Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity

AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL

  “In 1908 English gentleman Ernest Westlake packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities and unwittingly documented what he could not perceive: an Aboriginal people with a complex culture and a deep past.”

270 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm First Edition 010723 (Only a “Good” copy, as cover corners somewhat dog-eared, etc.)

Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922.  |  Aboriginal Tasmanians — History.  |  Aboriginal Tasmanians — Social life and customs.  |  Anthropology — Tasmania — History.  |  Archaeology — Tasmania — History.  |  Aboriginal Tasmanians — Antiquities — Collection and preservation.  |  Aboriginal Tasmanians — Implements — History.  |  Aboriginal Tasmanians — Land tenure.  |  Aboriginal Tasmanians — Languages — Sources.  |  Ethnologists — England — Biography.  |  Settlement and contacts – Settlers.  |  Cultural heritage – Protection – Museums and keeping places – Collections and acquisitions.  |  Settlement and contacts – Penal colonies / Convicts.  |  Settlement and contacts – Explorers – European.  |  Technology – Stone.  |  Palaeontology.  |  Archaeology.  |  Tasmania — History — 20th century.  |  Flinders Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)  |  Tasmania (Tas)  |  Oyster Cove (SE Tas SK55-08)  |  Truwana / Cape Barren Island (Tas Bass Strait SK55-02)  |  Australian