Within the Coomera region there have been multiple sites identified as having cultural significance. Two of these sites, the Oaky Creek Ridge artefact scatter and the Coomera State High school knapping floor, have been linked together through the presence of a unique material that has been identified at both sites. The Oaky Creek Ridge artefact…
Tag: Aboriginal Artefacts
Knapping floor in Coomera on Foxwell Road
The Department of Education is building a new high school on Foxwell Rd Coomera. Jabree Ltd conducted a staged cultural heritage assessment of the project site in 2018 and 2019. This site contains two lots, each was excavated separately but are two parts of the same whole. Lot 5 was the first of the two…
Unique Cultural Heritage at Yarrabilba
The Yarrabilba area forms part of the broader cultural landscape of the Albert River catchment and Mt Tamborine area, an area which also contains archaeological and cultural sites including Bora Grounds that continue to be of high significance to Aboriginal people living in the region
Jabree completes Yarrabilba Cultural Heritage Assessment
This assessment is the final to be undertaken by Jabree as part of a staged assessment program that commenced in August 2011.
Jabree has say on Queensland’s Cultural Heritage Duty of Care Guidelines
Jabree has prepared a submission to the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships (DATSIP), on behalf of the Gold Coast Native Title Group, to inform its review of Queensland’s Cultural Heritage Duty of Care Guideline
Shell middens protected on South Stradbroke Island
Recognition, protection and conservation of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
Ormeau Quarry reveals history from 1670
Ormeau Quarry Expansion, Boral Resources Qld The Ormeau Quarry expansion project required a survey which was in November 2013. Test pits and shovel probes found 115 stone artefacts including a charcoal sample located at the same depth as the stone artefacts. Radiocarbon dating of the charcoal sample gave a date for site occupation of approximately…
Our heritage on display at Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
The Gold Coast Aquatic Centre at Southport has been redeveloped as a world class swimming and diving competition facility for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In May 2013, Jabree conducted a cultural heritage survey of the redevelopment site which involved 13 test pits and the use of a hand auger to drill into the subsurface layer and identify the…
Stone artefacts found, Mount Tamborine
In May 2012 fieldwork was undertaken at the Tamborine Village Roundabout which is approximately 2.5km southwest of the bora ground at Waldron Road, Tamborine. While much of the site had been disturbed by road works, 11 stone artefacts were found including silcrete flakes and cores. In one pit a charcoal sample was found at the…
Rare knapping, camping and ceremonial sites identified, Stockland Coomera
Between 2004 and 2005, Jabree provided a staged cultural heritage assessment of the Stockland project area in Coomera, which identified 20 significant sites that uncovered a total of 503 stone artefacts, 3 species of shell, charcoal, small animal bones and ochre. One site was assessed as a knapping site (stone tools were created at this location), containing some…
