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Title: | A Reinvestigation of the Archaeology of Geosurveys Hill, Northern Simpson Desert | Contributor(s): | Smith, Mike (author); Ross, June (author) | Publication Date: | 2007 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4928 | Abstract: | In October 1962 Norman Tindale was fl own to the Geosurveys Hill area, deep in the Simpson dunefield (Figure 1), to follow up reports of prehistoric occupation exposed on interdunal pans in the area (Anon. 1962). Tindale, then at the South Australian Museum, had been invited to make the trip by Reg Sprigg, Managing Director of Geosurveys of Australia Ltd, one of several companies prospecting the Simpson Desert for oil and gas in the 1960s (Sprigg 1993). Geosurveys staff had noticed that 'long lines of stones on a claypan disappear under sand hills' (Sprigg 1993). Left alone in the desert in the late afternoon, Tindale, then nearly 62, was a hardy, self-reliant field archaeologist: ‘I took stock of my camp,' he wrote in his journal, 'got together some firewood against the night, chose a place to sleep and then made a hasty reconnaissance of the claypan.' Later he 'fed on chops grilled in ashes, made tea and then with a flashlight searched for and found stone implements ... on the claypan' (Tindale 1962:7). Although he had planned for several days of fieldwork, Tindale only had a few hours of daylight in the area as the plane returned the next morning to collect him before impending rain made local clay pans too soft to land on. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Archaeology, v.64, p. 50-52 | Publisher: | Australian Archaeological Association Inc | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 2470-0363 0312-2417 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/taxonomy/terms/144 http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=865793363040891;res=IELHSS |
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