Academic References

Resources and Links

Aboriginal Knowledge Traditions

Astronomy

http://www.aboriginalastronomy.com.au

  • Clarke, Philip. 1997. “The Aboriginal Cosmic Landscape of Southern South Australia.”  Records of the South Australian Museum 29 (2):125-145.
  • Clarke, Philip A. 2009. “Australian Aboriginal Ethnometeorology and Seasonal Calendars.”  History and Anthropology 20 (2):9–106. doi: DOI: 10.1080/02757200902867677
  • Hamacher, Duane W., and Ray P. Norris. 2011. ““Bridging the Gap” through Australian Cultural Astronomy.” In Oxford IX: International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy & Astronomy in Culture
  • Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 278, edited by Clive Ruggles.
  • Leaman, Trevor. 2019. “Reading the Indigenous night sky to interpret wildlife patterns.”  Wildlife Australia (Winter).
  • Norris, Ray P. 2016. “Dawes Review 5: Australian Aboriginal Astronomy and Navigation.”  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Trading Paths

  • Clark, Ian D. 2018. “Trade.” In Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists, edited by Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark and Philip A. Clarke, 229-47. Clayton South: CSIRO.
  • Kerwin, Dale. 2010. Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes: The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
  • McBryde, Isabel. 1984. “East Kulin Greenstone Quarries: The Social Contexts of Production and Distribution for the Mt William Site.”  World Archaeology 16 (2: Mines and Quarries):267-85.
  • McBryde, Isabel. 1989. “”…To Establish a Commerce of This Sort’- Cultural Exchange at the Port Jackson Settlement.” In Studies from Terra Australis to Australia, edited by John Hardy and Alan Frost, 169-82. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities.
  • McBryde, Isabel. 2000. “Travellers in Storied Landscapes: A Case Study in Exchanges and Heritage.”  Aboriginal History 24:152-74.
  • McBryde, Isabel. 2014. ” Reflections on the Development of the Associative Cultural Landscapes Concept.”  Historic Environment 26 (1):14-32.
  • Spooner, P. G., M. Firman, and Yalmambirra. 2010. “Origins of Travelling Stock Routes. 1. Connections to Indigenous traditional pathways.”  The Rangeland Journal 32:329–339.

Aquaculture

  • Builth, Heather. 2014. Ancient Aboriginal Aquaculture Rediscovered- The Archaeology of an Australian Cultural Landscape. Saarbrucken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
  • Clarke, Anne (April 1994). “Romancing the Stones. The Cultural Construction of an Archaeological Landscape in the Western District of Victoria”. Archaeology in Oceania. 29 (1): 1–17. doi:10.1002/arco.1994.29.1.1. JSTOR 40386978.
  • Coutts, PJF; Frank, R. K.; Hughes, P.; Vanderwal, R. L. (1978). Aboriginal Engineers of the Western District, Victoria. Records of the Victorian Archaeological Survey. Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. ISSN 0158-9679.
  • McNiven, Ian. 2017. The detective work behind the Budj Bim eel traps World Heritage bid. The Conversation.

Ecosystems

  • David, Bruno; Haberle, Simon G.; Walker, Donald (2012). “Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes.” (PDF). In Haberle, Simon G.; David, Bruno (eds.). Peopled landscapes: the impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian Quaternary science. Canberra: ANU E Press. pp. 3–2.
  • Gammage, Bill. 2011. The Biggest Estate on Earth – How Aborigines made Australia. Melbourne: Allen and Unwin.
  • Pascoe, Bruce. 2014. Dark Emu: Black Seeds Agriculture or Accident? . Perth: Magabala Books.

Paleoecology, Geology and Volcanic Activity

  • Barras, Colin. 2020. “Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?”  Science. doi: doi:10.1126/science.abb2656.
  • Flannery, Tim. 2002. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People: Grove Press.
  • Griffiths, Billy. 2018. Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia. Carlton, Victoria: Black Ink.
  • Matchan, Erin, and David Phillips. 2020. “Victoria’s volcanic history confirms the state’s aboriginal inhabitation before 34,000 years.”  Pursuit.
  • Matchan, Erin L.; Phillips, David; Jourdan, Fred; Oostingh, Korien (2020). “Early human occupation of southeastern Australia: New insights from 40Ar/39Ar dating of young volcanoes”. Geology. 48 (4): 390–394

Sea level rise, formation of Bass Strait: Oral Traditions and current climate change risks

  • Darryl Low Choy, Philip Clarke, David Jones, Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Robert Hales, and Olivia Koschade. 2013. Aboriginal reconnections: Understanding coastal urban and peri-urban Indigenous people’s vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change. Gold Coast: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
  • Nunn, Patrick D. 2018. Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World: Bloomsbury Sigma.
  • Nunn, Patrick D., and Nicholas J. Reid. 2016. “Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast Dating from More than 7000
  • Years Ago.”  Australian Geographer 47 (1):11-47. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2015.1077539.

