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  • Flaked Glass Artifacts from Nineteenth–Century Native Mounted Police Camps in Queensland, Australia

    Author(s)
    Perston, Yinika
    Wallis, Lynley A
    Burke, Heather
    McLennan, Colin
    Hatte, Elizabeth
    Barker, Bryce
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Perston, Yinika
    Wallis, Lynley A.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    The invasion of the Australian continent by Europeans caused massive disruptions to Indigenous cultures and ways of life. The adoption of new raw materials, often for the production of “traditional” artifact forms, is one archaeological indicator of the changes wrought by “colonization.” Two camp sites associated with the Queensland Native Mounted Police (NMP), a punitive paramilitary government force that operated through the latter half of the nineteenth century in the northeastern part of the continent, contain abundant flaked glass artifacts. These were undoubtedly manufactured by the Aboriginal men who were employed as ...
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    The invasion of the Australian continent by Europeans caused massive disruptions to Indigenous cultures and ways of life. The adoption of new raw materials, often for the production of “traditional” artifact forms, is one archaeological indicator of the changes wrought by “colonization.” Two camp sites associated with the Queensland Native Mounted Police (NMP), a punitive paramilitary government force that operated through the latter half of the nineteenth century in the northeastern part of the continent, contain abundant flaked glass artifacts. These were undoubtedly manufactured by the Aboriginal men who were employed as troopers in the NMP, and/or their wives and children. Produced using traditional stone working techniques applied to a novel raw material, these artifacts are a tangible demonstration of the messy entanglements experienced by people living and working in this particular — and in some ways unique — cross-cultural context. For the Aboriginal troopers stationed in alien landscapes, the easy accessibility of glass afforded a means by which they could maintain cultural practices and exert independence from their employers, unencumbered by traditional normative behaviors.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Historical Archaeology
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00624-5
    Funder(s)
    ARC
    Grant identifier(s)
    DP160100307
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    This publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
    Subject
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology
    Historical archaeology (incl. industrial archaeology)
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/406693
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    • Gold Coast
    • Logan
    • Brisbane - Queensland, Australia
    First Peoples of Australia
    • Aboriginal
    • Torres Strait Islander