The Prehistory of the Kakadu People1

White, Carmel

doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1967.tb01029.x

Cited by 13 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Secondary burial is also common in Arnhem Land, with the body first being either excarnated on a platform built in a tree, or buried for a season, before disinterring and wrapping in paperbark to be placed elsewhere, perhaps on a rock ledge and into rock shelters (White : 431). At the rock shelter sites of Paribari and Malangangerr, also close to Madjedbebe, Schrire (: 56) found abundant evidence of secondary burials in the form of bones that had been “burnt, broken and stuffed into the [rock shelter] niche packed around with grass, bark and other debris”.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ground‐penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia

Lowe

Wallis

Pardoe

et al. 2014

Archaeology in Oceania

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ground‐penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia

Lowe

Wallis

Pardoe

et al. 2014

Archaeology in Oceania

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Nakodjok is reputed to have been the last 'hearer' of this language, which has been displaced by Kunwinggu. Until this research, excavations had not been conducted in Manilikarr country since the 1960s (Schrire 1982;White 1967aWhite , 1967bWhite , 1971White and Peterson 1969), although several other rockshelters have been excavated more recently in close proximity to the estate (e.g. Allen and Barton 1989;Jones 1985;Kamminga and Allen 1973).…”

Section: Manilikarr Countrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Birriwilk rockshelter: A mid- to late Holocene site in ManilikarrCountry, southwest Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

Shine¹,

Wright²,

Denham³

et al. 2013

Australian Archaeology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Initially White (1967b) hypothesized that assemblage differences were a consequence of the long-term co-existence of two cultural groups who possessed similar stone-tool traditions but emphasized different elements within them. She argued that prehistoric contrasts between plateau and plain were consistent with economic patterns observed in resident Aboriginal groups in the early decades of the twentieth century.…”

Section: Traditional Depictions Of Assemblage Variation In Arnhem Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reduction, Recycling, and Raw Material Procurement in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

Hiscock

2009

Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Complex lithic assemblage variation in Arnhem Land, Australia, was initially explained by suggestions that multiple cultural groups had co-existed or that a single group had used different toolkits as they moved seasonally to exploit temporary resources. These models have proved untenable and differences in assemblage composition across the landscape are now explained in terms of procurement economics: as knappers rationed, recycled, and substituted artifacts in response to the varying cost of obtaining replacement stone in each location. The economics of raw material use, and its articulation with technological strategies suited to different contexts of mobility and risk, provides mechanisms that can explain the persistence of geographical differences in artifact assemblages but which can also make sense of temporal subtle changes in technological activities. Unlike earlier archeological theories, we can now conclude that site function and identity of the local residence groups were factors of little significance in the production of assemblage differences.Questions of why lithic assemblages display variation have been central to the explorations of Paleolithic societies on every continent. Increased understanding of lithic technology and more detailed paleoenvironmental reconstructions have, over recent decades, led to revision of many models about the character of assemblage variability and its articulation with past physical and social environments. In the context of Australia, where Paleolithic technology and economies existed until the last few centuries, reconceptualizing prehistoric ways of life involved abandoning linear models of cultural progression and recognizing that Paleolithic economic and technological systems were elaborate and dynamically changing (Hiscock 2008). These qualities are illustrated in new models of Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies Edited by Brian Adams and Brooke S. Blades

show abstract

The Prehistory of the Kakadu People1

Cited by 13 publications

References 1 publication

Ground‐penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia

Ground‐penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia

Birriwilk rockshelter: A mid- to late Holocene site in ManilikarrCountry, southwest Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

Reduction, Recycling, and Raw Material Procurement in Western Arnhem Land, Australia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About