The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. |
Cultural authorities may include | Cultural authority refers to the most appropriate senior person/s that is able to speak for particular Country, cultural objects, ceremony and/or materials in a specific place. A cultural authority could be a Traditional Owner, a Native Title Claimant, Aboriginal Culture and Heritage Body, Elder, Aboriginal Land Council, etc. A ceremonial/cultural manager in terms of Aboriginal customary law means someone who does the work either under the direct supervision of the Aboriginal Owner or does the work that is authorised by the Owner. In a ceremony for example, the ceremonial manager(s) may provide the food and do the performance (work). Traditional roles and responsibilities swap over depending on a person’s status in any given situation – ie – whose land / estate one is on for business. |
Cultural significance may include: | aesthetic, historic, scientific, social or spiritual value for past, present or future generations significance embodied in the place itself, its fabric, setting, use, associations, meanings, records, related places and related objects |
Aboriginal cultural protocols may include: | gender roles in relation to knowledge and cultural practices information sensitivity and access appropriate information transfer negotiations with local Aboriginal Community about information transfer cultural diversity natural resources and their importance for economy, religion, spirituality, art, environment, values, beliefs and lore/law rights and responsibilities associated with cultural knowledge, story, song, Site, and ceremony interpersonal ways of relating the talking of Community politics repatriation of artefacts issues of ownership (clans/nations) ownership of intellectual property acknowledging participation and ownership communicating about cultural material displaying cultural material handling cultural material identifying appropriate people to be consulted occasions when consultation is required ways in which consultations should be conducted |
Aboriginal sites may include: | shelters with deposits open camp site midden shelter with midden shelter with art isolated find undefined sites axe grinding grooves bora/ceremonial ring burial site rock engraving scarred tree carved tree natural mythological site restricted site quarry ochre quarry fish trap stone arrangement mound (oven) mia mia waterhole (well) contact/mission abraded grooves Aboriginal Place (declared under NPW Act) Aboriginal Area (declared under NPW Act) protected archaeological site Conservation agreement massacre reserve |
Aboriginal objects may include: | physical objects such as stone tools, Aboriginal-built fences and stockyards, scarred trees, the remains of fringe camps material deposited on the land, such as middens the ancestral remains of Aboriginal people stones and stone tools art and artworks shells non-human bones and organic materials |
Key stakeholders may include: | Aboriginal Land Councils Indigenous Ranger groups Traditional Owners and Cultural managers Aboriginal communities and Clans museums Culture and Heritage government departments and representatives National Parks personnel sites workers archaeologists anthropologists |
Burra Charter process includes: | the cultural significance of a place and other issues affecting its future are best understood by a sequence of collecting and analysing information before making decisions. Understanding cultural significance comes first, then development of policy and finally management of the place in accordance with the policy the policy for managing a place must be based on an understanding of its cultural significance policy development should also include consideration of other factors affecting the future of a place such as the owner’s needs, resources, external constraints and its physical condition |
Existing industry guidelines may include: | the Draft Guidelines for the Protection, Management and Use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Places |
Site context may include: | landform landform unit vegetation land use proximity to water open closed |
Site information data may include: | general information datum zone date recorded site context Aboriginal features site dimensions site plan story ceremony site Aboriginal Community interpretation site Aboriginal Community recommendations site assessment cultural analysis scientific analysis management recommendations endorsement by cultural authority |
Features data may include: | type material description dimensions context condition site name environment plan importance recommended action |
Field research may include: | field observations and manual recording identification of features assessing condition taking, preserving and examining samples taking photographic records obtaining geographic/longitudinal data mapping of cycles of seasons and species planning information collection to cover specific seasonal impacts recording species, populations, densities and health of the species establishing databases and loading records |
Techniques and tools may include: | traditional Aboriginal knowledge and processes hand tools and power tools excavation and construction equipment surveying and sampling tools recording and reporting technological equipment location and geographic equipment archaeological techniques and equipment |
Archaeological practices may include: | review of existing knowledge survey landscape context Aboriginal land use site definition site recording location information geographic reporting survey analysis test excavation artifact/object recording attribute recording archaeological reporting |
Relevant expertise may include | archaeologists Traditional Owners and/or Elders surveyors anthropologists environmental scientists historians researchers |
Culturally significant places may include | areas of non-Aboriginal activity Aboriginal sites landscapes buildings and other structures natural areas of Aboriginal cultural significance historical events and monuments areas of Aboriginal activity such as: burial occupation and contact sites engravings grinding grooves rock pictures fish traps middens mounds |