The Narrative Atlas: creativity and multivocality in Indigenous archaeology

This practice-led exegesis broadens the concept of the "archaeological record" in Indigenous archaeology to embrace the cultural record, encompassing all dimensions of knowledge, culture, and Country. It integrates creative design research with archaeological enquiry to explore innovative methods of engaging with and evoking the cultural record of The Morass Fish Trap—to date, the largest and most in-tact Aboriginal earthen channel landscape discovered in Australia. Key contributions include the relocation and Ground-Penetration Radar mapping of Aboriginal earthen channel places in western Victoria, expressed through a creative Artists' Book called the Narrative Atlas, and the development of a significant oral history archive.