Cultural Heritage Chapter 17.0 Environmental Impact Statement TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................... 1 CULTURAL HERITAGE ............................................................................................................................ 4 17.1 Aboriginal Cultural Heritage.......................................................................................................... 4 17.1.1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................... 4 17.1.2 Statutory framework............................................................................................................. 5 17.1.3 Surveys ................................................................................................................................. 7 17.1.4 Findings of surveys...............................................................................................................13 17.1.5 Recommendations, Mitigation and Management ................................................................32 17.2 Non-indigenous cultural heritage.................................................................................................38 17.2.1 Introduction.........................................................................................................................38 17.2.2 Statutory framework............................................................................................................39 17.2.3 Methodology .......................................................................................................................41 17.2.4 Nature of Cultural Heritage ..................................................................................................41 17.2.5 Historical context .................................................................................................................42 17.2.6 The Barnwell property .........................................................................................................64 17.2.7 Community engagement......................................................................................................71 17.2.8 Surveys ................................................................................................................................72 17.2.9 Results of heritage investigation ..........................................................................................73 17.2.10 Potential impacts and mitigation ......................................................................................74 17.2.11 Conclusions ......................................................................................................................78 17.2.12 References .......................................................................................................................79 TABLE OF TABLES Table 17-1: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage legislation relevant to the KUR-World project. ............................ 5 Table 17-2: Activities conducted during site inspections. ............................................................................ 8 Table 17-3: Summary of post-contact Aboriginal use of the Kuranda/Myola area .....................................11 Table 17-4: Important plant species noted during site inspection ..............................................................27 Table 17-5: Markers of environmental health noted during site visits and interviews...............................27 Table 17-6 Conversion imperial to metric system ......................................................................................39 Table 17-7: Currency conversions...............................................................................................................39 Table 17-8: Potential Heritage Sites inside the Study Area identified through contextual history, community consultation and field surveys. ............................................................................73 KUR-World Environmental Impact Statement Cultural Heritage - Page 1 TABLE OF FIGURES Figure 17-1: Sites recorded during surveys................................................................................................. 16 Figure 17-2: Nut cracking rock, KUR 1 ........................................................................................................ 17 Figure 17-3: Axe blank, note start of ‘waist’ on bottom edge, KUR 2. ........................................................ 18 Figure 17-4: Removing nut cracking rock from dirt road, KUR 3. ................................................................ 19 Figure 17-5: Quartz flakes, KUR 3. .............................................................................................................. 19 Figure 17-6: Pink flagging tape in foreground marks artefacts, KUR 4,5. .................................................... 20 Figure 17-7: Top stone or pestle. Note flattened end used for pounding, KUR 4,5..................................... 21 Figure 17-8: Portable nut-cracking rock, KUR 4,5. ...................................................................................... 21 Figure 17-9: Nut processing site on Haren Creek, over 30 nut cracking holes were counted. ..................... 21 Figure 17-10: Inspecting nut cracking rocks................................................................................................ 22 Figure 17-11: Nut cracking rock on Owen Creek, KUR 7. ............................................................................ 22 Figure 17-12: Owen Creek, KUR 8............................................................................................................... 22 Figure 17-13: Nut cracking rock, KUR 8. ..................................................................................................... 23 Figure 17-14: Nut processing site at Owen Creek. ...................................................................................... 24 Figure 17-15: Black pine nuts in nut cracking holes. ................................................................................... 25 Figure 17-16: Glen (Mario) Williams with Black pine (Podocarpus spp). .................................................... 25 Figure 17-17: Overview, KUR 10. ................................................................................................................ 26 Figure 17-18: Sites observed in the survey overlain on 1942 aerial photograph. The known camp (yellow) is the pocket identified in FN-0001 at the current veterinarian property. KUR 4,5 (red) may represent a second pocket .....................................................................................................31 Figure 17-19: Location of KUR-World recorded sites and low medium and high priority areas- Regional Context. ..................................................................................................................................34 Figure 17-20: Location of KUR-World recorded sites and low medium and high priority areas- Development Context. ...........................................................................................................35 Figure 17-21: (Map 3) Detail of potential camp ground. ............................................................................ 36 Figure 17-22 John Atherton's Emerald End Homestead (JOL: 245443.) ...................................................... 44 Figure 17-23: Workers laying sleepers and lines during construction of Cairns to Myola railway, c. 1890 (JOL: 22620). ........................................................................................................................... 45 Figure 17-24: Green tobacco leaf in Piagno’s curing barn, Mutchilba, c. 1948. National Library of Australia: 148905743. ............................................................................................................................. 48 Figure 17-25: Early photo of Kuranda taken from Street's Lookout on the northern side of the Barron River, JOL: 245619. .................................................................................................................50 Figure 17-26: Tourists at Stony Creek Falls, 1939, CHS: P11974.................................................................. 52 Figure 17-27: The Kuranda Markets, 1978. Hudson, 2003. ......................................................................... 55 Figure 17-28: Site of Myola Railway Station, Hudson 2003. ....................................................................... 57 KUR-World Environmental Impact Statement Cultural Heritage - Page 2 Figure 17-29: Hauling timber across the Barron River, Myola c 1912, QSA: LAN/AZ262. ........................... 59 Figure 17-30: Mayer's Glencairn Coffee Plantation, c. 1900. State Library of Victoria: H2014.1013155. .... 61 Figure 17-31: Workers, including South Sea Islanders, on coffee plantation, Kuranda, c. 1900. JOL: 129808. ............................................................................................................................................... 62 Figure 17-32: Site map showing approximate location of boundaries of original agricultural selections, 1890s. .....................................................................................................................................65 Figure 17-33: Coffee Pulping Machine. North Queensland Register, 1899. ...............................................