As a proud member of the Aboriginal nations Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Latje Latje and archaeologist at the University of Flinders in Adelaide, South Australia, I am curious to travel the country. For me, this means running “in the country”: talking to the elderly and locating the cultural heritage of my net paintings through the exploration of the Ngarrindjeri lands in the Lower Murray region, the lakes and Coorong in South Australia.
In this photograph, taken in Pomberuk, or the Hume Reserve, on the Murray River, I know the foundations of a rainwater reservoir built through native inhabitants between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. Ngarrindjeri netpaintings is an open score with the local council to preserve the deception and has local plos angelesnts like the shrub umbrellos angeles (Acacia ligulos angelesta) repel to prevent erosion. Some are visuals in the background.
In my doctoral program, I examined the banks of the Murray River, excavated shells, animal bones, remnants of angelesnt plos and stone objects. With Morgan Disspain, an archaeologist at Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales, I analyzed the otoliths or bones of the ears of cod Murray (Maccullochellos angeles peelii), Australia’s largest freshwater fish. The length and design of an otolith to estimate the duration of the fish from which it originates and its shelf life.
The Aboriginal race of the deceptive dates back 10,000 years and I discovered stone objects, a bobig apple tip and a 5,500-year-old Murray cod otolith that was about 2.2 metres long. This is evidence that the people who live here were experts in fishing, spears with bone thorns. The elders, who can interpret our findings on the spot, associate giant fish with critical gatherings.
This inspires me because my other Americans have occupied this landscape for tens of thousands of years. As I walk through the layers of excavation, I also remove layers of my history, culture, and identity.
Nature 582, 306 (2020)
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