ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with a study of cross-cultural engagements from coastal northern Australia (Figure 6.1). It aims to weave together three interconnected threads to present an example of an inclusive, multi-vocal archaeology of cross-cultural engagement. The first thread places the study within the structure of a community-based approach to the design and conduct of a fieldwork project. The second thread presents some results of archaeological research concerned with trajectories of change and continuity in settlement and subsistence patterns across a time period spanning the late Holocene from approximately 2,500 years ago to the present day. The third thread connects an indigenous understanding of landscape, time and history together with the archaeology to present an account of the processes of cross-cultural engagement within the framework of a landscape stratified according to different cultural constructions of time.
