Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records

Author(s): Val Attenbrow

Australian

This edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research, as well as oral evidence of present-day Aboriginal people, to reveal the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region before, during and for the first 30 years of British settlement. Val Attenbrow describes the different Aboriginal groups and how they lived; the resources available; the foods they ate and their means of obtaining them; their tools, weapons and equipment, and how they were made; where they camped; their shelters, clothing and personal adornment; their beliefs, ceremonial life and rituals; as well as their designs and images.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781742231167
  • : NewSouth Publishing
  • : NewSouth Publishing
  • : 1.021
  • : 31 March 2010
  • : 297mm X 210mm
  • : Australia
  • : 01 April 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Val Attenbrow
  • : Paperback
  • : 2nd edition
  • : 306.0899915
  • : 264
  • : Illustrations, maps