Cultural heritage site locations
Key Finding
Artefact scatters are the most prevalent type of site location recorded on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage database.
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Queensland
As at March 2020, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage database recorded 52,806 site locations in Queensland. The database is an information tool established under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage legislation to help assess the cultural heritage values of an area.
Since July 2015, 9,163 new locations have been recorded on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage database.
About 56% of new locations in Queensland include stone artefact scatters. These range from small scatters of a few stone flakes through to extensive scatters containing many different artefact types.
The next highest site type category is scarred trees (about 9.5% of new locations). Scarred trees are trees that have been scarred by cultural activities.
Many sites on the database contain more than 1 attribute. For example, an art site may also contain an artefact scatter and be an important story place as well.
As there are no legislative requirements to report cultural heritage site locations, the total number of new locations recorded on the database does not represent the total number of new cultural heritage site locations recorded in Queensland.
Due to internal adjustments in regional boundaries since 2015, the total number of sites added for each region are not reported.
North
At 31 March 2020, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage database held 22,627 site locations for the North Cultural Heritage Region.
The database is an information tool established under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage legislation to help assess the cultural heritage values of an area.
As there are no legislative requirements to report cultural heritage site locations, the total number of locations recorded on the database does not represent the total number of cultural heritage site locations recorded in the region.
Central
At 31 March 2020, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage database held 10,996 site locations for Central Cultural Heritage region.
The database is an information tool established under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage legislation to help assess the cultural heritage values of an area.
As there are no legislative requirements to report cultural heritage site locations, the total number of locations recorded on the database does not represent the total number of cultural heritage site locations recorded in the region.
South
At 31 March 2020, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage database held 19,183 site locations for South Cultural Heritage Region.
The database is an information tool established under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage legislation to help assess the cultural heritage values of an area.
As there are no legislative requirements to report cultural heritage site locations, the total number of locations recorded on the database does not represent the total number of cultural heritage site locations recorded in the region.
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Metadata
Change in number of locations recorded on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage database by Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships regions for 2017–2019 financial years. Data is current as at 31 March 2020.