Rose Jeffrey I., Hilbert Yamandu H., Marks Anthony E., Usik Vitaly I. 2019. The first peoples of Oman. Palaeolithic archaeology of the Nejd plateau

Community music educators worldwide face the challenge of preparing their students for working in increasingly diverse cultural contexts. These diverse contexts require distinctive approaches to community music-making that are respectful of, and responsive to, the customs and traditions of that cultural setting. The challenge for community music educators then becomes finding pedagogical approaches and strategies that both facilitate these sorts of intercultural learning experiences for their students and that engage with communities in culturally appropriate ways. This chapter unpacks these challenges and possibilities, and explores how the pedagogical strategy of community service learning can facilitate these sorts of dynamic intercultural learning opportunities. Specifically, it focuses on engaging with Australian First Peoples, and draws on eight years of community service learning in this field to inform the insights shared.

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Designing an Indigenous Voice that empowers: How constitutional recognition could strengthen First Nations sovereignty

Alternative Law Journal ◽

10.1177/1037969x211009628 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1037969X2110096

Author(s):

Jason O’Neil

Keyword(s):

First Nations ◽

Design Process ◽

Interim Report ◽

Role Of Government ◽

Existing Structures ◽

First Peoples ◽

Indigenous Voice

This article considers how a First Nations Voice to Parliament, if carefully designed, could strengthen the land-based sovereignty and autonomy of First Peoples in Australia. It critiques the proposals presented in the Indigenous Voice Co-design Process' Interim Report released January 2021 for its emphasis on the role of government and existing structures. It responds to Indigenous critiques of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, while arguing for a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament that respects and defers to First Nations' Country-based authority.

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Treaties and re-setting the colonial relationship: Lessons for Australia from the Treaty of Waitangi

Ethnicities ◽

10.1177/1468796821999863 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146879682199986

Author(s):

Dominic O'Sullivan

Keyword(s):

Prime Minister ◽

Mutual Recognition ◽

Indigenous Populations ◽

Truth Telling ◽

Treaty Negotiations ◽

Indigenous Nations ◽

Australian State ◽

Treaty Of Waitangi ◽

First Peoples ◽

Egalitarian Justice

Colonial hegemony distinguishes relationships between the Australian state and Indigenous nations. British government was violently established and there was no accommodation with the Indigenous populations to allow settlement to proceed, as occurred through treaties in Canada and New Zealand. Indigenous arguments for treaties in Australia are, however, well established. Notwithstanding some Commonwealth and state and territory governments considering such agreements over the past 40 years, none have been concluded, and more modest forms of recognition have been alternatively proposed. In 2015, following extensive Indigenous advocacy, the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition appointed a Referendum Council to consult on an amendment to the Commonwealth Constitution to recognise Australia’s first peoples. The recommendation of a Voice to Parliament and a Makarrata Commission to oversee truth telling and agreements to allow ‘coming together after a struggle’ suggested a transformative ambition beyond the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition’s expectations. Makarrata does not stipulate treaties as an ideal form of agreement, but in raising the possibility, the Council added to the concept’s political momentum. This article discusses the place of treaties in contemporary Australian discourse, including treaty negotiations that are in progress in Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory. It uses examples from New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi to discuss their possibilities and limits in Australia. From these examples, two overarching arguments are made. Firstly, that treaties are potentially transformative, not because they may settle historical grievances, but because their required mutual recognition of each party’s enduring political standing means that they define ongoing, just terms of association. Secondly, the substantively different political arrangements that they presume mean that they are not merely instruments of egalitarian justice and are instead concerned with the distribution of political authority – Indigenous authority over their affairs and through a distinctive and culturally contextualised state citizenship.

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Palaeolithic archaeology of the Bytham River: human occupation of Britain during the early Middle Pleistocene and its European context

Journal of Quaternary Science ◽

10.1002/jqs.3305 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rob Davis ◽

Nick Ashton ◽

Marcus Hatch ◽

Peter G. Hoare ◽

Simon G. Lewis

Keyword(s):

Middle Pleistocene ◽

Human Occupation ◽

European Context ◽

Palaeolithic Archaeology

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The Palaeolithic of Klithi in its wider context

The Annual of the British School at Athens ◽

10.1017/s0068245400015033 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 87 ◽

pp. 1-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Geoff Bailey

Keyword(s):

Stone Tool ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

Global Issues ◽

Faunal Assemblages ◽

Late Upper Palaeolithic ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Village ◽

Of Greece ◽

Palaeolithic Archaeology

Klithi is a rockshelter in the lower reaches of the Voidomatis gorge, near the village of Klithonia in Epirus. Excavations in progress since 1983 have revealed evidence of a late Upper Palaeolithic occupation dated between 16,000 BP and 10,000 BP, with rich microlithic stone tool industries and faunal assemblages dominated by chamois and ibex. The excavations have been accompanied by wider investigations of the local and regional palaeoenvironment and reexamination of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites excavated by Eric Higgs in the 1960s, notably Kokkinopilos, Asprochaliko, and Kastritsa. This paper presents some of the detailed results of the Klithi excavations and sets the results within the wider context of the global issues which inform the study of Palaeolithic archaeology, the Palaeolithic of Greece as a whole, and the regional picture of Palaeolithic settlement in Epirus.

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