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In 2003 Andrew Long ( Andrew Long & Ass. Archaeological & Heritage consultants ) wrote ” There is an enormous amount of information that can be gathered from scarred trees , though so far this potential has not been widely explored ” . And so it remains ….I have contacted every Aboriginal / Archaeological Uni dept./group/politician that […]
I am over on Oxley Island near Old Bar for a week & have been paddling around the Manning river but have seen no scartrees at all. Maybe thats because of the wetter wilder weather here or different tree types that don’t hold scarring like the coolabah & bimble box or simply population pressure in […]
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Bora : The word Bora will be used in this book to mean a ceremonial ground or ceremony held on a Bora Ground. Dendroglyph : An incised tree. Glyph : The incised part of a Dendroglyph. Teleteglyph: Incised tree at a Ceremonial Ground. Taphoglyph : Incised tree at a Burial Ground. Wiradjuri: A tribe on […]
My sister in law Nicky recently sent me a link to a SMH article about scartrees near the northern Victorian town of Boort http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/-gtjok8.html This is an excerpt …Cultural heritage consultant Andrew Long, an expert in scarred trees who has advised Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, learned about the trees in 1993 doing archeological work. When the […]
Last week Dr Mark Moore from UNE and some of his Archaeology students as well as Ted Feilds & Bill Kennedy & Allan from the Walgett DEG came out and had a look at some artefacts and trees. They had been in the district awhile looking at Aboriginal sites & did some work out at the […]
So I went out to Broken Hill for this years’ rural womens festival and met some interesting girls and took in the unforgettable landscapes and the Menindee lake system. We also got a guided tour of the hand stencils & rock engravings in the Mutawintji National Park. Some of the engravings were of the wildlife […]
I have never been a social media user and as I sat down to write this first blog comment I was interrupted by a local Kamilaroi man who knows of my interest in these scar trees. Allan and his son Shannon had dropped by to collect a cheque for work done over sowing but we […]