Abstract
By the 1860s the southwest of Western Australia had developed a pastoral dominant agricultural system which had spread across the southwest from Geraldton almost to Esperance. Colonization then jumped over 1,200 km up the coast to a completely new environment in the northwest, one of semidesert and desert conditions, cyclones, monsoonal tropics, and mangrove mud flats with huge tidal ranges. This chapter introduces the northwest, in particular its geography and history and provides a general framework within which to delineate the geographical spread of colonization within the area and to illustrate the very different environmental conditions faced. It also examines the prior knowledge and expectations of the new colonists and the initial land use and social system they tried to install in the northwest.
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Nayton, G. (2011). The North District: Settlement of the Northwest. In: The Archaeology of Market Capitalism. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8318-3_4
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