| Description |
xiii, 225 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 31 cm |
| Contents |
chapter headings: The gatherers of the data; The people and their country: numbers, names and languages; The rich resources of the land and its waters; Identifying where people camped and land use patterns; Their social organisation; The foods peopleate 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 209-218 |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
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Historic sites -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
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Aborigines, Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Antiquities
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Aborigines, Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- New South Wales -- Sydney
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Historic sites -- New South Wales -- Sydney
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Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
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Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Antiquities
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
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| SUBJECT |
Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Antiquities
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| LC no. |
2002483890 |
| ISBN |
086840585X |
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0868406783 (pbk.) |
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