So ends this day: American whalers in Yaburara country, Dampier Archipelago

Alistair Paterson; Anderson Ross; Ken Mulvaney; Sarah de Koning; Joseph Dortch; Jo McDonald

doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.186

So ends this day: American whalers in Yaburara country, Dampier Archipelago

Alistair Paterson, Anderson Ross, Ken Mulvaney, Sarah de Koning, Joseph Dortch, Jo McDonald

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Abstract

Research to document Aboriginal occupation across the Dampier Archipelago has also encountered the earliest archaeological evidence for the presence of American whalers in North West Australia. Inscriptions in the form of rock engravings made by the crews of the whaling ships Connecticut (1842) and Delta (1849) have been discovered on Rosemary and West Lewis Islands. These maritime inscriptions are uniquely superimposed over earlier Indigenous rock art motifs, appearing to represent distinct mark-making practices by the whalers on encountering an already-inscribed landscape, and thus providing insight into the earliest phases of North West Australia's colonial history. © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2019.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	218-235
Number of pages	18
Journal	Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology
Volume	93
Issue number	367
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.186
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2019

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Coastal Connections: dynamic societies of Australia's Northwest frontier
Paterson, A. (Investigator 01)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/15 → 21/12/23
Project: Research
Murujuga - Dynamics of the Dreaming
McDonald, J. (Investigator 01), Veth, P. (Investigator 02), Paterson, A. (Investigator 03), Hampson, J. (Investigator 04), Glaskin, K. (Investigator 05), Whitley, T. (Investigator 06), Bourke, P. (Investigator 07) & Mulvaney, K. (Investigator 08)
ARC Australian Research Council , Rio Tinto
1/01/14 → 31/12/18
Project: Research

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