The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: First radiocarbon determinations

Lilley, Ian; Ulm, Sean; Brian, Deborah

doi:10.1080/03122417.1996.11681579

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“…Analysis (including studies of foraminifers) and radiocarbon dating of the excavated materials revealed a complex site formation history, with interfingering cultural and natural shell deposits in some areas of the site Carter et al 1999;Lilley et al 1996). Probable cultural deposits at The Granites were dated to 2,335 cal BP (Wk-3941) -a relatively early date in the context of other sites on the Queensland coast (see Ulm et al 1995).…”

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“…The project was initiated by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland in collaboration with Aboriginal people from the study area. The broader project includes studies in archaeology, history, contemporary social landscapes and linguistics in a region which coincides with the area broadly identified as the country of Gooreng Gooreng speakers at the time of European invasion (see Clarkson et al n.d.;Jolly 1994;Lilley et al 1998;Lilley and Ulm 1995;Lilley et al 1996;Ulm 2002bUlm , 2002cUlm et al 1999a.To date, the archaeological component of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project has concentrated on the Cania Gorge area as an inland component of the study, where Aboriginal occupation has been dated to the early Holocene (Chapman 1999(Chapman , 2002Eales 1998;Eales et al 1999;Lilley et al 1998;Westcott 1997;Westcott et al 1999a;Westcott et al 1999b), and the southern Curtis Coast, centred on the Town of Seventeen Seventy, as a coastal component and subject of the present study. …”

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Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland : An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland

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terra australis 24Terra 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.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 994.01Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2006. 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. THE RESEARCH DOCUMENTED here represents the first systematic archaeological work in this area of the southeast Queensland coast and was undertaken as a major part of a larger, multicomponent project concerning archaeology and cultural heritage in the traditional country of Gooreng Gooreng speaking people. Sean's task was to build upon the results of exploratory site survey and excavation to address two key concerns. The first was the relationship of patterns of cultural change in his study area to those described elsewhere in southeast Queensland. The second was to ensure that any such comparisons were taphonomically well-founded, particularly with regard to the analytical integrity of the shell middens upon which he and other coastal researchers in Australia rely so heavily. Sean took to this task with a vengeance, closely surveying a large area of landscape and excavating an array of site types to provide himself with a solid sample of the archaeological variation thus revealed. Though most were not archaeologically rich, these sites provided substantial grist for Sean's taphonomic mill, prompting him to adapt conjoining techniques to work on bivalve shellfish -a simple but clever innovation -as well as to undertake much more sophisticated work on local variation in correction factors for the radiocarbon dating of marine shell. In the end, he was able to distil the three-phase cul...

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“…On the basis of conventional criteria used to distinguish middens, namely the presence of larger shells, bone, charcoal and stone artefacts, The Granites excavation was concluded to have exposed a shell midden overlying a chenier deposit resting on microgranite bedrock. More detailed examination of the shell assemblage indicated that there was a veneer of culturallydeposited shell on top oh the basal chenier (Carter 1997;Lilley et al 1996). The natural formation proved to be substantially older than the cultural shells lying directly on its surface (see discussion below).…”

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“…In previous publications the site has been called 'Rodds Peninsula' (Lilley et al 1996) and the 'Rodds Peninsula Site Complex' (Carter 1997). The site is registered as Queensland State File Number KE:A41 and Queensland Museum Site Number S866.…”

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Mort Creek Site Complex, Curtis Coast: Site Report

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This paper reports the results of excavations conducted at the Mort Creek Site Complex, located in the Rodds Peninsula Section of Eurimbula National Park on the southern Curtis Coast, Central Queensland. Cultural and natural marine shell deposits were excavated and analysed as part of an investigation of natural and cultural site formation processes in the area. Analyses (including foraminifera studies) demonstrate a complex site formation history, with interfingering of cultural and natural shell deposits (cheniers) in some areas of the site. Radiocarbon dating indicates that Aboriginal occupation of the site was initiated before 2,000 cal BP, overlapping with dates obtained for natural chenier deposits.

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