History and the Landscape in Central Australia: A Study of the Material Evidence of European Culture and Settlement

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Australian University, North Australia Research Unit, 1991 - History - 81 pages
Aspects of the historical geography of Central Australia; brief historical context and description of Aboriginal regional occupation - Aboriginal sites of significance mentioned; contact history sites - description, physical layout and history of Hermannsburg and Phillip Creek (Manga Manga); chapters on pastoral homesteads, wells on north-south stock route, mining at Arltunga and Tennant Creek, urbanisation of Alice Springs; cultural resource managment in Central Australia.

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Chapter One A Setting and its story
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Chapter Two Before the Europeans
11
Chapter Four Aborigines and Europeans at Hermannsburg
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