Stories are important to all modern peoples, and this behaviour was no doubt also the case during the deep past. Consequently, it is important that archaeologists understand that artefacts made and discarded thousands of years ago were woven with stories by the peoples who produced them. In some regions of the world, these stories remain accessible by collaborating with the Traditional Owners of the lands from which they were recovered, while in others such an approach is impossible. Nevertheless, researchers need to remember that items carried meaning usually invisible to those outside communities—a principle often taught and cited, but possibly not fully appreciated. Here we tell the Yuin (coastal New South Wales, Australia) story of Gymea and her connection to fishing technologies. This story is told in order to demonstrate the depth of information that is not accessible to archaeologists if Indigenous collaborators are not sought out or available.

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Gymea 和澳大利亚新南威尔士海岸的捕鱼技术

故事对所有现代人都很重要，这种行为在很远的过去无疑也是如此。因此，重要的是考古学家要了解，数千年前制造和丢弃的人工制品是由生产它们的民族与故事交织在一起的。在世界的某些地区，这些故事仍然可以通过与他们被收回的土地的传统所有者合作来获得，而在其他地区，这种方法是不可能的。然而，研究人员需要记住，项目的意义通常对外部社区来说是不可见的——这一原则经常被教导和引用，但可能没有被充分理解。在这里，我们讲述了 Gymea 的 Yuin（澳大利亚新南威尔士州沿海地区）的故事以及她与捕鱼技术的联系。