Indigenous Culture
This note is about the relationship between Indigenous cultures, especially in Australia, and plants.
Brockwell, Sally, Janelle Stevenson, and Anne Clarke. ‘Plants and Archaeology in Australia’. In Wild Harvest: Plants in the Hominin and Pre-Agrarian Human Worlds, edited by Karen Hardy, Lucy Kubiak-Martens, and Lydia Zapata Peña, 273–92. Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2016.
Ouzman, Sven, Peter Veth, Cecilia Myers, Pauline Heaney, and Kevin Kenneally. ‘Plants Before Animals?: Aboriginal Rock Art as Evidence of Ecoscaping in Australia’s Kimberley’. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art, edited by Bruno David and Ian J. McNiven. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
The Use of Plants
Cf. ethnobotany
Nash, Daphne. ‘Aboriginal Plant Use in South-Eastern Australia’. Acton: Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2004.
Cahir, Fred, Ian Clark, and Philip A. Clarke. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-Eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists. Collingwood: CSIRO, 2018.
Clarke, Philip A. Aboriginal People and Their Plants. 2nd ed. 2007. Reprint, Dural: Rosenberg, 2011.
Clarke, Philip A. Australian Plants as Aboriginal Tools. Kenthurst: Rosenberg, 2012.
- Cf. biodiscovery laws in Australia's plants and animals have long been used without Indigenous consent. Now Queensland has taken a stand
- Plants and animals | Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council
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