Flaked Glass Artifacts from Nineteenth-Century Native Mounted Police Camps in Queensland, Australia
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Article Title | Flaked Glass Artifacts from Nineteenth-Century Native Mounted Police Camps in Queensland, Australia |
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ERA Journal ID | 8074 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Perston, Yinika (Author), Wallis, Lynley A. (Author), Burke, Heather (Author), McLennan, Colin (Author), Hatte, Elizabeth (Author) and Barker, Bryce (Author) |
Journal Title | International Journal of Historical Archaeology |
Journal Citation | 26 (3), p. 789–822 |
Number of Pages | 34 |
Year | 2022 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 1092-7697 |
1573-7748 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00624-5 |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-021-00624-5 |
Abstract | The invasion of the Australian continent by Europeans caused massive disruptions to Indigenous cultures and ways of life. The adoption of new raw materials, often for the production of “traditional” artifact forms, is one archaeological indicator of the changes wrought by “colonization.” Two camp sites associated with the Queensland Native Mounted Police (NMP), a punitive paramilitary government force that operated through the latter half of the nineteenth century in the northeastern part of the continent, contain abundant flaked glass artifacts. These were undoubtedly manufactured by the Aboriginal men who were employed as troopers in the NMP, and/or their wives and children. Produced using traditional stone working techniques applied to a novel raw material, these artifacts are a tangible demonstration of the messy entanglements experienced by people living and working in this particular — and in some ways unique — cross-cultural context. For the Aboriginal troopers stationed in alien landscapes, the easy accessibility of glass afforded a means by which they could maintain cultural practices and exert independence from their employers, unencumbered by traditional normative behaviors. |
Keywords | Australia; Indigenous peoples; Knapped glass; Native Mounted Police |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430107. Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology) |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Flinders University | |
Jangga Operations, Australia | |
Northern Archaeology Consultancies, Australia | |
School of Arts and Communication | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Funding source | Australian Research Council (ARC) Grant ID DP160100307 |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6w15/flaked-glass-artifacts-from-nineteenth-century-native-mounted-police-camps-in-queensland-australia
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