Technologies, indigenous Cultural Heritage and community capacity building

Abstract

The uptake of spatial mapping technologies and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) by Indigenous communities in Victoria, Australia is hindered by limited resources. Cultural Heritage Management (CHM) projects that employ these technologies offer practical community capacity building strategies to re-engage people in formal education and protect heritage. Wadawurrung cultural heritage officers use a cultural heritage management system with a field mapping application that enables cultural heritage sites to be recorded (including highly accurate GPS). GPR is a vital complementary technology to spatial mapping technologies in the field of Indigenous cultural heritage but access to GPR has been limited.