Gymea and the Fishing Technologies of the New South Wales Coast, Australia
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Freeman, J
Langley, MC
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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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Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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31
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2
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Freeman, C; Freeman, J; Langley, MC, Gymea and the Fishing Technologies of the New South Wales Coast, Australia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2021, 31 (2), pp. 305–312