Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity / Rebe Taylor. [electronic resource]
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TextPublisher: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - 9780522867978 (e-book)
- Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Implements -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Land tenure
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Languages -- Sources
- Ethnologists -- England -- Biography
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social life and customs
- Anthropology -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History
- Archaeology -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History
- Tasmania -- History -- 20th century
- 994.6 23
- DU470 .T395 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-254) and index.
In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past. --Back cover.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.