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Island survival: The anthracological and archaeofaunal evidence for colonial-era events on Barrow Island, north-west Australia
Archaeology in Oceania ( IF 1.276 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-01 , DOI: 10.1002/arco.5202
CHAE BYRNE 1 , TOM DOOLEY 2 , TIINA MANNE 2 , ALISTAIR PATERSON 1 , EMILIE DOTTE‐SAROUT 1
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The establishment of north-west Australia's nineteenth-century pearlshell fisheries led to the first occupation of many arid offshore islands since the early mid-Holocene. The nature of this occupation, and how crews subsisted on such remote landscapes, remains poorly understood. We investigate a rare instance of an archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological record for this colonial-era activity at Bandicoot Bay, Barrow Island. Varied taxonomic representation suggests an atypical subsistence strategy for a maritime industry, involving broad exploitation of resources over several local landscapes and an absence of remains of provisioned food. Identified plant taxa largely conform to resources known ethnographically to have been exploited by north-west Aboriginal communities, and many relate to traditional food practices. The spatial patterning of charred wood and bone suggests multiple burning activities and areas of specific use. Conditions of wood fuel on the island may have prompted the augmentation of fuel, indicated by the presence of non-local wood charcoal and high proportions of calcined bone. These findings (i) are consistent with the hypothesis that the site's occupants originated from the north-west as part of coerced pearling labour and (ii) provide unique insight into the role offshore islands may have occupied in the management of this industry's labour forces.

中文翻译:

岛屿生存:澳大利亚西北部巴罗岛殖民时代事件的人类学和古动物证据

澳大利亚西北部 19 世纪珍珠贝渔业的建立导致许多干旱的近海岛屿自全新世早期以来首次被占领。这种职业的性质,以及船员如何在如此偏远的土地上生存,仍然知之甚少。我们在巴罗岛班迪库特湾调查了这一殖民时代活动的考古植物学和动物考古学记录的罕见实例。不同的分类表示表明了海运业的非典型生存策略,涉及对几个当地景观的资源的广泛开发,并且没有供应的食物残骸。已识别的植物类群在很大程度上符合人种学上已知已被西北土著社区开发的资源,其中许多与传统的饮食习惯有关。烧焦的木头和骨头的空间格局表明了多种燃烧活动和特定用途的区域。岛上木材燃料的状况可能促使燃料增加,这表现为非本地木炭的存在和高比例的煅烧骨。这些发现 (i) 与该地点的居住者来自西北部作为被迫采珠劳动的一部分的假设一致,并且 (ii) 提供了对近海岛屿在该行业劳动力管理中可能扮演的角色的独特见解。
更新日期:2020-04-01
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