![]() ![]() "They could see the currency of the deep past and they were actively mobilising insights from our excavations in their own contemporary fight against uranium mining, which brought home how politically charged this field is. "The local Indigenous people were interested and sceptical," Griffiths says. Dr Griffiths is a historian and lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University in Melbourne. ![]() Deeply researched, creatively conceived and beautifully written, it charts the expansion of archaeological knowledge in Australia for the. ![]() Griffiths' Deep Time Dreaming, Uncovering Ancient Australia charts that archaeological journey through pioneering scholars, excavations and discoveries, winning this year's NSW Premier's Literary Award Book of the Year and sharing the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction with Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner.Ī research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Griffiths set out to learn the craft of "deep time" by joining an archaeological excavation in Arnhem Land, working on site during the day - "slowly trowling our way through time, coming across these little residues of former worlds and piecing them together, what stories they had to tell" - and earning his keep as camp cook. Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming is one such book. ![]()
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