Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming

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University of Western Australia

Despite the acknowledged National Heritage significance of the Dampier Archipelago's petroglyphs and stone features, there has been little research which assists in knowing when, why and how this art was produced. This landscape was occupied and art was produced both before and after sea level rise c.8-6,000 years ago. Developing a reliable chronology of occupation will allow a reconstruction of the role that art played in land-use systems of the Archipelago and adjacent Abydos Plain. This aims to be achieved by targeting and analysing landscapes associated with the earliest art of the Archipelago. The second aim is to explore contemporary social connections to this place back to first contact with historical seafarers and colonial settlers.

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Use of micro-analysis to augment the macro-archaeological investigation of an elevated Holocene shell midden, Dampier Archipelago, NW Australia
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Ward, I., McDonald, J., Monks, C. and Fairweather, J.
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Frontiers in Earth Science
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feart-10-837338.pdf
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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.837338/full
Underwater archaeology and submerged landscapes in Western Australia
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Journal article
Authors
Benjamin, J., O'Leary, M., Ward, I., Hacker, J., Ulm, S., Veth, P., Holst, M., McDonald, J., Ross, P.J. and Bailey, G.
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Antiquity
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©Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/underwater-archaeolog…
Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia
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Journal article
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Benjamin, J., O’Leary, M., McDonald, J., Wiseman, C., McCarthy, J., Beckett, E., Morrison, P., Stankiewicz, F., Leach, J., Hacker, J. and Baggaley, P.
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PloS one
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Copyright: © 2020 Benjamin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233912&utm_s…
The Mermaid? Re-envisaging the 1818 exploration of Enderby Island, Murujuga, Western Australia
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Journal article
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Paterson, A., Shellam, T., Veth, P., Mulvaney, K., Anderson, R., Dortch, J. and McDonald, J.
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The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
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The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 0:1–21, 2019 Copyright # 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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TheMermaidReenvisagingthe1818explorationofEnderbyIslandMurujugaWesternAustralia002.pdf
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15564894.2019.1604007
Seeing the Landscape: Multiple Scales of Visualising Terrestrial Heritage on Rosemary Island (Dampier Archipelago)
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Journal article
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McDonald, J., Beckett, E., Hacker, J., Morrison, P. and O’Leary, M.
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Open Quaternary
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Licence: CC BY
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McDonald_Seeing_P2020.pdf
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https://researchnow.flinders.edu.au/en/publications/seeing-the-landscape-multip…
A Strategy for Assessing Continuity in Terrestrial and Maritime Landscapes from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), North West Shelf, Australia
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Journal article
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Veth, P., McDonald, J., Ward, I., O’Leary, M., Beckett, E., Benjamin, J., Ulm, S., Hacker, J., Ross, P.J. and Bailey, G
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The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
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Copyright © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. In accordance with the publisher's policies, this Author Accepted Manuscript for this article is available Open Access from ResearchOnline@JCU.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15564894.2019.1572677
A Multi-Scalar Approach to Marine Survey and Underwater Archaeological Site Prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia
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Journal article
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Wiseman, Chelsea, O'Leary, Michael, Hacker, Jorg, Stankiewicz, Francis, McCarthy, John, Beckett, Emma, Leach, Jerem, Baggaley, Paul, Collins, Charles, Ulm, Sean, McDonald, Jo, and Benjamin, Jonathan
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Quaternary International
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. In accordance with the publisher's policies, the Author Accepted Manuscript of this article is available Open Access under a Creative Commons licence from ResearchOnline@JCU after 9 September 2022.
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https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/64397/
Murujuga Rockshelter: First evidence for Pleistocene occupation on the Burrup Peninsula
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Journal article
Authors
McDonald, J., Reynen, W., Ditchfield, K., Dortch, J., Leopold, M., Stephenson, B., Whitley, T., Ward, I. and Veth, P.
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Quaternary Science Reviews
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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379117308752
So ends this day: American whalers in Yaburara country, Dampier Archipelago
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Journal article
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Paterson, A., Anderson, R., Mulvaney, K., de Koning, S., Dortch, J. and McDonald, J.
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antiquity
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©Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2019
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/so-ends-this-day-…