{"id":"TACON2019-001","label":"Clews Ridge small burnt bullroarer","people_or_site":"Clews Ridge, a major ridgeline south of Gallery Rock, southern Wollemi National Park, Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"New South Wales / Greater Blue Mountains / Wollemi National Park","macroregion":"Australia","local_name":"","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"One small bullroarer, burnt, found with three blocks of resin, the partial remains of two fire drills, and a fire board at rock-shelter sites on Clews Ridge.","function_summary":"Not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"tacon_et_al_2019_gallery_rock_p79_clews_ridge","source_type":"archaeological_article","source_url":"https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/389149","page_or_plate":"p. 79","map_confidence":"low","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Southern Wollemi National Park locality anchor; the publication deliberately withholds an exact shelter or ridge coordinate for a sensitive Aboriginal cultural landscape, consistent with the atlas's handling of other undisclosed Australian sites.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Among the rock shelters of Clews Ridge, a major ridgeline south of Gallery Rock in the Wollemi wilderness of the Greater Blue Mountains, an archaeological team led by Paul Taçon recorded a small burnt bullroarer alongside blocks of resin, the remains of fire drills, and a fire board — the ordinary kit of people camped and working in these shelters. The charred wood likely dates from after about AD 1800, since older wood rarely lasts in this fire-prone country; no photograph, drawing, or exact find-site beyond \"Clews Ridge\" has been published.","pull_quote":"The find complements a wooden fire-stick located by our team in another shelter in 2003 (Taçon et al. 2005), as well as 3 blocks of resin, partial remains of two fire drills, a fire board and a small burnt bullroarer at sites on Clews Ridge, a major ridgeline to the south of Gallery Rock.","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Taçon, Brennan, King, Pross and Kelleher, \"The contemporary cultural significance of Gallery Rock\" (2019), p. 79","term_gloss":"No local Aboriginal-language term is recorded for it.","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"object","date_display":"After c. AD 1800","date_qualification":"Regional estimate; object not directly dated.","date_basis":"regional_synthesis","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"tacon_et_al_2019_gallery_rock_p79_clews_ridge, p. 79","sources":[{"citation":"Paul S. C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Graham King, Dave Pross and Matthew Kelleher, \"The contemporary cultural significance of Gallery Rock, a petroglyph complex recently found in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia,\" in Jillian Huntley and George Nash (eds.), Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art: A Festschrift in Honour of John Kay Clegg (Archaeopress, 2019), p. 79","url":"https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/389149","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240603153722/https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/389149"}],"source_citations":"Paul S. C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Graham King, Dave Pross and Matthew Kelleher, \"The contemporary cultural significance of Gallery Rock, a petroglyph complex recently found in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia,\" in Jillian Huntley and George Nash (eds.), Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art: A Festschrift in Honour of John Kay Clegg (Archaeopress, 2019), p. 79","source_display":"Paul S. C. Taçon, Wayne Brennan, Graham King, Dave Pross and Matthew Kelleher, \"The contemporary cultural significance of Gallery Rock, a petroglyph complex recently found in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia,\" in Jillian Huntley and George Nash (eds.), Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary…","date_citation_display":"Tacon et al 2019 Gallery Rock p79 Clews Ridge, p. 79","object_display":"One small bullroarer, burnt, found with three blocks of resin, the partial remains of two fire drills, and a fire board at rock-shelter sites on Clews Ridge.","function_display":"Not recorded.","confidence_display":"low","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"clews ridge","display_name":"Clews Ridge small burnt bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/au_sg1899_churinga.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/au_sg1899_churinga_thumb.jpg","alt":"Printed plate of seven wooden churinga or sacred sticks attributed in the figure caption to the Urabunna, Luritja, and Arunta: six elongated boards with varied incised or dotted designs and one wrapped in bark.","credit":"Spencer & Gillen, The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899), Fig. 20","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/nativetribesofce00spenuoft","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Spencer & Gillen Fig. 20: wooden churinga or sacred sticks of the Urabunna.","pool_id":"auto-au_sg1899_churinga"},"slug":"tacon2019-001-clews-ridge-a-major-ridgeline-south-of-gallery-rock-southern-wollemi-nationa"}