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EUROBODALLA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDY
South Coast NSW
• as material traces (eg. archaeological sites, graves, houses)
These manifestations are by no means mutually exclusive (eg. a natural resource use
location may be invested with spiritual meaning), but are useful delineations when
thinking about the documentation and management of the Aboriginal cultural heritage
values attached to a place/landscape.
Collection of Information
In order to accurately document Aboriginal peoples’ historical associations with
places in the study area and to develop an historical context for understanding those
associations, it was essential to record a broad range of associations and to tailor the
methods to capturing this information. As outlined in the introduction, this first stage
of the Eurobodalla Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Study aimed to record information on
Aboriginal history and cultural places in the study area through literature research. A
second stage aimed at recording community oral information has recently commenced
(Stage 2). 4 These different steps are shown in Figure 4. Discussion of the approach to
Stage 1 is discussed below.
Figure 4: Collecting Information on a Broad Range of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places in
the Study Area.
Literature Research 5
Literature
Research
(Stage 1)
Community Oral
Information
(Stage 2)
Establish a range of Aboriginal cultural
heritage places in the study area
The literature research was designed to fulfil three outcomes as stipulated in the
project brief:
• the development of a history of Aboriginal associations with place in the study
area;
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This second stage of the project is being carried out by Chris ‘Snappy’ Griffiths, DEC Aboriginal Sites
Officer.
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The Aboriginal History in the Eurobodalla Shire was researched and written by Kate Waters with
additional research conducted by Korey Moon.
Goulding Heritage Consulting Pty Ltd
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