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Sydney's aboriginal past : investigating the archaeological and historical records / Val Attenbrow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attenbrow, Val, 1942- author.
- Series:
- A UNSW Press book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Antiquities.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Sydney (N.S.W.)--Antiquities.
- Sydney (N.S.W.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This second edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research, as well as oral evidence of present-day Aboriginal people, to reveal the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region before, during and for the first thirty years of British settlement. Val Attenbrow describes the different Aboriginal groups and how they lived; the resources available; the foods they ate and their means of obtaining them; their tools, weapons and equipment, and how they were made; where they camped; their shelters, clothing and personal adornment; their beliefs, ceremonial life and rituals; as well as their designs and images.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CAUTION
- GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: A CLARI FICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- THE GATHERERS OF THE DATA
- THE PEOPLE ANDTHEIR COUNTRY: NUMBERS, NAMES AND LANGUAGE S
- THE RICH RESOURCES OF THE LAND AND ITS WATERS
- IDENTIFYING WHERE PEOPLE CAMPED AND LAND USE PATTERNS
- THEIR SOCIAL ORGANISATION
- THE FOODS PEOPLE ATE AND HOW THEY WERE OBTAINED
- THEIR TOOLS, WEAPONS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT
- SHELTER, CLOTHING AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT
- MAKING USE OF AVAILABLE RAW MATERIALS
- BELIEFS, TOTEMS, RITES AND CEREMONIES
- DESIGNS AND IMAGES
- THE TIME LINE: AN OVERVIEW
- Sites-to-visit supplement
- Notes
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 2002.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781742231174
- 1742231179
- OCLC:
- 659579866
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