Megafauna stories and their extinction

  • Bednarik, Robert G. 2013. “Megafauna Depictions in Australian Rock Art.”  Rock Art Research 30 (2):197-215.
  • Cane, Scott. 2013. First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians. Melbourne: Allen and Unwin.
  • Gunn, ben, Ray Whear, and Leigh Douglas. 2011. “What bird is that? Identifying a Probable Painting of Genyornis newtoni in Western Arnhem Land.”  Australian Archaeology 73 (8).

Weather

Aboriginal Tribes

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  • Clark, Ian D, ed. 2014. The Journals of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate: Vols 1-6.
  • Clendinnen, Inga. 1995. “Reading Mr Robinson.”  Australian Book Review (170).
  • A brilliant essay that captures the inherent paradoxical contradiction that lies at the heart of colonialist attempts at conciliation.
  • Dawson, James. 1981 (1st ed 1881). Australian Aborigines: The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
  • Howitt, A. W. 1996 (1st ed 1904). The Native Tribes of South-east Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
  • Presland, Guy. 1994. Aboriginal Melbourne: The Lost Land of the Kulin People. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett 1974. Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

Aboriginal Settlement Patterns

  • Gerritsen, Rupert. 2000. The Traditional Settlement Pattern in South West Victoria Reconsidered. Australian National University Canberra: Intellectual Property Publications.
  • Lourandos, H. 1980b Change or stability? : Hydraulics, hunter-gatherers and population in temperate Australia. World Archaeology 11(3):245-264.
  • Lourandos, H. 1985 Intensification and Australian prehistory. In T. D. Price and J. A. Brown (eds) Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers: The Emergence of Complexity, pp.385-423. San Diego: Academic Press
  • Aboriginal Networks and Spaces, Encounters and diplomacy
  • See ‘strings of connectedness’, Dreaming tracks, songlines. Message sticks, Sign language
  • Keen, Ian. 1995. “Metaphor and the Meta-Language: ‘Groups’ in Northeast Arnhemland.”  American Ethnologist 22:502-527.
  • Tacon, Paul. 2005. “Chains of Connection.”  Griffith Review (9).
  • Turnbull, David. 2001. “Cultural Encounters, Go-betweens, and the Tense Topography of the Intercultural Zone.” In William Buckley:  Rediscovered, 18-25. Geelong: Geelong Gallery.
  • Turnbull, David. 2009. “Boundary-Crossings, Cultural Encounters and Knowledge Spaces in Early Australia.” In The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence 1770-1820, edited by Simon Schaffer, Lissa Roberts, Kapil Raj and James Delbourgo, 387-428. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications.

Aboriginal Trading Materials and Artefacts

  • Ochre/Jarosite
  • Ironbark Spears
  • Mt William greenstone axes
  • Lake Condah eels
  • Nets and containers
  • Bushfield axe
  • Possum skin
  • Grinding stones

Great Ocean Road Aboriginal Sites

  • Wardi Youang
  • Torquay Museum Without Walls
  • Ironbark Basin Jarosite Mine
  • Moyjil (Point Ritchie, Warrnambool)
  • Budj Bim, Lake Condah
  • Tower Hill
  • Lake Bolac
  • Mt Eccles
  • Geelong Art Gallery
  • Narana Aboriginal Cultural Centre Geelong
  • Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne
  • Brambuk The National Park and Cultural Centre,
  • Halls Gap
  • Grampians/Geriwerd Rock Art
  • Gunditjmara Aboriginal Cooperative, Heywood
  • Carisbrook stone arrangements

Fishtraps

  • Lane, Sharon. 2009. Aboriginal stone structures in southwestern Victoria. Collingwood: Qu.A.C.

Mounds

  • Pardoe, Colin, and Dan Hutton. 2020. ” Aboriginal heritage as ecological proxy in south-eastern Australia: a Barapa wetland village.”  Australasian Journal of Environmental Management,. doi: 10.1080/14486563.2020.1821400.

  • 2019. Fact sheet: Aboriginal mounds. The Heritage Registrar: Aboriginal Victoria.

Massacres

  • Cahir, Fred. 2019. “My Country All Gone, the White Men Have Stolen It”: The invasion of Wadawurrung Country, 1800-1870. Ballarat: Australian History Matters.
  • Clark, Ian D. (1998). “That’s My Country Belonging to Me”: Aboriginal Land Tenure and Dispossession in Nineteenth Century Western Victoria. Heritage Matters. ISBN 978-1-876-40406-2.
  • Clark, Ian D. (2011). “The Convincing Ground Aboriginal massacre at Portland Bay, Victoria: fact or fiction?”. Aboriginal History. 35. doi:10.22459/AH.35.2011.04.
  • Clark, Ian D. (2014a). “The Convincing Ground, Portland Bay, Victoria, Australia: An Exploration of the Controversy Surrounding its Onomastic History”. Names: A Journal of Onomastics. 62 (1): 3-12. doi:10.1179/0027773813Z.00000000059. S2CID 143416827.
  • Critchett, Jan (1990) [First published 1988]. A ‘distant field of murder’: Western District frontiers, 1834–1848. Melbourne University Press