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1. The Swan River Colony's First British Settlement: Early Results of Surveys of Garden Island (Meeandip), Western Australia.

Author

Hamersley, Trent and Burke, Shane

Subjects
*FOOD supply, *GARDENS, *ISLANDS, *FOOD storage, *FISHING villages, *LIMESTONE, *INDIGENOUS children, *DATING violence
Abstract

This paper describes the on-going research at Cliff Head, Garden Island (Indigenous name Meeandip) in Western Australia, the first British settlement on the west coast of Australia dating to 1829. The research has recorded features of local limestone and introduced materials such as low-fired brick, a well, and other artifacts brought from Britain. Early results suggest that areas at the camp existed for domestic purposes, storage of equipment and food supplies, the running of stock, and intra and inter-island communication, but other hypotheses are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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3. Nuevos datos sobre el paisaje vegetal de las primeras ocupaciones de Mallorca: el Coval Simó (Escorca, Mallorca)

Author

Carrión Marco, Yolanda, Pérez-Jordà, Guillem, Coll Conesa, Jaume, and Ramis, Damià

Subjects
Campaniforme, Macrorrestos vegetales, paisaje de montaña, Majorca Island, Prehistoria Reciente, prehistoria reciente, Paisaje de montaña, Bell Beaker, Isla de Mallorca, isla de mallorca, primer poblamiento estable, Late Prehistory, campaniforme, First settlement, Farming system, lcsh:Archaeology, sistema agropecuario, Plant macroremains, lcsh:CC1-960, Primer poblamiento estable, macrorrestos vegetales, Mountain landscape, Sistema agropecuario
Abstract

The Coval Simó shelter provides some of the oldest evidence for settlement on the island of Mallorca and the Balearic archipelago. It also has the peculiarity of being a habitat in a mountain area, so that the human groups that settled there had to adapt their agricultural and farming sys­tem to this environment. The plant remains (wood charcoal and seeds) recovered in the occupation levels allow us to address these issues, since they are the result of the different activities developed in this cavity: fuel for domestic activities, food for livestock, etc. The results of this study show that between the III and II millennium cal BC, an agricultural system based on livestock and cereal farming was implement­ed, which exploited local forest formations to obtain resources, among them, firewood. The plants that were exploit­ed show the existence of juniper forests, with the presence of maples and legumes, among other shrubs and bushes. El Coval Simó constituye una de las evidencias más antiguas de poblamiento en la isla de Mallorca y en el ar­chipiélago balear. Tiene, además, la particularidad de ser un hábitat en zona de montaña, de modo que los grupos huma­nos que se asentaron allí debieron de adaptar su sistema agropecuario y de explotación del entorno a este medio. Los restos vegetales (carbones y semillas) recuperados en los niveles de ocupación del yacimiento permiten aproximarse a estas cuestiones, ya que son resultado de las distintas ac­tividades desarrolladas en esta cavidad: combustible para las actividades domésticas, alimento para el ganado, etc. Los resultados de este estudio muestran que entre el III y II milenio cal BC se implantó un sistema agropecuario basado en la ganadería y en el cultivo de cereales, que realizaba una explotación de las formaciones forestales locales para la ob­tención de recursos, entre ellos, el combustible leñoso. Las formaciones vegetales explotadas remiten a la existencia de bosques de enebros o sabinas, con presencia de arces y ma­torrales de leguminosas, entre otros arbustos y matas.

Published
2020
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5. Land of camps: the ephemeral settlement of Australia

Author

Garner, William Vivian Nigel and Garner, William Vivian Nigel

Abstract

This thesis enlarges the history of Australian settlement. I submit that when tents are foregrounded in the historical landscape we are obliged to re-imagine the material and social circumstances as well as the cultural evolution that accompanied the highly uncertain process of colonisation. Combining both chronological and thematic approaches, a number of key historical events are analysed and structured into a narrative of camping. I show that the absence of tents from existing histories (except as ‘colour’) is a consequence of historians’ favouring received ideas of civilisation, progress, and permanence. The corollary to this has been a de-emphasis of the dependence of settlers on temporary habitation. A re-balancing of the narrative requires a concept of ‘ephemeral settlement’ to define the recurring periods between arrival and permanent occupation. The camp emerges as a site of contact, possibility, and new beginnings. From the first English camp at Sydney Cove there began throughout the colonies a cycle of periods of dependence on tents and other temporary structures. Living outdoors exposed settlers to their new natural environment and reshaped domestic and social experience. Pastoralists took up a nomadic existence living under tarpaulins or in versions of Aboriginal bark shelters (gunyahs). The widespread use of gunyahs suggests a largely unrecognised cross-cultural sharing of knowledge arising from unavoidable common circumstances. Camping out became an accepted part of colonial travel and quickly became recognised as a quintessential ‘Australian’ experience. On journeys of exploration the camp was the point of orientation and camping itineraries preceded maps as guides to the overlanders who pushed out the frontiers. The gold rushes introduced a long period of unsettlement in which a large proportion of the population was camped out, and it was this social condition that underwrote the political character of the goldfields. In the second half of the nine

Published
2010

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