Correspondence, notes and other documentation relating to Aboriginal archaeology, including the following items:

Newspaper cuttings relating to Aboriginal archaeology:

  1. Article by Herbert Basedow (AA 22) in The Saturday Journal, 19 December 1925, entitled 'The ingenuity of the Blacks'. This article discusses the occurrence and use of slate-scraping tools found at Normanville, Woodville and other sites in the Adelaide area.

  2. Article from The Saturday Journal, 26 December 1925, by Percy Stapleton (AA 306) on Aboriginal slate-scraping implements. This article includes references to examples of these tools found at the Patawalonga and Tea Tree Gully (near Adelaide), and at Tantanoola and Cape Douglas in south-east South Australia.

  3. Article from The Advertiser, 20 January 1964, reporting the discovery of a new cave on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura in Western Australia.

  4. Article from The Advertiser, 13 May 1964, reporting the discovery by Campbell's expedition of stone tools at Tallaringa Well in the Great Victoria Desert.

  5. Article from an unidentified ACT newspaper, 6 October 1964, reporting the discovery of stone artefacts in the Canberra suburb of Dickson.

  6. Undated clipping (c. 1967) reporting on the progress of the survey by the Anthropological Society of South Australia (AA 824) to record Aboriginal canoe trees in the Chowilla area.

CreatorProfessor Thomas Draper Campbell
ControlAA 52/4/4 A-F
Date Range1925  -  1925
FormatsNewspaper Clippings, General Correspondence, Maps, Loose Photographic Prints
Series AA 52/04