Author: Western Australia. Burrup Rock Art Monitoring Management Committee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Rock paintings Languages : en Pages :
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The Burrup Peninsula is the location of rock art of major archaeological and cultural significance and of several major industrial facilities. This report and recommendations of the Burrup Rock Art Monitoring Management Committee (BRAMMC) provides a summary of its findings in a style that can be readily understood by the general community.
Author: Jo McDonald Publisher: ANU Press ISBN: 1760465364 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 306
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Australia has one of the largest inventories of rock art in the world with pictographs and petroglyphs found almost anywhere that has suitable rock surfaces – in rock shelters and caves, on boulders and rock platforms. First Nations people have been marking these places with figurative imagery, abstract designs, stencils and prints for tens of thousands of years, often engaging with earlier rock markings. The art reflects and expresses changing experiences within landscapes over time, spirituality, history, law and lore, as well as relationships between individuals and groups of people, plants, animals, land and Ancestral Beings that are said to have created the world, including some rock art. Since the late 1700s, people arriving in Australia have been fascinated with the rock art they encountered, with detailed studies commencing in the late 1800s. Through the 1900s an impressive body of research on Australian rock art was undertaken, with dedicated academic study using archaeological methods employed since the late 1940s. Since then, Australian rock art has been researched from various perspectives, including that of Traditional Owners, custodians and other community members. Through the 1900s, there was also growing interest in Australian rock art from researchers across the globe, leading many to visit or migrate to Australia to undertake rock art research. In this volume, the varied histories of Australian rock art research from different parts of the country are explored not only in terms of key researchers, developments and changes over time, but also the crucial role of First Nations people themselves in investigations of this key component of their living heritage.
Author: António Batarda Fernandes Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000623386 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 422
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Global Perspectives for the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock Art Sites responds to the growth in known rock art sites across the globe and addresses the need to investigate natural and human-originated threats to them as well as propose solutions to mitigate resulting deterioration. Bringing together perspectives of international research teams from across five continents, the chapters in this book are divided into four discrete parts that best reflect the worldwide scenarios where conservation and management of open-air rock art sites unfolds: 1) ethics, community and collaborative approaches; 2) methodological tools to support assessment and monitoring; 3) scientific examination and interventions; and 4) global community and collaborative case studies innovating methodologies for ongoing monitoring and management. The diverse origin of contributions results in a holistic and interdisciplinary approach that conciliates perceived intervention necessity, community and stakeholders’ interests, and rigorous scientific analysis regarding open-air rock art conservation and management. The book unites the voices of the global community in tackling a significant challenge: to ensure a better future for open-air rock art. Moving conservation and management of open-air rock art sites in from the periphery of conservation science, this volume is an indispensable guide for archaeologists, conservators and heritage professionals involved in rock art and its preservation.
Author: Terri Janke Publisher: WIPO ISBN: 9280511890 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 172
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Eight case-studies undertaken in Australia, entitled "Minding Culture: Case-Studies on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions" were selected, prepared, researched and written by Ms. Terri Janke, an Australian lawyer. The studies have been incorported together in WIPO/GRTKF/STUDY/2.
Author: José Antonio González Zarandona Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812296982 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 313
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A fascinating case study of the archaeological site at Murujuga, Australia Located in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia, Murujuga is the single largest archaeological site in the world. It contains an estimated one million petroglyphs, or rock art motifs, produced by the Indigenous Australians who have historically inhabited the archipelago. To date, there has been no comprehensive survey of the site's petroglyphs or those who created them. Since the 1960s, regional mining interests have caused significant damage to this site, destroying an estimated 5 to 25 percent of the petroglyphs in Murujuga. Today, Murujuga holds the unenviable status of being one of the most endangered archaeological sites in the world. José Antonio González Zarandona provides a full postcolonial analysis of Murujuga as well as a geographic and archaeological overview of the site, its ethnohistory, and its considerable significance to Indigenous groups, before examining the colonial mistreatment of Murujuga from the seventeenth century to the present. Drawing on a range of postcolonial perspectives, Zarandona reads the assaults on the rock art of Murujuga as instances of what he terms "landscape iconoclasm": the destruction of art and landscapes central to group identity in pursuit of ideological, political, and economic dominance. Viewed through the lens of landscape iconoclasm, the destruction of Murujuga can be understood as not only the result of economic pressures but also as a means of reinforcing—through neglect, abandonment, fragmentation, and even certain practices of heritage preservation—the colonial legacy in Western Australia. Murujuga provides a case study through which to examine, and begin to reject, archaeology's global entanglement with colonial intervention and the politics of heritage preservation.
Author: Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation Publisher: ISBN: 9780646831596 Category : Languages : en Pages : 118
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Living Knowledge: The Plants of Murujuga was produced based on three field surveys in 2009 and a followup survey in 2011 to fill in data gaps. For each field survey, representatives from the five Traditional Custodian language groups at that time - the Yaburara, Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi, Mardudhunera and Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo - were nominated to attend, along with the project botanist, linguist and a Woodside representative.The group visited numerous sites across the Burrup Peninsula, collecting plant samples and recording stories of their traditional uses. The plants collected were taken back to Roebourne following each survey to be discussed with a wider audience, including any Elders who were unable to visit the field sites.Local botanist Vicki Long recorded all knowledge collated, identified plant species and lodged them with the WA Herbarium. Linguist Eleanor Deake (Wanka Maya) provided interpretation of language for the 2009 surveys and Kerry Churnside (Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation) assisted with language for the 2011 survey. Information was written as it was given and in each case the informants name was recorded. Since the time of the surveys, Murujuga National Park has been recognised and is jointly managed by Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA). This book will be used by MAC and the DBCA to assist with the management of the National Park and to share the wealth of traditional knowledge from those who have custody over it.
Author: Carol V. Ruppe Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461505356 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 876
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Although underwater archaeology has assumed its rightful place as an important subdiscipline in the field, the published literature has not kept pace with the rapid increase in the number of both prehistoric and historic underwater sites. The editors have assembled an internationally distinguished roster of contributors to fill this gap. The book presents geographical and topical approaches, and focuses on technology, law, public and private institutional roles and goals, and the research and development of future technologies and public programs.
Author: Western Australia. Burrup Rock Art Monitoring Management Committee
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Author: Burrup Rock Art Monitoring Management Committee
Author: Jo McDonald
Author: António Batarda Fernandes
Author: Sinclair Knight Merz (Firm)
Author: Terri Janke
Author: José Antonio González Zarandona
Author: Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation
Author: Carol V. Ruppe