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 | 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 | 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 | Nov 4, 2020 | The Launceston Basin
Does this amount to ‘farming’ or ‘agriculture’? The work of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu argues for a substantial shift in language from ‘hunter-gatherer’ to terms like ‘farming’ and ‘agriculture’. Certainly, Indigenous land use has suffered the suggestion of ‘savage’ and...
