Prehistory of Australia
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John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga take both chronological and regional approaches to describe 40,000 years of Australian Aboriginal cultures, languages, and practices. Discussing longstanding archaeological issues in light of recent discoveries.
Main title:
Prehistory of Australia / by John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga
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Imprint:
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press
Collation:
480 p. illustrations maps
Contents:
The past uncovered and its ownership - The diversity of surviving traces - Dating the past - Changing landscapes - People, language and society - Subsistence and reciprocity - Seafarers to Sahul - Sahul: A Pleistocene continent - The initial colonisation - The original Australians - Pleistocene settlement - Conquest of the deserts - Pleistocene artefacts - Holocene stone tool innovations - Theories and models: Explaining change - People of the coast - Regional challenges and responses - Island settlement - Tasmania - Art on rock - Rock art of temperate Australia - Rock art of tropical Australia - Asian and European newcomers
ISBN:
156098399X (hbk)
Dewey class:
994.004 PRE
Local class:
994.004
Language:
English
BRN:
136918
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