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The Invisible Moonbirds: Making Meaning from Unexpected Absences in the Archaeology of Wybalenna, a 19th Century Settlement of palawa (Tasmanian First Nations) Exiles (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A series of cottages on the settlement of Wybalenna on Flinders Island, in Bass Strait, housed Tasmania’s exiled palawa peoples for a ten year period, from 1837, when the cottages were constructed, to 1847 when the palawa community won repatriation to the Tasmanian mainland. Judy Birmingham’s study of materials found on an amateur...