Archaeological assessment of Aboriginal estuarine fishing on the Southern Ocean coast of Western Australia

Estuarine shoreline fishing was a fundamentally important subsistence activity in the traditional hunting­gathering economy of the Nyungar-speaking Aborigines of the southwest of Western Australia. This is shown by a number of ethnohistoric accounts mainly dating to the first decade of European sett...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dortch, Charles E.
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 1999
Subjects:
Sahul
Archaeology
Radiocarbon
SahulArch
OCTOPUS database
Southern Ocean
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6368505
https://zenodo.org/record/6368505
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Summary:Estuarine shoreline fishing was a fundamentally important subsistence activity in the traditional hunting­gathering economy of the Nyungar-speaking Aborigines of the southwest of Western Australia. This is shown by a number of ethnohistoric accounts mainly dating to the first decade of European settlement in this region, beginning in 1826. ...

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