Into the heart of Tasmania a search for human antiquity

Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity / Rebe Taylor.

Author/creator	Taylor, Rebe
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Carlton, Victoria Melbourne University Publishing Limited 2017.
Description	270 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white facsimiles, black and white portraits, ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Westlake, Ernest, 1855-1922. Aboriginal Tasmanians--Antiquities --Collection and preservation. Aboriginal Tasmanians--Implements --History. Aboriginal Tasmanians--Land tenure. Aboriginal Tasmanians--Languages --Sources. Ethnologists--England --Biography. Aboriginal Tasmanians--History. Aboriginal Tasmanians--Social life and customs. Anthropology--Australia --Tasmania --History. Archaeology--Australia --Tasmania --History. Tasmania--History --20th century.

Abstract	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. --Back cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-254) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017392910
ISBN	9780522867961 (paperback)

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