Volcanism in Aboriginal Australian oral traditions : ethnographic evidence from the newer volcanics province

Title: Volcanism in Aboriginal Australian oral traditions : ethnographic evidence from the newer volcanics province
Creator: Wilkie, Benjamin; Cahir, David (Fred); Clark, Ian
Date: 2020
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174704
Identifier: vital:14914
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106999
Identifier: ISBN:0377-0273
Abstract: This article collects and presents nineteenth-century ethnographic evidence from the Newer Volcanics Province of Australia and explores how volcanism was recorded and understood in Aboriginal oral traditions. It investigates whether Aboriginal Australian oral traditions can be understood as persistent eyewitness accounts of volcanic eruptions in the Newer Volcanics Province, how andwhat kind of geological and volcanological knowledge was embedded within Aboriginal Australian oral traditions, and considers what value the ethnographic evidence has for understanding both the socio-cultural and geological histories of the Newer Volcanics Province.
Publisher: Elsevier
Relation: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research Vol. 403, no. (2020), p. 1-11
Rights: Metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Rights: Culturally sensitive
Subject: 0402 Geochemistry; 0403 Geology; 0404 Geophysics; Ethnology; Ethnogeology; Newer Volcanics Province; Volcanic eruptions
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