ABSTRACT Applicable to nations around the world with large corpuses of rock art and disenfranchised or disempowered First Nations peoples, efforts are being implemented at locations across Northern Australia to change this power imbalance. As the Traditional Owners of Country and the custodians of an ongoing living culture, interconnected across time and space, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia continue to fight for control of the management and interpretation of their own heritage. With many well-meaning non-Indigenous efforts in the past forty years focused on the preservation and protection of what remains within the fabric of a site in a museum-like context, changes are now occurring in a number of locations whereby Indigenous peoples have regained control of their cultural places and are working collaboratively with archaeologists and conservation specialists to care for these valuable places. Utilising both traditional methods and modern techniques to look after both tangible and intangible values, these efforts are owned, initiated and implemented by Indigenous communities with ongoing support from specialists. Conservation programmes such as these are presented, exemplifying efforts which showcase unforeseen improvements, particularly in response to previous interventions that were imposed, unmanaged and unevaluated. This decolonising process, as defined through recent doctoral research, is forging a revitalised and shared path for all involved to follow.

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澳大利亚非殖民化岩画保护过程的土著管理

摘要 适用于世界各地拥有大量岩画和被剥夺权利或被剥夺权利的原住民的国家，澳大利亚北部各地正在努力改变这种权力失衡。作为国家的传统所有者和持续存在的文化的守护者，跨越时间和空间相互联系，澳大利亚的土著和托雷斯海峡岛民继续为控制自己遗产的管理和解释而斗争。在过去的四十年里，许多善意的非土著努力专注于在博物馆般的环境中保存和保护遗址结构内的遗迹，许多地方现在正在发生变化，土著人民重新控制了他们的文化场所，并与考古学家和保护专家合作保护这些宝贵的地方。利用传统方法和现代技术来照顾有形和无形的价值，这些努力由土著社区拥有、发起和实施，并得到专家的持续支持。介绍了诸如此类的保护计划，举例说明了展示不可预见的改进的努力，特别是针对先前强加的、未管理的和未评估的干预措施。正如最近的博士研究所定义的那样，这种非殖民化进程正在为所有相关人员打造一条振兴和共享的道路。