Book ID: 102868
Clarke, Philip A.
Australian Plants as Aboriginal Tools. 2012. illus. 374 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Describes the species that were essential as the means for manufacturing Aboriginal weapons, tools, shelter, watercraft, ceremonial objects, clothing, ornaments and paint. The author demonstrates how hunter-gatherers lived by making objects from plants and investigates similarities and differences of plant uses across Aboriginal Australia, as well as their distinctiveness in relation to practices from other parts of the world. An overview of the changing relationship that Aboriginal people have with the flora is given, along with a description of current trends. The present work is jointly concerned with theethnobotany and economic botany of Aboriginal Australia.