Westaway, Michael C

Williams, Douglas

Lowe, Kelsey

Wright, Nathan John

Kerkhove, Ray

Silcock, Jennifer

Gorringe, Joshua

Miszkiewicz, Justyna

Wood, Rachel

Adams, Richard

Manne, Tiina

Adams, Shaun

Miscamble, Tony

Stout, Justin

Wrobel, Gabriel D

Kemp, Justin

Hendry, Brooke

Gorringe, Max

Gorringe, Betty

Lander, Keiron

Gorringe, Shawnee

Andrews, Ian

Collard, Mark

2021-08

Ethnohistoric accounts indicate that the people of Australia's Channel Country engaged in activities rarely recorded elsewhere on the continent, including food storage, aquaculture and possible cultivation, yet there has been little archaeological fieldwork to verify these accounts. Here, the authors report on a collaborative research project initiated by the Mithaka people addressing this lack of archaeological investigation. The results show that Mithaka Country has a substantial and diverse archaeological record, including numerous large stone quarries, multiple ritual structures and substantial dwellings. Our archaeological research revealed unknown aspects, such as the scale of Mithaka quarrying, which could stimulate re-evaluation of Aboriginal socio-economic systems in parts of ancient Australia.

Antiquity, 95(382), p. 1043-1060

1745-1744

0003-598X

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/34784

en

Cambridge University Press

Attribution 4.0 International

Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland

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