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Author Taylor, Rebe, author

Title Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity / Rebe Taylor
Published [Place of publication not identified] : MELBOURNE UNIV Press, 2017
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing Limited, 2017
©2017

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Description 270 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary “In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past.”--Back cover
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-254) and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Beeton, Henry
Jones, Rhys, 1941-2001
Meenamatta, Pura-lia, 1942-
Smith, Fanny, 1834-1905
Thomas, Philip, 1836-
Truganini, approximately 1812-1876.
Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Implements -- History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Land tenure.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Languages -- Sources.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Tasmanians -- Languages.
Anthropology -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History.
Archaeology -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History.
Archaeology -- Australia -- Tasmania.
Ethnologists -- England -- Biography.
SUBJECT Tasmania -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004484
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2017392910
ISBN 9780522867961
Other Titles Into the heart of Tasmania