Flaked Glass Artifacts from Nineteenth–Century Native Mounted Police Camps in Queensland, Australia
Autor: | Colin McLennan, Bryce Barker, Elizabeth Hatte, Yinika Perston, Lynley A. Wallis, Heather Burke |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
History Archeology Government Artifact (archaeology) 060102 archaeology media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Punitive damages Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Alien Indigenous culture 01 natural sciences Independence Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Ethnology 0601 history and archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
Zdroj: | International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 26:789-822 |
ISSN: | 1573-7748 1092-7697 |
Popis: | 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 particular — and 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. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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