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The childhood of William Lanne: contact archaeology and Aboriginality in Tasmania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tim Murray
Tim Murray*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia
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Abstract

Excavation of a site not just of the ‘contact period’ but of contact itself gives a new view of those darkest years around 1840 when the remaining free Tasmanian Aboriginal people were tracked down and transported to death in exile.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993 , pp. 504 - 519
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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