Transdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Past Australian Aboriginal Foodways

Authors

  • Michael C. Westaway University of Queensland
  • Nathan Wright University of New England and Everick Heritage
  • Alison Crowther University of Queensland
  • Jennifer Silcock University of Queensland
  • Rodney Carter Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation
  • Patrick Moss University of Queensland
  • Robert Henry University of Queensland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/aff.18161

Keywords:

agriculture, food procurement, Aboriginal food systems, foodways, food production, food security

Abstract

Global understanding of past food systems is based on many lines of evidence, involving complex multidisciplinary contributions. It has long been considered that since Australia’s first colonisation, now dated to 65,000 years ago, its peoples were supported largely through foraging as opposed to farming. Recent research has challenged that perspective, contentiously proposing that Australia’s first nations peoples developed agricultural systems before European colonisation. This proposal has been subject to significant critique, but support of the food-producing nature of Aboriginal society has been boosted by new multi-disciplinary evidence for early aquaculture and possibly cultivation, as well as for the translocation of plants though trans-continental trade systems. While this analysis has generated new discussion and debate, it has also highlighted systemic empirical biases; archaeological data for pre-European plant exploitation remains sparse, and we consistently rely on potentially unrepresentative and historically shallow ethnographic information to fill that gap. We argue that by employing collaborative transdisciplinary research that incorporates Western scientific and Indigenous knowledge pathways, we can more effectively explore the diverse and complex nature of Aboriginal foodways in Australia’s past, from the earliest human arrivals to its current mosaic of different food systems.

Author Biographies

  • Michael C. Westaway, University of Queensland

    Michael C. Westaway is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Archaeology, the School of Social Science, the University of Queensland. His research interests include the interaction of people and their environments in Australia and Papua New Guinea, and modern human origins east of the Wallace Line.

  • Nathan Wright, University of New England and Everick Heritage

    Nathan Wright is a Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and History, the University of New England. His research focuses on plant use and human-environment interactions, especially those related to landscape modification and management.

  • Alison Crowther, University of Queensland

    Alison Crowther is Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Archaeology, the School of Social Science, the University of Queensland. Her research interests include the archaeobotany of foraging and farming in the Indo-Pacific region, past human-environmental relationships, and ancient food processing technologies.

  • Jennifer Silcock, University of Queensland

    Jen Silcock is a Research Fellow with the University of Queensland and the Queensland Herbarium. Her research focuses on threatened species conservation, historical ecology, rangeland management, ethnobotany, and desert oases.

  • Rodney Carter, Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation

    Rodney Carter is an Elder and the CEO of the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation. Through his leadership, he has applied his cultural knowledge to initiate a program of sustainable development for the Dja Dja Wurung and broader community that includes projects in food futures, environmental conservation, and the protection of cultural heritage.

  • Patrick Moss, University of Queensland

    Patrick Moss is a Professor in Physical Geography in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the University of Queensland. His research interests include palynology and charcoal analysis in the Australian and South East Asian regions, with a focus on past human environmental relationships, vegetation history, and fire ecology.

  • Robert Henry, University of Queensland

    Robert Henry is Professor of Innovation in Agriculture in the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation at the University of Queensland. His research interests include the genomics of food quality, wild plants, and plants of economic and social importance.

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2023-12-29

How to Cite

Westaway, M. C., Wright, N., Crowther, A. ., Silcock, J., Carter, R., Moss, P., & Henry, R. (2023). Transdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Past Australian Aboriginal Foodways. Archaeology of Food and Foodways, 2(1), 47-74. https://doi.org/10.1558/aff.18161