Academic References
Resources and LinksAboriginal Knowledge Traditions
- David, Bruno, and Harry Lourandos. 1999. “Landscape as mind: land use, cultural space and change in north Queensland prehistory.” Quaternary International 59:107-23.
- Turnbull, David. 1993. Maps Are Territories; Science is an Atlas. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
- Watson, Helen, Yolngu community at Yirrkala, and David Wade Chambers. 1989. Singing The Land, Signing The Land. Geelong: Deakin University Press.
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
- NGV exhibition on indigenous weather knowledge
- Bureau of Meteorology Geriwerd Calendar
- Museum of Victoria Eastern Kulin Calendar
- Green, Donna, Jack Billy, and Alo Tapim. 2010. “Indigenous Australians’ knowledge of weather and climate.” Climatic Change 100:337–354. doi: DOI 10.1007/s10584-010-9803-z.
Aboriginal Tribes
- 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
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Lane, Sharon. 2009. Aboriginal stone structures in southwestern Victoria. Collingwood: Qu.A.C.
Mounds
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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.
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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