by CareEditor | Apr 25, 2022 | Understanding how First People’s viewed their world
An Encyclopedia of Tasmanian Aboriginal Anthropology BARRY H. BRIMFIELD 2020 CE ARCHAEOLOGY – ITS HISTORY On the 18th February 1802 the Botanist, Leschenault, of the French exploration expedition led by Nicholas Baudin while at Maria Island, came across a small mound...
by CareEditor | Mar 21, 2022 | The Launceston Basin
The Geomorphology of the kalamaluka-Tamar Valley Tom Dunning Formation of the Tamar Graben The kalamaluka-Tamar Valley is the product of 200 million years of geological evolution. The story begins at a time when the old super-continent of Gondwanaland began splitting...
by CareEditor | Dec 21, 2021 | Holocene Tasmania
Four hundred metres long and a metre high: What were these middens? By Michael Powell. The considerable size of some Aboriginal middens raises questions. These are constructed consciously and deliberately – they are not the result of people idly tossing discarded...
by CareEditor | Jul 28, 2021 | The Launceston Basin
Does this amount to ‘farming’ or ‘agriculture’? Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu has stirred considerable controversy and recent work by Peter Sutton & Keryn Walshe has subject it to critical academic analysis. Not only questioning some of his evidence, they believe Pascoe...
by CareEditor | Jul 27, 2021 | Understanding how First People’s viewed their world
An Encounter with the First People of Northern Van Diemen’s Land 1642 – 1812, Tasman to the end of the First Epoch Ian Pattie, July 2021 Abstract Dutch, French, and British explorers set foot in Van Diemen’s Land from 1642 bringing with them a range of preconceptions...
by CareEditor | Jan 28, 2021 | Understanding how First People’s viewed their world
FOOD FORAGING (PART 2 “FORAGING & FOOD PREPARATION”) Part 1 “Food Resources” summarised the available fauna and flora, this final section briefly explains the techniques used to obtain the protein and carbohydrates contained within them by hunting, gathering and...
by CareEditor | Jan 28, 2021 | Understanding how First People’s viewed their world
FOOD FORAGING (PART 1 FOOD RESOURCES 2,000 > BP) The Tasmanian Aborigines occupied their island home for at least 40,000 years but it is only the last 2,000 years that is considered here and only mainland Tasmania and offshore islands. A relatively rich area of...
by CareEditor | Jan 28, 2021 | Understanding how First People’s viewed their world
An Encounter with the First People of Northern Van Diemen’s Land A Particularistic Mindset Ian Pattie, July 2021 When Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson brought a group of white settlers – soldiers, convicts, and farmers – to Port Dalrymple, Van Diemen’s Land, the...
by CareEditor | Jan 28, 2021 | Understanding how First People’s viewed their world
Tamar Valley Geology Determining the First Peoples Occupation of Northern Van Diemen’s Land Ian Pattie, November 2020 Abstract The forces of nature – volcanic, glacial, fault and the like – lay down a rough-hewn sculpture upon which other weathering forces produce a...
by CareEditor | Jan 28, 2021 | The Launceston Basin
Tamar Valley Geology and British Settlement Addendum: to Tamar Valley Geology Determining the First Peoples Occupation of Northern Van Diemen’s Land Addendum: to Tamar Valley Geology Determining the First Peoples Occupation of Northern Van Diemen’s Land Abstract The...
by CareEditor | Dec 29, 2020 | The Launceston Basin
The Garden that became Launceston Jamie KirkpatrickSchool of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania Rivers wear away the ancient Tasmanian mountains, depositing their mineral wealth in flood plains and estuaries. This depositional richness is...
by CareEditor | Dec 29, 2020 | Envisaging Landscape
A Vast Estate Managed with Purpose In 2011 Bill Gammage published his controversial, The Biggest Estate of Earth: How the Aborigines made Australia. He refuted the idea of Aborigines as nomadic wanderers idling across the landscape. Instead, he saw the Aborigines as...
