What is it about?
This analysis of Australian Aboriginal rock art in the contact period demonstrates how Aboriginal people from different countries worked together to pressure important cultural knowledge when faced with the pressure of European colonisation. Available at: https://flinders.academia.edu/ClaireSmith
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Why is it important?
The data speak to a fundamental question in archaeology: relationships between population movements and the transmission of ideas. The critical point for archaeologists is that population displacement was characterized by cooperation between Aboriginal peoples, rather than conflict, in the face of a powerful external force.
Perspectives
This is an important site, first described in separate publications by MacIntosh and Elkin in 1951. Others will publish on this site in decades to come. Our paper is part of the flow of knowledge, building on past research and providing a stronger foundation for future analyses.
Claire Smith
Flinders University
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This page is a summary of: Beswick Creek Cave six decades later: change and continuity in the rock art of Doria Gudaluk, Antiquity, November 2016, Antiquity Publications,
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.206.
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