The Lost Legions: Culture Contact in Colonial Australia by Alistair G Paterson

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with protective plastic covering. No external stickers. Stamps on inside. Remnant date due slip on inside page now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Wear to book corners and edges. Marks on foredges. Body text and binding are still very good.

The Lost Legions explores the cultural interactions between indigenous peoples and European settlers.

Paterson draws especially on archaeological evidence from central Australia, where European pastoralists found themselves in the heart of the territory of the Aboriginal Arabana people. Paterson also considers other sources of information - such as oral histories, onomastics, and evidence of culture contact in the Americas and southern Africa - to develop a broad understanding of what happens when such different civilisations encounter one another. (back cover)