Macassans and Aborigines

Macknight, Campbell

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1972.tb01183.x

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“…For several centuries prior to the European colonisation of Australia, Macassan sailors came annually to the northern coast of Arnhem Land to collect and process trepang (MacKnight 1972(MacKnight , 1986Mitchell 1994;Mulvaney 1975;Taçon et al 2010;Wesley et al 2016). The extent of direct contact that inland groups such as the Jawoyn would have had with coastal mariners some 150 km to the northwest, if any, is unknown.…”

Section: The Initial Munanga Contact Period In Jawoyn Landsmentioning

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Postcards from the outside: European-contact rock art imagery and occupation on the southern Arnhem Land plateau, Jawoyn lands

Gunn¹,

David²,

Whear³

et al. 2017

The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

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Section: The Initial Munanga Contact Period In Jawoyn Landsmentioning

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Postcards from the outside: European-contact rock art imagery and occupation on the southern Arnhem Land plateau, Jawoyn lands

Gunn¹,

David²,

Whear³

et al. 2017

The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

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“…For several centuries prior to the European colonisation of Australia, Macassan sailors came annually to the northern coast of Arnhem Land to collect and process trepang (MacKnight 1972(MacKnight , 1986Mitchell 1994;Mulvaney 1975;Taçon et al 2010;. The extent of direct contact that inland groups such as the Jawoyn would have had with coastal mariners some 150 km to the northwest, if any, is unknown.…”

Section: The Initial Munanga Contact Period In Jawoyn Landsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

2017

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terra australis 47Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. Copyright of the text remains with the authors, 2017. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. List of volumes in Terra AustralisTerra Australis Editorial Board: Sue O'Connor, Jack Golson, Simon Haberle, Sally Brockwell, Geoffrey Clark. .6 Long-necked spearthrowers from other locations as recorded by , Lewis (1998), and Welch (1997). 74 .2 This painting depicts a predatory quadruped with a distinctively developed head and muzzle region unlike a thylacine. It is suggested that the robust proportions of the head represent a morphology similar to that of the marsupial lion Thylacoleo carnifex. 149x The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia terra australis 47 .27 Square P after completion of excavation showing south and west walls (the green string is the south side of the square). Note the flat rock surface at base. 266Figure 11.28 Square P east and south sections, with XUs and radiocarbon dates back-plotted. 267Figure 11.29 Square P showing sediments at the base of A: XU16 (average basal depth = 22 cm below ground), a stratigraphic level above that of the dried paint drops; B: XU21 (average basal depth = 28 cm below ground), a stratigraphic level below that of the dried paint drops; C: XU18 (average basal depth = 24 cm below ground), at the stratigraphic level containing the dried paint drops, here visible as lighter-coloured patches. 268 Figure 11.30 Profile view (top) and interpretation (bottom) of GPR data from the southeast to northwest ends of the rockshelter passing through Square P. 270 Figure 11.31 Bayesian age model for Square P produced with OxCal v4.2 (see text for discussion). 272 .37 Edge of the densely pillared, slightly elevated area to the south of the shelter. 280 Figure 11.38 Projected view of the Nawarla Gabarnmang shelter and the densely pillared edge of the slightly elevated area to the south. 281 Figure 11.39 Geomorphological reconstitution of the area around Square P. 284Figure 11.40 Square P: Distribution of stone artefacts and bone + teeth (excluding a particularly large stone artefact weighing 164.0 g from XU3, to enable better visualisation of the overall distribution down the XU profile). 286 Table 2.3 Radiocarbon dates on charcoal from Test Pits B and C, MN05. 36 Table 3.1 Gen...

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“…The main focus of Asian commercial interest in the region was trepang (bêche de mer), but pearl shell, pearls, turtle shell, sandalwood, tin, manganese and dried shark tails were also sought after by the trepangers (Flinders 1814;Warner 1932;Berndt and Berndt 1954;Worsley 1955;Macknight 1976). The archaeology, history and operation of the trepang industry in Arnhem Land, or 'marege' (as it was called by the Macassans), has been described and analysed in extensive detail by Macknight (1969Macknight ( , 1972Macknight ( , 1976. Subsequent studies have broadened our knowledge of both the scope and social impact of the industry (Mulvaney 1975(Mulvaney , 1989Mulvaney and Green 1992;Mitchell 1994Mitchell , 1996Clarke 1994Clarke , 2000aClarke , 2000bMorwood and Hobbs 1997;Clarke and Frederick 2006).…”

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Damper and fish, tea and sugar: post-contact changes in resource use and residence on Groote Eylandt

Clarke¹

2011

Rec West Aust Mus Sup

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-A number of the archaeological sites located and studied on Groote Eylandt were occupied during the very recent past covering the time of contact with Macassans and missionaries. Historical sources relating to the early period of the Church Missionary Society Mission from the 1920s to the 1950s are used in this paper to examine the material record and processes of cross-cultural interaction and change, rather than to recreate a generalised ethnographic past located at some unspecifi ed point in the late Holocene.

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Macassans and Aborigines

Cited by 70 publications

References 37 publications

Postcards from the outside: European-contact rock art imagery and occupation on the southern Arnhem Land plateau, Jawoyn lands

Postcards from the outside: European-contact rock art imagery and occupation on the southern Arnhem Land plateau, Jawoyn lands

The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

Damper and fish, tea and sugar: post-contact changes in resource use and residence on Groote Eylandt

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