Where's the evidence? The archaeology of Sydney's Aboriginal history

Irish, Paul; Goward, Tamika

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.2012.tb00117.x

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“…At the other end may be places in the built environment—sites of labor, residence, or even exclusion and persecution. These types of resources have, for the time being at least, slipped through the net of archaeological recording because of enduring disciplinary boundaries and recording practices that continue to equate Indigenous people with the precontact past (Byrne 2003:81–83; Irish and Goward 2012; Silliman 2010).…”

Section: Unearthing Patterns Of Coast Miwok Presencementioning

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Categorical Denial: Evaluating Post-1492 Indigenous Erasure in the Paper Trail of American Archaeology

Panich

Schneider

2019

Am. Antiq.

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To understand the implications of archaeological site recording practices and associated inventories for studying Indigenous persistence after the arrival of Europeans, we examined the documentary record associated with nearly 900 archaeological sites in Marin County, California. Beginning with the first regional surveys conducted during the early 1900s and continuing into the present, the paper trail created by archaeologists reveals an enduring emphasis on precontact materials to the exclusion of more recent patterns of Indigenous occupation and land use. In assessing sites occupied by Indigenous people from the late sixteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, we discuss how the use of multiple lines of evidence—including temporally diagnostic artifacts, chronometric dating techniques, and historical documentation—may help illuminate subtle but widespread patterns of Native presence that have been obscured by essentialist assumptions about Indigenous culture change. Our findings further reveal the shortcomings of traditional site recording systems, in which archaeologists typically categorize sites within the prehistoric-protohistoric-historic triad on the basis of commonsense decisions that conflate chronology with identity. Instead, we argue for recording practices that focus specifically on the calendric ages of occupation for any given site.

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Section: Unearthing Patterns Of Coast Miwok Presencementioning

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“…That both sites (CA-MRN-10 and CA-MRN-115) are categorized solely as prehistoric in the CHRIS database perpetuates this bias. Similar patterns of site recording have limited archaeological understanding of Indigenous presence in colonial contexts and urban areas elsewhere (Irish and Goward 2012).…”

Section: Unearthing Patterns Of Coast Miwok Presencementioning

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Categorical Denial: Evaluating Post-1492 Indigenous Erasure in the Paper Trail of American Archaeology

Panich

Schneider

2019

Am. Antiq.

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Flaked Glass Artifacts from Nineteenth–Century Native Mounted Police Camps in Queensland, Australia

Perston

Wallis

Burke

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Int J Histor Archaeol

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The invasion of the Australian continent by Europeans caused massive disruptions to Indigenous cultures and ways of life. The adoption of new raw materials, often for the production of "traditional" artifact forms, is one archaeological indicator of the changes wrought by "colonization." Two camp sites associated with the Queensland Native Mounted Police (NMP), a punitive paramilitary government force that operated through the latter half of the nineteenth century in the northeastern part of the continent, contain abundant flaked glass artifacts. These were undoubtedly manufactured by the Aboriginal men who were employed as troopers in the NMP, and/or their wives and children. Produced using traditional stone working techniques applied to a novel raw material, these artifacts are a tangible demonstration of the messy entanglements experienced by people living and working in this particularand in some ways unique -cross-cultural context. For the Aboriginal troopers stationed in alien landscapes, the easy accessibility of glass afforded a means by which they could maintain cultural practices and exert independence from their employers, unencumbered by traditional normative behaviors.

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Commentary: ‘I dwell in Possibility’ — ethical futures for heritage and archaeology

Ireland

2014

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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Where's the evidence? The archaeology of Sydney's Aboriginal history

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Categorical Denial: Evaluating Post-1492 Indigenous Erasure in the Paper Trail of American Archaeology

Categorical Denial: Evaluating Post-1492 Indigenous Erasure in the Paper Trail of American Archaeology

Flaked Glass Artifacts from Nineteenth–Century Native Mounted Police Camps in Queensland, Australia

Commentary: ‘I dwell in Possibility’ — ethical futures for heritage and archaeology

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