Graduate School of the Environment - Western New South Wales Archaeology Program (WNSWAP)
Western NSW Archaeology Program (WNSWAP)
Western NSW Archaeology Program is a multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and Auckland University in New Zealand, working together with indigenous Traditional Owners of country and the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to progress the understanding and management of Indigenous material cultural heritage.
The projects use the latest electronic survey equipment, GIS, and database software to map, document and analyse the distribution of Aboriginal stone artefacts and associated heat-retainer hearths in their landscape context. They are supported by an intensive program of dating, using the charcoal and hearthstones from heat retainer hearths and sediments within valley fill sequences, to provide a chronology of landscape change and Aboriginal settlement.
