ABSTRACT The “Frontier Wars” in Australia were a series of conflicts carried out at different times and places by various military and civilian actors between 1788 and c1938. One of the principal agents in this violence in the colony of Queensland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the paramilitary Native Mounted Police (NMP), who were tasked with protecting settlers from Aboriginal resistance. This paper examines written and oral accounts of frontier conflict between settlers, Aboriginal people and the NMP in northwest Queensland and places them into the context of the archaeological evidence from an NMP camp site. It thus emphasizes the different types of stories that arise from different sources of historical knowledge and how oral histories transformed into print interact with oral histories of subaltern peoples. Investigation of the archaeology of related sites suggests that they refer to events at a quite different scale.

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文字和物质上的文化冲突：文字和铅对昆士兰西北部殖民地边境的影响

摘要澳大利亚的“边境战争”是1788年至1938年间，各种军事和平民行为者在不同时间和地点发生的一系列冲突。19世纪末20世纪初在昆士兰殖民地发生的这场暴力事件的主要推动者之一是准军事原住民骑警（NMP），其任务是保护定居者免受原住民抵抗。本文研究了昆士兰西北部定居者，原住民和NMP之间边境冲突的书面和口头说明，并将其置于NMP营地遗址的考古证据的背景下。因此，它强调了源于不同历史知识来源的不同类型的故事，以及口述历史如何转变为印刷品与子民族的口述历史之间的相互作用。