Cultural sites in GunaiKurnai Country

Jessie C. Buettel; Russell Mullett; Jessie Birkett-Rees; Bruno David; Jean-Jacques Delannoy; Joanna Fresløv; Stefania Ondei; Robert John Skelly; Jerome Mialanes

Monash Indigenous Studies Centre

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Abstract

A key dimension of GunaiKurnai ecology and GKLaWAC’s Whole-of-Country Plan is that the whole landscape is cultural (see Chapter 1). What, then, are ‘cultural sites’ if the whole landscape is cultural? For the purposes of this volume, we refer to individual Aboriginal places as ‘cultural sites’ if they show archaeological evidence of past Aboriginal activities, or if they are associated with oral traditions, while not forgetting that the entire landscape is an artefact of cultural practice and Country in GunaiKurnai ways and management. We stress also that while we report on cultural sites listed in the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Register
(VAHR), the vast majority of sites in GunaiKurnai Country surely remain unrecorded given the limited surveyed areas. In this chapter we examine the role of heritage legislation in shaping the VAHR and consider the locations of cultural sites in relation to surface geology, current vegetation cover and current land use, and what this may mean for fire risk.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fires in GunaiKurnai Country
Subtitle of host publication	Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia
Editors	Jessie C. Buettel, Bruno David, Russell Mullett, Joanna Fresløv, Katherine Szabo
Place of Publication	Summertown Oxford UK
Publisher	Archaeopress
Chapter	6
Pages	61-87
Number of pages	27
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781803274829
ISBN (Print)	9781803274812
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

Cultural burning
Fire management
Landscape archaeology
Bushfire and wildfire

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Buettel, J. C., Mullett, R., Birkett-Rees, J., David, B., Delannoy, J.-J., Fresløv, J., Ondei, S., Skelly, R. J., & Mialanes, J. (2023). Cultural sites in GunaiKurnai Country. In J. C. Buettel, B. David, R. Mullett, J. Fresløv, & K. Szabo (Eds.), Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia (1st ed., pp. 61-87). Archaeopress.

Buettel, Jessie C. ; Mullett, Russell ; Birkett-Rees, Jessie et al. / Cultural sites in GunaiKurnai Country. Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia. editor / Jessie C. Buettel ; Bruno David ; Russell Mullett ; Joanna Fresløv ; Katherine Szabo. 1st. ed. Summertown Oxford UK : Archaeopress, 2023. pp. 61-87

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Cultural sites in GunaiKurnai Country. / Buettel, Jessie C.; Mullett, Russell; Birkett-Rees, Jessie et al.
Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia. ed. / Jessie C. Buettel; Bruno David; Russell Mullett; Joanna Fresløv; Katherine Szabo. 1st. ed. Summertown Oxford UK: Archaeopress, 2023. p. 61-87.

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Buettel JC, Mullett R, Birkett-Rees J , David B, Delannoy JJ, Fresløv J et al. Cultural sites in GunaiKurnai Country. In Buettel JC, David B, Mullett R, Fresløv J, Szabo K, editors, Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia. 1st ed. Summertown Oxford UK: Archaeopress. 2023. p. 61-87

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Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia

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