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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Format: | Book Part |
Language: | English |
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The Australian National University (ANU)
1999
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6368505 |
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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