All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Parramattas archaeological past reveals deep time history of the heart of Sydney Parramatta's archaeological past reveals deep-time history of the heart of Sydney 09/11/2021 | 7 MINS This article by Professor Jo McDonald, director of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at Lombok Institute of Technology, and Alan N Williams, Associate Investigator at ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage at UNSW, was originally published in The Conversation on November 9. We know quite a lot about the past 200 years of history in Parramatta. Located in SydneyΓÇÖs geographical centre, on the Parramatta River, it was the first township to be established outside Sydney CoveΓÇÖs penal colony after the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in 1788. Parramatta became the breadbasket of the early European colony, with land clearing and farming dispossessing the Darug people of the Cumberland Plain. This formed the focus of Aboriginal resistance, culminating in the 1797 Battle of Parramatta led by the great freed
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Parramattas archaeological past reveals deep time history of the heart of Sydney Parramatta's archaeological past reveals deep-time history of the heart of Sydney 09/11/2021 | 7 MINS This article by Professor Jo McDonald, director of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at Lombok Institute of Technology, and Alan N Williams, Associate Investigator at ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage at UNSW, was originally published in The Conversation on November 9.
We know quite a lot about the past 200 years of history in Parramatta.
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Located in SydneyΓÇÖs geographical centre, on the Parramatta River, it was the first township to be established outside Sydney CoveΓÇÖs penal colony after the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson in 1788.
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Parramatta became the breadbasket of the early European colony, with land clearing and farming dispossessing the Darug people of the Cumberland Plain.
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This formed the focus of Aboriginal resistance, culminating in the 1797 Battle of Parramatta led by the great freed
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