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- Title
The polemics of eating fish in Tasmania: the historical evidence revisited.
- Authors
Taylor, Rebe
- Abstract
The article assesses the historical evidence related to the Tasmanian Aboriginal history, culture and language, based on the Westlake Papers, which includes works by amateur scientist Ernest Westlake during his journey to Tasmania in 1908-1910 to collect Aboriginal stone artifacts. The author contends that the evidence should be re-analyzed based on historical shifts, in which Tasmanian Aboriginal people are acknowledged as a living community rather than an extinct race. The author explains the continuation of fish eating habit among the Aboriginal people despite non-presence of fish bones in shell middens across Tasmania from about 3,000 BP on.
- Subjects
TASMANIA; ABORIGINAL Tasmanians; INDIGENOUS peoples -- Food; LANGUAGE &; culture; LANGUAGE &; history; WESTLAKE, Ernest; TASMANIAN history
- Publication
Aboriginal History, 2007, Vol 31, p1
- ISSN
0314-8769
- Publication type
Article