The Moth Hunters: Aboriginal Prehistory of the Australian AlpsPrehistory of the south-eastern tablelands and highlands of Australia; ethnohistorical and archaeological data used to reconstruct traditional highlands Aboriginal culture, subsistence and technology, settlement and demographic patterns; includes details of sites and excavations; data on Ngunawal, Ngarigo, Walgalu, Wiradjuri and neighbouring tribes. |
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Aboriginal aestivation alpine artifacts Aust Australian backed blades bark Barrallier Bathurst bipolar scaled pieces Bluett Bogong moths Bogong Mountains bondi points camps Canberra Canberra region chert Cloggs Cave coast coastal cores dry sclerophyll edge eloueras ethnohistorical evidence excavated fish food resources geometric microliths Gippsland granite ground-edge axes Gudgenby Hanging Rock highlands Howitt inland Jindabyne kangaroo Kosciusko Lake George large numbers lower Snowy River mammals manuports microliths Monaro montane moth hunting Murrumbidgee River Nardoo natives Ngarigo Ngunawal occupation Omeo open campsites pebble tools Pialligo plains Plate Pleistocene possums quartz quartz flakes Queanbeyan ranges Rendezvous Creek retouched riverine rock-shelters Sassafras sclerophyll scrapers seasonal silcrete slopes Snowy Mountains Snowy River South Wales Southern Tablelands Southern Uplands spears square stone arrangement stone assemblages sub-alpine suggests summer Sydney territory Tidbinbilla trees tribal tribe Tumut Valley upper utilised vegetable foods Victoria western New South wet sclerophyll forest winter Yass