ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses approaches to heritage in Australia that have challenged the separation of the settler and Aboriginal pastoral domains and which are developing new perspectives on pastoral heritage that show the entangled and productive place of Aboriginal people in pastoral landscapes. Using case studies from pastoral areas of inland Australia, the chapter illustrates diverse associations of Aboriginal people with pastoralism, arguing that these are dynamic and creative in terms of the pastoral identities and pastoralism forms that are emerging. These case studies include archaeological and geographical perspectives that find Aboriginal associations with pastoralism in and around the homesteads and woolsheds of pastoral stations. The chapter argues that attention to artefacts in the landscapes - buildings, fences, stockyards, campsite remains in conjunction with diverse empirical sources can contribute to demystifying processes of landscape production and reproduction, producing detailed social histories of specific places. D. Byrne has argued that a focus on sites has been 'debilitating' for Aboriginal cultural heritage management.
