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Regional Variation in the Material Culture of Hunter Gatherers: Social and Ecological Approaches to Ethnographic Objects from Queensland, Australia
by Anne Best
The region of Queensland is divided into six areas through drainage divisions, something which Anne Best shows to correlate with stylistic differences in objects used by modern hunter-gatherers. This largely unrevised thesis studies six categories of ...
Paperback. Price GB £36.00
Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records
by Val Attenbrow
This work is an insight into Aboriginal life in Sydney before, during and after colonization in 1788, and into the drastic impact of white settlement up to 30 years after colonization. It covers historical, archaeological and environmental records. ...
Paperback. Price GB £70.50
The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating cross-cultural engagements in Oceania
edited by Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke
Deriving originally from a session at the 1992 Australia Archaeology Association conference, the thirteen papers in this book discuss cross-cultural contact in the recent historical past of Oceania - Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and ...
Hardback. Price GB £90.00
Australasian Historical Arch 16 (1998)
edited by Neville Ritchie
Eight papers on aspects of historical archaeology in Australia and New Zealand. Contents: Pattern and purpose in historical archaeology (Graham Connah); The role of material culture in Australasian archaeology (Susan Lawrence); The household in historical ...
Paperback. Price GB £8.50
Contemporary Aboriginal Art
by Susan McCulloch
This superbly illustrated volume guides the reader through the new forms of Aboriginal art that are flourishing in present-day Australia. McCulloch presents the art of the Central and Western Desert, the Kimberley, Arnhem Land and the cities, with colour ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.99
Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand
edited by Susan Lawrence and Mark Staniforth
Fifteen papers divided into regional overviews, case studies and thematic studies of whaling in and around Australia and New Zealand, based on archaeological and historical evidence. 115p, b/w figs (Australian Society for Historical Archaeology and ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.50
Moth Hunters of the Australian Capital Territory
by Josephine Flood
A slim booklet containing a succinct account of Aboriginal traditional life in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria. Written for the general reader but also a useful starting point for those with more specialist interests. ...
Paperback. Price GB £5.00
Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology
by Heather Burke
Subtitled 'Style, social identity, and capitalism in an Australian town' this book focuses on the material culture of Armidale in New South Wales, from 1788 to the present day. The author uses her data to shed light on two particular issues in historical ...
Hardback. Price GB £52.00
Elders: wisdom from Australia's indigenous leaders
by Peter McConchie
125p, 28 col pls. (Cambridge UP 2003)
Paperback. Price GB £14.95
After Captain Cook: Archaeology of Recent
Harrison, Rodney
The study of indigenous archaeology is still in its infancy in many areas of the world although studies such as this are helping to bring it to the forefront of contemporary research agendas. With many of these twelve essays based on papers and discussion ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.95
Hardback. Price GB £61.00
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