Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Archaeology of Roonka - Field Note Book, 1983

Archive Collections / Graeme Lloyd Pretty / Series AA 255/16 / Archaeology of Roonka - Field Note Book, 1983

This notebook records visits to various locations near Blanchetown in 1983, plus one visit in 1984.
The 1983 visits are numbered 83/1 - 83/7.
The 1984 visit doesn't have a number.

83/1 - 16/2/1983: Visit to Moorundie (a few kms downstream from Blanchetown), to take part in a Department of Environment and Planning initiated telecast.
The aim of the visit was to get Moorundie on the State Heritage Register.
There was a visit to Roonka on this trip as well.

83/2 - 31/3/1983: Visit to Swan Reach with SA Aboriginal Cultural Committee.
There was an inspection of the site of the SW Swan Reach Aboriginal settlement and its burial ground.
The options of including these sites under the Aboriginal Heritage Act or the Local Government Act were discussed but no conclusions noted.

83/3 - 19/4/1983: To Roonka to orient museum display staff.
Graeme Pretty visited several locations at the Roonka site with three people from the museum.

83/4 - Undated: Visit to Roonka with Donald Pate to collect water samples for CA/SR analysis [Ca is calcium; Sr is strontium].
Water samples were collected from the Roonka Flat Dune area, the main stream, "the island" (Piorubko) and Cumbunga Creek.

83/5 - 14/8/1983: Graeme Pretty records that he received a visit at home from Andrew Willing. He notes that Andrew's parents-in-law are Mr & Mrs Ken Penrose of Haylands Station. It's not clear who Andrew Willing is or what the significance of this visit is.

83/6 - Undated: Visit to resurvey the island (Piorubko).
A team of SAIT students and their lecturer, Jim Le Roux, visited Roonka for the day to plan a resurvey of the Cumbunga Creek area as some of the original survey measurements were apparently inaccurate.

83/7 - 23/10/1983: Trip to Roonka to inspect EB2 location [East Bank Trench 2], Assist John Prescott with his dosimetry and show the site to Colin Cook.

21/4/1984: To Katarapko Island, Loxton to advise the Genonid [? unreadable] Council and National Geographic Society of Washington re finds of human remains.
David Austin of the National Geographic Society of Washington had contacted Graeme Pretty, seeking advice about human remains he had been shown on Katarapko Island, Loxton.

Creator: Graeme Lloyd Pretty
Control: AA 255/16/22/1
Date Range:  16 February, 1983  -  21 April, 1983
Quantity:    1  
Formats: Notebooks
Series:  AA 255/16
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