In the 1970s, the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 uniquely placed Aboriginal perspectives at the heart of assessing significance and protecting Aboriginal places, alongside ‘historical, anthropological, archaeological and ethnographical’ interests. In practice, however, archaeological and anthropological assessments have been routinely separated. A narrow ‘scientific’ paradigm has provided the overarching model for archaeological survey and site recording. Arguably, this has led to an impoverished discourse that depersonalises the archaeological record and tends to undervalue Aboriginal archaeological sites. In this paper, we explore alternative ways of talking and writing about archaeological evidence through interweaving Aboriginal and archaeological perspectives to write archaeology in Nyiyaparli country focused on understanding and experiencing place.

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追踪路径：在尼亚帕里国家撰写考古学

在 1970 年代，《1972 年西澳土著遗产法》独特地将土著观点置于评估重要性和保护土著地方的核心位置，以及“历史、人类学、考古学和民族志”利益。然而，在实践中，考古学和人类学评估通常是分开的。狭隘的“科学”范式为考古调查和遗址记录提供了总体模型。可以说，这导致了一种贫乏的话语，使考古记录去个性化，并倾向于低估原住民考古遗址的价值。在本文中，