Archaeology of aboriginal Australia : a reader

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Archaeology of aboriginal Australia : a reader

edited by Tim Murray

Allen & Unwin, 1998

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Bibliography: p. 314-350

Includes index

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During the past thirty years the human history of the Australian continent has become the object of intense national and international interest. These years have been the 'decades of discovery', featuring fieldwork and analyses which have rewritten the distant past of Australia almost on a yearly basis. One measure of the international significance of these discoveries is the listing of three great archaeological provinces (Kakadu, Lake Mungo, and South West Tasmania) on the World Heritage Register. The Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia seeks to convey a sense of the excitement and significance of the research undertaken during the 'decades of discovery'. The material presented here--specially commissioned essays and key published articles by new and established scholars--focuses on the themes and issues which continue to attract the most attention among archaeologists: * the antiquity of the human settlement of Australia * patterns of colonisation * the significance of change in Aboriginal society in the late prehistoric period * the usefulness of reconstructions of past ecological systems in understanding the hist

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1 The Changing Contexts of Aboriginal Archaeology - Tim MurrayA: General Surveys2 Antiquity - Jim Allen- "radiocarbon determinations, luminescence dating and Australian archaeology"- "beyond the radiocarbon barrier in Australian prehistory"- "the contamination of Pleistocene radiocarbon determinations in Australia"3 The Pattern of Continental Occupation: late Pleistocene colonisation of Australia and New Guinea - Mike Smith- "when did humans first colonise Australia?"- "new evidence from Fraser Cave for glacial age man in south-west Tasmania"- "Pleistocene dates for the human occupation of New Ireland, northern Melanesia"- "Pleistocene occupation in arid Central Australia"4 The Archaeology of Sahul - Tim Murray- "notions of the Pleistocene in greater Australia"- "the Fifth Continent: problems concerning the human colonisation of Australia"- "biogeography, human ecology and prehistory in the sandridge deserts"5 Late

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