The Moth Hunters : Aboriginal Prehistory of the Australian Alps / Josephine Flood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacock, Josephine, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Antiquities.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : Australian Inst. of Aboriginal Studies, [1980]

Summary:

A ground-breaking pre-history of the Australian Alps.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of plates

List of figures

Notes

The Moth Hunters

Chapter 1 Archaeological background

Chapter 2 Geographical setting

Chapter 3 Ethnohistorical evidence

Chapter 4 Demography

Chapter 5 Material culture

Chapter 6 Of moths and men

Chapter 7 Economy

Chapter 8 Tribal territories, relations, trade, customs, beliefs, organisation and languages

Chapter 9 Rock art and ceremonial grounds of the Southern Uplands

Chapter 10 Settlement patterns in the Canberra region

Chapter 11 Settlement patterns in the Alps

Chapter 12 Artifact types in the Southern Uplands

Chapter 13 Stone assemblages of open campsites

Chapter 14 The Recent Period: nine excavated rock-shelters of the Small Tool Tradition

Chapter 15 Southern approaches: environmental and cultural evidence from the Pleistocene deposit of Cloggs Cave

Chapter 16 Prehistory of the Southern Uplands

Appendices

Appendix IA Ethnohistorical evidence of burning by Aborigines in the Southern Uplands

Appendix IB Ethnohistorical records of population in the Southern Uplands

Appendix IIAEthnohistorical records of spears in the Southern Uplands

Appendix IIB Ethnohistorical records of wearing apparel in the Southern Uplands: skin cloaks

Appendix IIC Ethnohistorical records of habitations in the Southern Uplands

Appendix IIIA Ethnohistorical observations of the food quest in the Southern Uplands

Appendix IIIC Food resources: edible native freshwater fishes of the Southern Uplands

Appendix IV Recorded journeys and tribal movements

Appendix V The physiography and vegetation of the Australian Capital Territory

Appendix VIA Analysis of bipolar scaled pieces

Appendix VIB Analysis of backed blades

Appendix VII Measurement of artifacts

Appendix VIII Excavation methods.

Appendix IX Excavated rock-shelters of southern N.S.W and the A.C.T

Appendix X Open campsite of Nardoo, Lake George, New South Wales

Appendix XII Aboriginal sites mentioned in the text in south-eastern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and north-eastern Victoria

Bibliography

Additional Colour Plates

Glossary.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Flood, Josephine The Moth Hunters

ISBN:

1-925883-46-9