The impacts of fires on rock art sites and ochre
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Buettel, Jessie
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prints of objects), or the subtraction of bedrock (engravings, including scratched images) (see also Chapter 6; e.g., Dibden 2019; O’Connor et al. 2013 in relation to scratched rock art). Only three rock art sites have been documented from GunaiKurnai Country, probably reflecting biases in the location of the surveys undertaken during cultural heritage management (see Chapter 12). The three previously recorded GunaiKurnai rock art sites are situated in the southern foothills of the High Country, in association with outcropping bedrock (Table 6.1; Figures 6.2, 6.3). Wildfires, particularly in the 1930s and 2000s as illustrated in Figure 5.3, were geographically concentrated in the foothills and High Country, in areas of remnant forest preserved in National Parks and other ‘public land’ associated with the ancient bedrocks of the Great Dividing Range and Australian Alps (Agriculture Victoria 2022).
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Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia
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Huntley, J; Webster, C, The impacts of fires on rock art sites and ochre, Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia, 2023, pp. 98-108