Shaping the heritage of South Australia / C. Nance ... [et al.]
- Bib ID:
- 2138062
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Longman Cheshire, 1989
- 122 p. : ill., ports., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0582663695 (paperback)
- Summary:
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First chapter on Aboriginal heritage; relationship to land , Dreaming stories about dingoes and goanna woman, culture heroes; description of initiation and burial, ceremonial and archaeological campsites and middens, rock paintings and engravings, ochre quarries, canoe trees, stone arrangements and seasonal movements for food; European settlement resulted in loss of land, establishment of missions and gradual urbanisation; biographical note on Dan Coulthard.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- For junior secondary school students.
- Subject:
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- City planning -- South Australia -- History
- City planning -- South Australia -- Juvenile literature
- Historic buildings -- South Australia -- Juvenile literature
- Environmental policy -- South Australia -- Juvenile literature
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Juvenile literature
- Colonisation
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Sites - Middens
- Art - Rock art - Painting
- Stories and motifs - Lizards / goannas
- Stories and motifs - Dingoes / dogs
- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons
- Habitation - Camps
- Sites - Scarred trees - Canoe trees
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Sites - Quarries - Stone
- Demography - Urbanisation
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Art - Rock painting
- Sites - Quarries - Ochre and pigment
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies - Tree and platform burial
- Art - Rock engraving
- Sites - Stone arrangements
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- South Australia (SA)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Nance, C. (Christopher)
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1989
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