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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Archaeologist as Hero in Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming
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'Billy Griffiths relates an encounter in Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia(Black Inc., 2018) that I think is representative of this readable, journalistic book about the history of Australian archaeology. Driving towards Lake Mungo, Griffiths is guided by Daryl Pappin, a Mutthi Mutthi man. They are discussing the effect of the archaeological ‘discoveries’ in the area and Griffiths tries to draw Pappin into celebrating this new knowledge, and what it means for Indigenous antiquity...'  (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph: ‘Possessing the other… like possessing the past, is always full of delusions’ – Greg Dening

     

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