Author: Carment, David.
Title: History and the Landscape in Central Australia: A Study of the Material Evidence of European Culture and Settlement.
Description: Darwin Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit, 1991. 1st ed. Paperback large thin octavo, very good condition, figures, black & white & colour plates, edges lightly toned, minor edgewear. 81 pp. David Carment provides a multi-disciplinary approach that explains how historic evidence can be found in sites, artefacts and structures throughout Central Australia - thus providing as much information about the past as written and oral sources. Topics covered include relations between Europeans and the Aborigines, the role of communications, the place of pastoralists and mining in economic and social development, and the characteristics of the one major urban centre. Provides links between the process of European settlement in Central Australia and the region's contemporary cultural landscape, and how in recent years very different ideas have emerged about the preservation and interpretation of that landscape. Specifically: Aspects of the historical geography of Central Australia - brief historical context and description of Aboriginal regional occupation - Aboriginal sites of significance mentioned - contact history sites - description, physical layout and history of Hermannsburg and Phillip Creek (Manga Manga) - pastoral homesteads - wells on north-south stock route - mining at Arltunga and Tennant Creek - urbanisation of Alice Springs - cultural resource management in Central Australia. ISBN: 0731512952

Keywords: australian history, geography, landscapes, settlements, urbanisation, australian society, culture, aborigines, indigenous, central australia, alice springs, hermannsburg 0731512952


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