Into the heart of Tasmania : : a search for human antiquity / / Rebe Taylor.
In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Carlton, Victoria : : Melbourne University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 pages) :; illustrations |
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| Summary: | In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past. --Back cover. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780522867961 9780522867978 (ebook) |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Rebe Taylor. |