Correspondence, notes and other documentation relating to Aboriginal archaeology, including the following items:
Newspaper cuttings relating to Aboriginal archaeology:
- 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.
- 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.
- Article from The Advertiser, 20 January 1964, reporting the discovery of a new cave on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura in Western Australia.
- 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.
- Article from an unidentified ACT newspaper, 6 October 1964, reporting the discovery of stone artefacts in the Canberra suburb of Dickson.
- 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.
Creator: Professor Thomas Draper Campbell
Control: AA 52/4/4 A-F
Formats: Newspaper Clippings, General Correspondence, Maps, Loose Photographic Prints
Series:
AA 52/04