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.


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