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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922.
Aboriginal Tasmanians Antiquities Collection and preservation.
Aboriginal Tasmanians Implements History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians Land tenure.
Aboriginal Tasmanians Languages Sources.
Ethnologists England Biography.
Aboriginal Tasmanians History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians Social life and customs.
Anthropology Australia Tasmania History.
Archaeology Australia Tasmania History.
Tasmania History 20th century.
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Print version: Taylor, Rebe. Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity. Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2017 270 pages 9780522867961 (DLC) 2017392910
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