Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity
Taylor, Rebe2017
Book
“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.
Main title:
Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity / Rebe Taylor.
Author:
Taylor, Rebe, author
Imprint:
Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Publishing Limited 2017.©2017
Collation:
270 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white facsimiles, black and white portraits, ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [340]-254) and index.
Access restrictions:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this publication contains names and images of deceased persons.
ISBN:
9780522867961
Dewey class:
994.6
Language:
English
Subject:
Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservationAboriginal Tasmanians -- Implements -- HistoryAboriginal Tasmanians -- Land tenureAboriginal Tasmanians -- Languages -- SourcesEthnologists -- England -- BiographyAboriginal Tasmanians -- HistoryAboriginal Tasmanians -- Social life and customsTasmania -- History -- 20th century
BRN:
321681