Ref ID:	31724
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Mitchell, Scott
Title:	Dugongs and dugouts, sharptacks and shellbacks: Macassan contact and aboriginal marine hunting on the Cobourg Peninsula, north western Arnhem Land
Date:	1996
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Chiang Mai, Thailand 5 to 12 January 1994
Abstract:	This paper is concerned with one of the economic consequences of contact between Macassans and Aborigines in northwestern Arnhem Land. It outlines the manner in which items of foreign material culture such as iron and dugout canoes were incorporated into Aboriginal marine hunting technologies. A model is developed regarding the possible impacts of dugouts and iron on indigenous marine hunting strategies, and this model is tested through comparison of pre-contact and post-contact vertebrate faunal assemblages. Archaeological data suggest that the intensity with which large marine animals were hunted in northwestern Arnhem Land increased markedly after the onset of Macassan contact.
Date Created:	10/19/2003
Volume:	15
Page Start:	181
Page End:	190