55 research outputs found
‘Life and death on Dyarubbin: reports from the river’
Based in the findings of the collaborative Real Secret River: Dyarubbin project, this paper explores the intersections of Aboriginal history, geography, mythology and language on Dyarubbin/the Hawkesbury River, N.S.W
The dialogue of townscape: The rocks and Sydney, 1788-1820
This paper explores the origins of Sydney from the perspective of the convict and ex-convict majority by examining the townscape of the early Rocks where they appropriated land and built houses from the earliest years of white settlement. Instead of the orderly outpost of empire presented by governors, artists and map-makers, or the gaol town or 'gulag' portrayed in some historiography, the Sydney the Rocks represented was built and occupied largely according to the tastes, priorities and inclinations of the people, with relatively little official interference. Early Sydney emerged through a constant dialogue between people and government, one that encompassed signs and rituals of deference and obligation, pragmatic negotiations, everyday subversion and, more occasionally, outright defiance
‘Traces in a Lost Landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites – Nepean River and contiguous areas NSW'
An overview and report on the Traces in a Lost Landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites, Dyarubbin/Nepean River Project, which uses geospatial recording and analysis to recover, integrate, and map data from published and unpublished reports on Aboriginal archaeological sites on Dyarubbin/the Nepean River in New South Wales, Australia
First dimension of the correspondence analysis.
<p>First dimension of the correspondence analysis.</p
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