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  • From the perspective of time: hunter-gatherer burials in south-eastern Australia

  • Judith Littleton
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 81 / Issue 314 / 1 December 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 1013-1028
    Print publication:
    1 December 2007

  • In this study of the Murray River basin in south-eastern Australia, the author shows that Aboriginal burials are persistently attracted to specific kinds of landscape feature intermittently over long periods of time. Some attributes of burial, like body position, vary from site to site and over much shorter periods; others, like orientation, are even more local, relating only to a specific group of graves. Burial rites are thus sets of variables which may be independent of each other and change at different rates. Far from reflecting cultural arrivals and departures, in south-eastern Australia burial grounds were never formally founded and continually abandoned.