Title Australian plants as Aboriginal tools / Philip A. Clarke

Published [Kenthurst, N.S.W.] : Rosenberg Publishing, 2012 [Kenthurst, N.S.W.] : Rosenberg Publishing, 2012

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W'PONDS	333.9530899915 Cla/Apa		AVAILABLE

Description 374 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm regular print Contents Ch. 1. Plants into artefacts -- ch. 2. The Australian Aboriginal Toolkit -- ch. 3. Ephemeral Subsistence tools -- ch. 4. Camp life ephemera -- ch. 5. Working with green timber -- ch. 6. Sticking things together -- ch. 7. Universal wrappers of bark and broad-leaves -- ch. 8. From fibre to object -- ch. 9. Plants to decorate -- ch. 10. Aboriginal artefacts in transition -- ch. 11. The 'new' material culture -- ch. 12. Plants, artefacts and cultural identity Summary Summary: Australian plants have provided the Aborigines with weapons, tools, shelter, watercraft, ceremonial objects, clothing, ornaments and paint. This book shows how the hunter gatherers lived and similarities and differences of plants uses across Australia Analysis ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS Australian TOOLS WILD PLANTS Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-338) and index Has Indexes P Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Ethnobotany. Aboriginal Australians -- Food. Aboriginal Australians -- Material culture. Aboriginal Australians -- Medicine. Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. Human-plant relationships -- Australia. Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia -- History. Plants, Useful -- Australia. Plants. Ethnobotany. SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 LC no. 2013433294 ISBN 9781921719493 (hardback)

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