduction: Physical and cultural transformations
- of the Darwin Region
- Clayton Fredericksen, Sally Brockwell and Patricia Bourke 1
- 2 Settlement patterns on the lower Adelaide River
- in the Mid to Late Holocene
- Sally Brockwell 9
- 3 Coastal cowboys: The development of speculative models
- of molluscan midden matter in the Darwin Region
- Peter Hiscock 19
- 4 Archaeology of shell mounds of the Darwin coast: Totems
- of an ancestral landscape
- Patricia Bourke 29
- 5 A poor man's show: Historic archaeology of the
- Bynoe Harbour Chinese community
- Scott Mitchell 49
- 6 Single-Men's Quarters at Fannie Bay Gaol: An archaeology
- of hard drinking and mateship?
- Clayton Fredericksen 59
- 7 An historic shipwreck in the wilderness: The aesthetic value
- of the Brisbane wreck site
- David Steinberg 75
- 8 Archaeological investigations of the World War Two Catalina
- Flying Boat wreck sites in East Arm, Darwin Harbour:
- An appraisal of results
- Silvano Jung 85
- 9 The Battle of North Australia: The archaeology
- of a World War Two airfield
- Colin De La Rue 96.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Archaeology -- Northern Territory
- Historic sites -- Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- Antiquities
- Sites - Earth mounds
- Sites - Excavations
- Sites - Middens
- Darwin Region (N.T.) -- Antiquities
- Darwin Region (N.T.) -- History
- Adelaide River (NT Top End SD52-08)
- Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04)
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