Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity / Rebe Taylor
- Bib ID:
- 7250756
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Taylor, Rebe, author
- Access Conditions:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this publication contains names and images of deceased persons.
- Description:
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- Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing Limited 2017
- ©2017
- 270 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780522867961 (paperback)
- Summary:
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“In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past.”--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-254) and index.
- Subject:
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- Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social life and customs
- Anthropology -- Tasmania -- History
- Archaeology -- Tasmania -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Implements -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Land tenure
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Languages -- Sources
- Ethnologists -- England -- Biography
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Collections and acquisitions
- Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Technology - Stone
- Palaeontology
- Archaeology
- Tasmania -- History -- 20th century
- Flinders Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Oyster Cove (SE Tas SK55-08)
- Truwana / Cape Barren Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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