Creating and renewing identity and value through the use of non‐invasive archaeological methods: Mapoon unmarked graves, potential burial mounds and cemeteries project, western Cape York peninsula, Queensland

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
MARY‐JEAN SUTTON ◽  
LAWRENCE B. CONYERS ◽  
SIMON PEARCE ◽  
EMMA ST PIERRE ◽  
DIANE NICHOLLS PITT
Keyword(s):  
Western Cape ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Burial Mounds

scholarly journals Implication of non-invasive archaeological methods in Brigetio in 2016

2017 ◽  
pp. 213-232
Author(s):  
Dávid Bartus ◽  
Zoltán Czajlik ◽  
László Rupnik
Keyword(s):  
Non Invasive ◽  
Archaeological Methods

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scholarly journals Flaked stone assemblage variability across the Weipa region of western Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Justin Shiner ◽  
Simon Holdaway ◽  
Patricia Fanning
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Lithic Reduction ◽  
Shell Mounds ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Core Reduction

Shell mounds located on the coastal and estuarine fringes are the best-known archaeological feature in the Weipa region, northwestern Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Other archaeological deposits have received less attention, with stone artefacts thought to be all but absent reflecting the lack of raw material suitable for flaking in the region. Cultural heritage surveys on the bauxite plateau in the Weipa region undertaken since 2003 have changed this view. Here we report on stone artefacts manufactured from quartz, quartzite, silcrete, and mudstone. Surprisingly, flakes and cores in assemblages from across the surveyed region retain a relatively large proportion of cortex, indicating limited lithic reduction despite the lack of local raw material. Comparisons made with assemblage characteristics from other regions in Australia indicate that this lack of core reduction may reflect use of the Albatross Bay landscape by people who were confident of being able to access the lithic sources outside the region to replenish their tool kits.

scholarly journals Non-Invasive Assessment of Body Condition and Stress-Related Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolite Concentrations in African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) Roaming in Fynbos Vegetation

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 814
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Carlin ◽  
Gabriella Teren ◽  
Andre Ganswindt
Keyword(s):  
Body Condition ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
Loxodonta Africana ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
African Elephants ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Fecal Glucocorticoid

Fynbos is a unique endemic vegetation type belonging to the Cape Floral Kingdom in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, representing the smallest of the six floral kingdoms in the world. Nowadays, only a few game reserves in this region support populations of African elephants (Loxodonta africana), and thus, little information exists regarding the suitability of the nutritionally poor Fynbos vegetation for these megaherbivores. Using already established non-invasive methods, the monitoring of individual body conditions and fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (fGCM) concentrations, as a measure of physiological stress, was performed to examine a herd of 13 elephants in a Western Cape Province Private Game Reserve, during two monitoring periods (April and June 2018), following a severe drought. The results indicate that overall median body condition scores (April and June: 3.0, range 2.0–3.0) and fGCM concentrations (April: 0.46 µg/g dry weight (DW), range 0.35–0.66 µg/g DW; June: 0.61 µg/g DW, range 0.22–1.06 µg/g DW) were comparable to those of other elephant populations previously studied utilizing the same techniques. These findings indicate that the individuals obtain sufficient nutrients from the surrounding Fynbos vegetation during the months monitored. However, a frequent assessment of body conditions and stress-associated fGCM concentrations in these animals would assist conservation management authorities and animal welfare practitioners in determining ways to manage this species in environments with comparably poorer nutritional vegetation.

The Great Parterre at Chatsworth: Refining Non-Invasive Archaeological Methods as Investigation Techniques

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Jan Woudstra ◽  
Colin Merrony ◽  
Michael Klemperer
Keyword(s):  
Non Invasive ◽  
Archaeological Methods

scholarly journals Report on excavation of a shell mound site at Mandjungaar, western Cape York Peninsula

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Morrison ◽  
Chantal Wight ◽  
Emily Evans
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Short Report ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
History Of ◽  
Management Project ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Mound Formation ◽  
Additional Support

This short report presents results of excavation and analysis of a shell mound deposit at Mandjungaar, near Weipa, Cape York Peninsula. This study was initiated as a cultural heritage management project focused on a shell mound site damaged by unauthorised clearing of access tracks. This study included a small research component to establish a baseline understanding of longer-term use history of the Mandjungaar area at the request of Ndrua’angayth custodians. This included excavation and analysis of a test pit at the site. Results of the study are presented and contextualised in relation to previous research on the Weipa Peninsula in order to expand our understanding of the wider cultural history of the southern Weipa Peninsula. These results provide further support for the assertion that shell mound formation in the Albatross Bay region involved food production activities that were strategically focused on estuarine mud and sandflat ecosystems. In doing so, this dataset provides additional support for the previously proposed niche production model of shell mound formation.

scholarly journals A preliminary report on archaeological findings in Aurukun Shire, western Cape York

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 133-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Cribb
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Potential Resource ◽  
Cape York ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Traditional Patterns

The following is a preliminary report on archaeological work undertaken in September and October 1985 in conjunction with an ethnographic mapping project carried out by the South Australian Museum and Arukun Shire Council. The mapping project, which has continued in some form for the past 15 years, was set up by anthropologists Peter Sutton and John von Sturmer along with the traditional owners of clan estates. As this work, and similar work in eastern Cape York, has had as one of its primary aims the elucidation of traditional patterns of land tenure, it represents a major potential resource for archaeology (Chase 1980; Sutton 1978; von Sturmer 1978).

Marine transgression and dune initiation on western Cape York, northern Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 114 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian G. Lees ◽  
Matthew Hayne ◽  
David Price
Keyword(s):  
Western Cape ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Marine Transgression ◽  
Cape York
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