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By Val Attenbrow
The higher Mangrove Creek catchment was once an amazing locality during which to adopt box research into Aboriginal use of the coastal hinterland. the world, one zero one sq. kilometres in measurement, is wealthy in websites that supplied major archaeological proof of Aboriginal use of the coastal hinterland. The catchment turned the focal point of significant archaeological salvage paintings within the overdue Nineteen Seventies, ahead of the development of the Mangrove Creek Dam. extra study, undertaken through Val Attenbrow, at the overall catchment improved upon the result of past paintings. This monograph describes the later examine undertaking and summarises the salvage application effects. This facts is utilized by the writer to discover present learn concerns when it comes to the translation of the mid- to late-Holocene archaeological list in Australia, quite quantitative adjustments with regards to inhabitants numbers and facets of human behaviour, akin to danger administration, subsistence, mobility and land-use styles.
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The central NSW coastal hinterland, except for areas such as the Cumberland Plain and Hunter Valley lowlands (respectively, to the south and north of the Upper Mangrove Creek catchment), is predominantly forested hills, ranges and dissected sandstone plateaux, which is often very rugged country. The Upper Mangrove Creek catchment lies within the coastal hinterland (Fig. 1). , Megaw 1968a, 1968b, 1974; Lampert 1966, 1971a, 1971b; Bowdler 1970, 1971, 1976). The coastal bias in this excavation work in conjunction with the interpretation of local historical sources led researchers to the viewpoint that the hinterland (usually referred to as ‘inland’) was used to a much lesser extent than the ocean and estuarine shoreline zones (Lawrence 1968, 1971; Poiner 1971, 1976; Lampert and Hughes 1974).
1987). The increases in the artefact accumulation rates were seen to reflect changes in: 1. the number of people using the site, that is, variation in group size; and/or, 2. frequency of visits to the site; and/or, 3. , Smith 1982: 114; Ross 1985: 83). The net effect of any one of these circumstances is that more person-days were spent at an individual site. Smith (1982: 114) referred to this as Simple Functional Change. , Jones 1985: 296; Lampert and Hughes 1974 for the period before ca 5000 BP).
Other behavioural explanations may account for these dramatic changes in sites and artefacts and the ways in terra australis 21 1 What’s changing: population size or land-use patterns? The archaeology of Upper Mangrove Creek, Sydney Basin which they can be interpreted and explained depend on the assumptions that are made. For example, they could be the result of the reorganisation of habitation patterns and subsistence strategies, which included the adoption of different mobility patterns and other risk minimization strategies in the face of environmental change.