STONE TOOL WORKSHOPS
Everick Foundation facilitate these Stone Tool Workshops to support Traditional Owners in their cultural responsibility to care for Country, allowing them to accurately identify cultural heritage and protect their history.
The workshop can be particularly useful to new Cultural Heritage Field Officers to build skills in artefact identification.
Overview
Everick Foundation has facilitated a series of stone tool workshops for Aboriginal groups across Queensland, presented by Professor Chris Clarkson from the University of Queensland School of Social Science.
The information and practical skills presented in the workshops help Traditional Owners in their cultural responsibility to care for Country, allowing them to accurately identify cultural heritage and protect their history. The workshop can be particularly useful to new Cultural Heritage Field Officers to build skills in artefact identification.
Learning Outcomes
Stone tool types and identification
Raw material types and identification
Practical experimental archaeology knapping session
Participants attempt to create their own stone tools
Better understand the stone tool production process
Facilitator - Professor Chris Clarckson
Professor Chris Clarkson is an archaeologist specialising in the analysis of stone tools. He completed his undergraduate and Honours degrees at the University of Queensland, his PhD at the Australian National University, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, and then took up a lectureship at the University of Queensland in 2005. Chris now teaches students about how to identify, make, record and analyse stone tools, as well as teaching ancient technology, Australian Indigenous Archaeology, Human Evolution and other topics. His research involves working closely with indigenous Australians on cultural heritage, including recently excavating Australia’s oldest known site of Madjedbebe in Arnhem Land in close collaboration with the Mirarr people.
Participants
The information and practical skills presented in the workshops help Traditional Owners in their cultural responsibility to care for Country, allowing them to accurately identify cultural heritage and protect their history. The workshop can be particularly useful to new Cultural Heritage Field Officers to build skills in artefact identification.
Everick Foundation has facilitated workshops for:
The Wulli Wulli Nation Aboriginal Corporation
The Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation
The Iman People
The Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation
Cost
POA
Location
On Country throughout Queensland.
Workshops can be facilitated at the University of Queensland’s world class archaeology laboratory space or Archaeology Teaching and Research Centre (ATARC).
Dates
Open dates, confirmed on application
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FAQs
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Low level of activity required.
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No previous experience is necessary. In fact, we’re expecting you to be new to archaeology - so don’t be shy!
Terms
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