CONTENTS

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. ABOUT THE SERIES
  3. FOREWORD
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
  6. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
  7. Maritime Industrial Frontiers
  8. Whaling in the 19th Century
  9. DOCUMENTARY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
  10. Whaling station records
  11. Government records
  12. Newspaper reports
  13. Personal records
  14. Maps, plans and images
  15. Memoirs and oral histories
  16. Previous Archaeological Research
  17. CONCLUSION
  18. HISTORICAL WEIGHTS & MEASURES
  19. CHAPTER 2: HISTORY OF SHORE WHALING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  20. Pre–settlement (1616–1826)
  21. Early Settlement (1826–1842)
  22. Consolidation (1843–1869)
  23. Decline (1870–1879)
  24. ABORIGINAL WHALERS
  25. Nyungar Traditional Life
  26. Contact with Whalers and Whaling
  27. Aboriginal Whalers
  28. Whaling and Aboriginal Spiritual Life
  29. Whaling in Aboriginal Performance
  30. Whaling as Opportunity
  31. CHAPTER 3: PROCESS AND PRODUCTION
  32. EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS
  33. Employment Structure and Payment systems
  34. Worker Experience and Involvement Patterns
  35. Ethnicity
  36. Development of Labour Legislation
  37. Development of Labour Legislation
  38. Ownership and Management
  39. WHALING PARTIES & STATIONS
  40. Number and Size of Whaling Parties
  41. Number of Workers
  42. Whaling Stations
  43. WHALING TECHNOLOGY
  44. Equipment supply
  45. Diffusion of Technology
  46. Local Manufacture
  47. PRODUCTION AND EFFICIENCY
  48. The Whaling Season
  49. Catch efficiency
  50. Species of catch and catch strategy
  51. CHAPTER 4: WHALING STATION LOCATION AND ORGANISATION
  52. SITE SELECTION
  53. Lease Agreements
  54. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
  55. Environmental background
  56. Archaeological Survey
  57. Location - Bays and Headlands
  58. Look–outs
  59. Flensing areas
  60. Carcass Disposal
  61. Processing Area and Tryworks
  62. Oil Storage
  63. Boat ramps & launching areas
  64. Whalecraft storage and work areas
  65. Barracks and Domestic Buildings
  66. Other Structures
  67. Water Supply
  68. Gardens
  69. Burials
  70. Aboriginal Sites
  71. DISCUSSION
  72. CHAPTER 5: EXCAVATION OF CHEYNE BEACH WHALING STATION
  73. SITE DESCRIPTION
  74. Environment
  75. EXCAVATION METHOD
  76. STRATIGRAPHY
  77. Structure One
  78. Structure Two
  79. Midden Area
  80. Summary of Stratigraphic Units
  81. BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES
  82. CHAPTER 6: ARTEFACTS FROM CHEYNE BEACH
  83. HOUSEHOLD/STRUCTURAL
  84. Architectural/Construction artefacts
  85. Hardware
  86. Furnishings/Accessories
  87. Distributions in the Structural Category
  88. FOODWAYS
  89. Procurement
  90. Preparation
  91. Service
  92. Storage
  93. Distribution of ceramic and glass vessels
  94. Faunal Remains
  95. Discard in the Foodways Category
  96. CLOTHING
  97. Fasteners
  98. Manufacture
  99. Other
  100. Distribution in the Clothing Category
  101. PERSONAL
  102. Medicinal and Toiletries
  103. Cosmetic
  104. Recreational
  105. Monetary
  106. Decorative - jewelry, hairpins, hatpins
  107. Other
  108. LABOUR
  109. Whalecraft and Boating equipment
  110. ABORIGINAL ARTEFACTS
  111. ARTEFACT DISTRIBUTION
  112. CHAPTER 7: LIFE AT CHEYNE BEACH
  113. THE ALBANY SETTLEMENT
  114. Cheyne Beach
  115. INTERPRETATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
  116. Domestic Life
  117. Import Patterns and Local Manufacture
  118. Aboriginal Contact
  119. CONCLUSIONS
  120. CHAPTER 8: LIFE ON THE MARITIME INDUSTRIAL FRONTIER
  121. THE MARITIME INDUSTRIAL FRONTIER
  122. Whaling as Industrial Process
  123. Life on the Maritime Frontier
  124. CONCLUSIONS
  125. ADDENDA
  126. APPENDIX A: SITE HISTORIES AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS
  127. Survey Method
  128. NORTHWEST COAST
  129. Malus Island
  130. LOWER WEST COAST SITE SURVEY
  131. Marmion/Sorrento
  132. North Fremantle
  133. Bathers Bay / Fremantle
  134. Carnac Island
  135. Rottnest Island
  136. Safety Bay
  137. Bunbury Whaling Station
  138. Mininup
  139. Toby Inlet
  140. Castle Rock
  141. SOUTH COAST SURVEY
  142. Torbay/ Migo Island
  143. Barker Bay/ Whaling Cove
  144. Two Peoples Bay
  145. Cheyne Beach
  146. Cape Riche
  147. Doubtful Island Bay
  148. EAST COAST
  149. Middle Island
  150. Barrier Anchorage
  151. Thomas's Fishery
  152. ADDITIONAL SITES
  153. Colonial Stations
  154. Single–Use sites
  155. Foreign shore stations
  156. Sealers Camps
  157. APPENDIX B: SELECTED HISTORICAL DATA
  158. B.1 Whaling Stations, Owners, Boats & Men in Western Australia (Blue Books, Perth Gazette, Inquirer)
  159. B.2 Number of whaling parties, boats, oil return per boat and number of whalers.
  160. B.3 Summary of Biographical and Ownership Data (After Gibbs 2006 Appendix E).
  161. B.4 Reported Oil and Bone Production (Blue Books)
  162. B.5 Exports of oil and bone, and whale products as a percentage of total Western Australian exports.
  163. B.6 Destinations of Oil and Bone Exports (Blue Books)
  164. B.7 Comparison of oil returns from Cheyne Beach and Castle Rock, 1846-1866 (Blue Books).
  165. B.8 Reported oil yields (tuns) from individual whales [8(2) represents a report of 8 tuns from 2 whales].
  166. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  167. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  168. COPYRIGHT

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