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1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Open Access EbpS |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Bruno David, Russell Mullett, Joanna Fresløv and the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation ; PART 1. Background to Fires and Cultural Burning on GunaiKurnai Country ; Chapter 2. Wildfires: Characteristics, Drivers and Impacts on Cultural Sites -- Grant Williamson and Jessie Buettel ; Chapter 3. Accounts and Memories of Landscape Burning Practices in Gippsland -- Seumas Spark ; Chapter 4. Eugene von Guérard on GunaiKurnai Country 1860-1861: Reading the Story of Fire in his Depictions of the Landscape -- Ruth Pullin ; Chapter 5. 20th and 21st Century Wildfires and Prescribed Burning in GunaiKurnai Country -- Jessie Buettel, Bruno David and Stefania Ondei ; PART 2. The Distribution of Cultural Sites in GunaiKurnai Country, and How Fires Affect Cultural Materials ; Chapter 6. Cultural Sites in GunaiKurnai Country -- Jessie Buettel, Russell Mullett, Jessie Birkett-Rees, Bruno David, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Joanna Fresløv, Stefania Ondei, Robert Skelly and Jerome Mialanes ; Chapter 7. The Impacts of Fire on Stone Artefacts -- Jerome Mialanes, Bruno David, Joanna Fresløv and Russell Mullett ; Chapter 8. The Impacts of Fires on Rock Art Sites and Ochre -- Jillian Huntley and Courtney Webster ; Chapter 9. The Impact of Fires on Bone -- Matthew McDowell ; Chapter 10. The Impacts of Fire on Culturally Modified Trees -- Joanna Fresløv, Russell Mullett and Bruno David ; Chapter 11. Shells and Fire-Indicators and Effects -- Katherine Szabó and Annette Oertle ; PART 3. Understanding the Impact of Fires on GunaiKurnai Cultural Heritage Sites: Past, Present and Future ; Chapter 12. Landscape Fires and Cultural Sites in GunaiKurnai Country -- Jessie Buettel, Stefania Ondei, Bruno David, Joanna Fresløv and Russell Mullett ; Chapter 13. Archaeological Surveys in GunaiKurnai Country -- Robert Skelly, Bruno David, Joanna Fresløv and Russell Mullett ; Chapter 14. Understanding the Distribution and Impacts of Wildfires in GunaiKurnai Country through Subregions -- Jessie Buettel, Stefania Ondei, Bruno David, Joanna Fresløv and Russell Mullett ; Chapter 15. Conclusion -- Russell Mullett, Katherine Szabó, Joanna Fresløv, Bruno David, Jessie Buettel, and the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation ; References. |
| Summary |
Anthropogenic climate change has become a reality, and in Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense fires across a wider area. The GunaiKurnai people of southeastern Victoria saw a large proportion of their Country decimated by the Gippsland Fires of 'Black Summer' (2019-2020), prompting questions about the management of Country and its heritage places and artefacts, and of the role that traditional ('cultural') burning could play. This volume, written at the request of the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GKLaWAC), seeks to investigate these twin issues. Bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of Aboriginal Elders, archaeologists, environmental scientists, ecologists, historians and art historians, it considers the histories of GunaiKurnai and European settler burning-based landscape management practices, the impacts of fire on specific classes of cultural materials, and the broader impact of changing wildfire patterns on cultural sites in the landscape. This is a truly collaborative venture that sees GunaiKurnai and academic expertise brought to bear in the service of common and pressing issues. |
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Wildfires -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 21st century.
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Cultural property -- Destruction and pillage -- Australia -- Victoria -- History -- 21st century.
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Feux de friches -- Australie -- Victoria -- Histoire -- 21e siècle.
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Patrimoine culturel -- Destruction et pillage -- Australie -- Victoria -- Histoire -- 21e siècle.
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Science / Global Warming & Climate Change.
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Social Science / Archaeology.
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Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Cultural property -- Destruction and pillage
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Wildfires
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Victoria
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Buettel, Jessie, editor.
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David, Bruno, 1962- editor.
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Mullett, Russell, editor.
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Fresløv, Joanna, editor.
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Szabó, Katherine, editor.
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GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fires in GunaiKurnai country. Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023 9781803274812 (OCoLC)1379492807 |
| ISBN |
9781803274829 (electronic bk.) |
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1803274824 (electronic bk.) |
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9781803274812 |
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1803274816 |
| Standard No. |
UKMGB 021090198 |
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