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One of the most significant and earliest surviving Australian Aboriginal shield artefacts is widely believed The Gweagal Shield 1770 to have been collected by Captain Cook in 1770 during his first expedition (1768–71) to Australia.
Ancient port cities such as Alexandria, Rome and Athens served as important centers for the trade in art and other goods. Middle Ages (ca. 500 AD – 1500 AD): During the Middle Ages, the trade in antiquities became less important as European society was characterized by political instability, cultural change and economic difficulties. Many ...
Australian archaeology is a large sub-field in the discipline of archaeology.Archaeology in Australia takes four main forms: Aboriginal archaeology (the archaeology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before and after European settlement), historical archaeology (the archaeology of Australia after European settlement), maritime archaeology and the archaeology of the ...
Colonialism and the field of archaeology mutually supported one another as the need to acquire knowledge of ancient artifacts justified further colonial dominance. As further justification for colonial rule, the archaeological discoveries also shaped the way European colonialists identified with the artifacts and the ancient people who made them.
A 19th-century engraving of an Aboriginal Australian encampment, showing the indigenous lifestyle in the cooler parts of Australia at the time of European settlement The first contact between British explorers and Indigenous Australians came in 1770, when Lieutenant James Cook interacted with the Guugu Yimithirr people around contemporary ...
Australian Indigenous art has been much studied in recent years and has gained much international recognition. [78] The Rebecca Hossack gallery in London has been credited with "almost single-handedly" introducing Australian Indigenous art to Britain and Europe since its opening in 1988. [79]
Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty ImagesDuring Prohibition, enforcing the nation’s liquor ban was a game of cat and mouse. Smugglers, speakeasies, and ...
The origins of historical archaeology in Australia are generally believed to lie in archaeological investigations by the late William (Bill) Culican at Fossil Beach in Victoria, [5] research at Port Essington, Northern Territory by Jim Allen at the Australian National University in 1966-1968 [6] and Judy Birmingham (from the University of Sydney) working at Irrawang Pottery in the Hunter ...