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A Dingo Burial From the Arnhem Land Plateau

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Australian Indigenous Culture and History Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Human-Animal Interaction Studies

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The skeleton of a mature dingo was found wrapped in paperbark and cached on a ledge in a rockshelter on the Arnhem Land plateau. Such burials have not previously been recorded from the region and are considered uncommon by contemporary Jawoyn elders. Radiocarbon dating of a vertebra from the skeleton provided a conventional radiocarbon age of 77±35 BP. This finding is discussed in relation to other recorded aspects of the dingo’s relationship with humans in the ethnography and also its presentation in the rock art of Arnhem Land and elsewhere in Australia.

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1899The Native Tribes of Central Australia 1964The World of the First Australians 1983Archaeology of the dreamtime 2005Jawoyn-English Dictionary and English Finder List 1979The Australian Aborigines 1969SUBSISTENCE BEHAVIOUR AMONG THE WESTERN DESERT ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA1 1976Nomads of the Australian desert 1993Journey in time : the world's longest continuing art tradition : the 50,000 year story of the Australian aboriginal rock art of Arnhem land

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