Title Gariwerd : an environmental history of the Grampians / Benjamin Wilkie

Published Clayton South VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 134 pages ): illustrations (some color), maps Contents Introduction -- 1: The restless Earth -- 2: The first people of Gariwerd -- 3: Strangers in a foreign land -- 4: Dispossession and environmental transformation -- 5: Science, resources and industry -- 6: The Grampians National Park -- 7: Colonial legacies Summary People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians explores the geological and ecological significance of the mountains and combines research from across disciplines to tell the story of how humans and the environment have interacted, and how the ways people have thought about the environments of the ranges have changed through time. In this new account, historian Benjamin Wilkie examines how Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali people and their ancestors lived in and around the mountains, how they managed the land and natural resources, and what kinds of archaeological evidence they have left behind over the past 20 000 years. He explores the history of European colonisation in the area from the middle of the 19th century and considers the effects of this on both the first people of Gariwerd and the environments of the ranges and their surrounding plains in western Victoria. The book covers the rise of science, industry and tourism in the mountains, and traces the eventual declaration of the Grampians National Park in 1984. Finally, it examines more recent debates about the past, present and future of the park, including over its significant Indigenous history and heritage Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Human ecology -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.) Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.) -- Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.) Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.) -- History Ethnobiology -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.) SCIENCE / General. Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities Ethnobiology Excavations (Archaeology) Human ecology Nature -- Effect of human beings on SUBJECT Grampians National Park (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007095 Subject Australia Victoria -- Grampians Victoria -- Grampians National Park Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author CSIRO Publishing, issuing body. ISBN 9781486307692 1486307698 9781486307708 1486307701

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