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Map 19: Schematised Dreaming tracks and diffusion of sections basemap is from

Peterson [I976], proposed culture-areas based on drainage divisions”

Maps 18 and 19 are highly schematised illustrations of the various trading—routes and
Dreaming tracks mentioned in the literature, superimposed on some of the diffusion routes of
sections I have proposed earlier see Maps ll, 12 and 13. While such generalisations always
involve local factual errors and problems, they nevertheless accord well with the general
pictures proposed by others, such as Peterson’s 1976 culture«areas or Sutton’s 1990
“pulsating heart” model. In Peterson’s distribution of global culture areas in accordance
with drainage basins, which is used as the basernap, the Western Desert extends into the
Pilbara towards the Ocean, where, to use Veth’s 1993 expression, the “desert meets the sea”.
The inclusion of the Pilbara area in the Western Desert bloc reflects the cultural connection
between the Nyangurnarta and their eastern neighbours that I mentioned earlier with regard to
the arrival of the Tingarri cycle on the coast and the diflusion of section names into the desert
from this area.

Sutton’s pulsating heart model, in which the very centre of the Western Desert functions
as the centre-point of continent-wide expansion and contraction movements, reflects the
distribution pattern of the alternate generafional levels as illustrated in chapter VII; and the
diffusion of section names in the Western Desert reflects the contracting movements, within
Peterson’s culture-areas, towards the heart of Sutton’s global model of demographic pressures.
The Tingarri cycle reaching the coast, on the other hand, is an example of similar movements
during a period of expansion.
5° Glowczewski’s 1998 map representing the Wati Kutjana track is much more detailed than reproduced here. A

schematised representation of this track has been chosen here to level out with t:he schematised routes of difiusion of
sections.