Lourandos, Harry (2020) Book review of "Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal archaeology in Southeastern Australia" by David Frankel. Sydney, NSW, Australia, Sydney University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-74332-552-0. Australian Archaeology, 86 (2). pp. 198-199.

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[Extract] Many of the key debates that have shaped Australian archaeology for the past 60 years or so have found a home in southeastern Australia. These debates include early ancestral Aboriginal burial sites and issues of repatriation, the vexing megafaunal question, the 'Intensification Debate' that opened up new avenues of investigation, Indigenous perspectives on their own history, multivocality, reflexivity and general ethical questions surrounding archaeological practices and Aboriginal history. Such debates have largely structured the course of archaeological procedure including research design, excavation, analysis and interpretation of material over the last five or six decades in both academic and public archaeological arenas. A book on southeastern Australian Aboriginal archaeology, therefore, could be expected to engage with these key debates, their data, interpretations and wider perspectives and to place them before a general, specialist or mixed audience.

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