2013
DOI: 10.1002/arco.5002
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Niche production strategies and shell matrix site variability at Albatross Bay, Cape York Peninsula

Abstract: Albatross Bay, near Weipa on western Cape York Peninsula, is well known for the large number of anthropogenic late Holocene shell mound sites that occur in the region. Recent research on shell mound formation and use both here and elsewhere across northern Australia has focused upon the extent to which mound formation may have been tied to intensive use of periodically available gluts of the intertidal bivalve Anadara granosa. This paper explores whether such a model applies in the Albatross Bay region, drawin… Show more

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“…This followed on from a range of prior cultural heritage studies he had undertaken as part of work towards the signing and eventual implementation of the Western Cape Communities Coexistence Agreement (WCCCA) -an Indigenous Land Use Agreement between some local Indigenous custodians, local mining interests and other stakeholders (Cribb 1996). A comprehensive field survey of shell mound deposits across the wider catchment added to previous regional shell mound inventories created by Bailey (1975Bailey ( , 1993 and formed the basis of doctoral research by Morrison (2010Morrison ( , 2013b. Following the implementation of cultural heritage provisions within the WCCCA in the early 2000s, the region has seen a proliferation of archaeological surveys that have transformed our understanding of the regional archaeological record (Shiner and Morrison 2009).…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…This followed on from a range of prior cultural heritage studies he had undertaken as part of work towards the signing and eventual implementation of the Western Cape Communities Coexistence Agreement (WCCCA) -an Indigenous Land Use Agreement between some local Indigenous custodians, local mining interests and other stakeholders (Cribb 1996). A comprehensive field survey of shell mound deposits across the wider catchment added to previous regional shell mound inventories created by Bailey (1975Bailey ( , 1993 and formed the basis of doctoral research by Morrison (2010Morrison ( , 2013b. Following the implementation of cultural heritage provisions within the WCCCA in the early 2000s, the region has seen a proliferation of archaeological surveys that have transformed our understanding of the regional archaeological record (Shiner and Morrison 2009).…”
Section: Previous Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A considerable proportion of research on mound sites has occurred at Weipa, on the western coast of Cape York Peninsula (Figure 1), where one of the largest assemblages of such sites occurs (Bailey 1994(Bailey , 1999Morrison 2013b). Over 500 mound sites have been documented in the Weipa area across a wide range of geomorphic and ecological settings (Bailey 1994;Morrison 2013b), with a temporal range of approximately 4000 cal BP to the late 1800s (Holdaway et al 2017;Morrison 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Discussions of the reasons for mound construction are beyond the scope of this thesis, but the drivers of mounding behaviour remain a source of debate (see e.g. Bourke 2000;Brockwell 2006;Clune 2002;Faulkner 2013;Morrison 2003Morrison , 2013Morrison , 2015O'Connor 1999 Bailey 1977Bailey , 1994Bailey et al 1994;Morrison 2003Morrison , 2010Morrison , 2013aMorrison , 2013bMorrison , 2014Morrison , 2015Shiner and Morrison 2009;Shiner et al 2013;Stone 1995). The phenomenon of mound building during the mid to late Holocene is not restricted to the north, however, and shell mounds occur in all parts of the mainland, as well as Tasmania.…”
Section: Southeast Queensland Shell Moundsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…(see Brockwell 2006). There are most likely significant differences in the behaviours that contribute to these different mounded shell deposits, even where sites may manifest archaeologically in very similar ways (Hiscock and Faulkner 2006;Faulkner 2013;Morrison 2003Morrison , 2010Morrison , 2013aMorrison , 2013bMorrison , 2014Morrison , 2015Shiner and Morrison 2009;Shiner et al 2013 Clayton described a shell mound 2-3m high at Bongaree, on the prograded Holocene dunes at the southern end of the island, in what is now the car park of the local supermarket (see Smith 1992).…”
Section: Southeast Queensland Shell Moundsmentioning
confidence: 99%