Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity

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The work Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity

Title remainder

a search for human antiquity

Statement of responsibility

Rebe Taylor

Creator

• Taylor, Rebe

Author

• Taylor, Rebe

Subject

• Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Implements | History
• Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Land tenure
• Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Languages
• Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social life and customs
• Anthropology -- Tasmania -- History
• Archaeology
• Archaeology -- Tasmania
• Australian
• Beeton, Henry
• Cultural heritage - Protection - Museums and keeping places - Collections and acquisitions
• Ethnologists -- England -- Biography
• Indigenous Heritage -- Adult Non fiction -- Print
• Jones, Rhys, 1941-2001
• Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Antiquities | Collection and preservation
• Palaeontology
• Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
• Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
• Settlement and contacts - Settlers
• Smith, Fanny Cochrane, 1834-1905
• Smith, Fanny Cochrane, 1834?-1905
• Technology - Stone
• Thomas, Philip, b. 1836
• Truganini, approximately 1812-1876
• Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922
• Meenamatta, Pura-lia, 1942-
• Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History

Genre

• Indigenous Heritage
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

“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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

994.6

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography