Anthropos
Australis (WA) Pty Ltd, on instructions from and in collaboration with the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation (NAC), commenced
the heritage survey for the Anketell Project, in the west Pilbara, on the 17th
of February 2014.
This heritage survey forms a part of the outcome of several years of native title negotiations between the Department of State Development (DSD) representing the Government and the NAC, assisted by a team of negotiators including Nicholas Green who provided “best practice” heritage advice for the duration of the negotiations. The negotiations concluded in late 2013 with the drafting of an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA), which to be signed by the Premier of Western Australia and the Ngarluma native title holders. The ILUA allows for the provision of a heritage survey, funded by the Government, with Anthropos Australis (WA) Pty Ltd being agreed by all parties to be the heritage service provider. The heritage survey of the future port, access corridor and industrial areas, is being undertaken by our professional staff with the NAC’s heritage staff, and is expected to continue until June 2014.
This heritage survey forms a part of the outcome of several years of native title negotiations between the Department of State Development (DSD) representing the Government and the NAC, assisted by a team of negotiators including Nicholas Green who provided “best practice” heritage advice for the duration of the negotiations. The negotiations concluded in late 2013 with the drafting of an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA), which to be signed by the Premier of Western Australia and the Ngarluma native title holders. The ILUA allows for the provision of a heritage survey, funded by the Government, with Anthropos Australis (WA) Pty Ltd being agreed by all parties to be the heritage service provider. The heritage survey of the future port, access corridor and industrial areas, is being undertaken by our professional staff with the NAC’s heritage staff, and is expected to continue until June 2014.
The Survey
Team, co-managed by Ian Scott (Manager-Heritage Services) and Richard Walker (Heritage
Manager-NAC) includes Camille Tanner (Project Leader), Tiwa Olowoyo, Kirsty
Potts and Shannon Smith working with four Ngarluma
Elders, four Ngarluma walkers
(working with the archaeologists) plus Adeline Simmonds (Heritage Liaison
Officer-NAC).
The
Survey Team has a physically challenging but significant task ahead of them, to
survey 43 km2 of coastal country within the Ngarluma Determination Area. The Survey Area is located between the North
West Coastal Highway and the coast but does not include Cleaverville, Mount
Anketell or Dixon Island. The Survey Team
is using a hybrid recording methodology agreed to by the Government, to record
the many Aboriginal Heritage Locations including quarries, artefact scatters,
shell middens, rock shelters and engravings being located during the course of
the survey.
Since
the early 1980s, there have been a variety of heritage related surveys conducted
in the area, but this is the first time that such a large area of land has been
systematically examined for evidence of Ngarluma
heritage with the full involvement and under the control of the Ngarluma native title holders.
We
are very grateful for the support and trust provided to us by the Ngarluma people, the NAC and the
Government, in being the Project Manager for this significant survey, which we
hope, will result in a better understanding of the cultural heritage values of
the Ngarluma people enabling the
protection of their sites into the future.
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