Lara Lamb
Phone: +61 7 46311069
Address: School of Arts and Communication
Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, QLD., 4350
Australia
Address: School of Arts and Communication
Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, QLD., 4350
Australia
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suggest that efforts by local tribes of the Kikori River Delta to indirectly control the trade of redistributed pots coming from the east led to the initial permanent occupation of the islands and allowed for large population densities as well as the development or expansion of the Kerewo head-hunting cult. Fieldwork to test this model has now been carried out at
3 abandoned ancestral village sites in the Kikori Delta. The archaeological results point to initial establishment of villages in the Delta islands from around 500 years ago. Initial village
establishment coincides with the beginnings of the Hiri trade described in Motu oral traditions and is thus broadly supportive of the proposed model of occupation.
peoples’ attempts to “spiritually manage and control their seas and ultimately orchestrate their seascapes”. This paper describes identical forms of arrangements on salt flats at Mine
Island and posits that this unique form of ceremonial arrangement – duplicated at several sites ranging from Cape Upstart in the north down to Shoalwater Bay in the south - forms part of a culture complex relating to among other things a shared belief system explicitly linked to “spiritual engagements with the sea”. A recent midden excavation directly associated with the Mine Island stone arrangements (one of literally dozens of associated middens) provides the first evidence of a possible temporal framework for the initial
establishment of the stone arrangements and associated ritual practice.
McNiven. I. 2003. Saltwater People: spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of
Australian indigenous seascapes. World Archaeology Vol. 35 (3) pp 329-349.