NOT SUBBED Scar trees shows the occupation of people and the landscape of where people lived and sourced food and resources on Wakka Wakka country in southern Queensland. Tress are scarred for various uses one of the main day to day uses is to carve out items like coolamon, spears, shields and canoes. In some cases a tree might be carved for a burial cylinder_. (Ask Shannon if this is like a coffin?)_ A higher concentration of trees can be found close to waterways and water sources. Scar trees are also used for food gathering — people chase animals, such as a possum into the tree’s scar and smoke them out to catch the animal or the scar may also home a sugarbag or native honey to be used for food or traditional medicine. Scar trees can also act as signpost for directions, mens’ or womens’ sites or to mark a burial ground. Different trees are used for different purposes depending on their attributes like how hard their timber is. One tree favoured in the region for carving out materials is the box gum (Eucalyptus polyanthemos).