Colonial & Modern, Arts, Archaeology, & History
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Regional Variation in the Material Culture of Hunter Gatherers: Social and Ecological Approaches to Ethnographic Objects from Queensland, Australia [Paperback]
Ann Best (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9781841715193
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR Archaeopress
Volume: 1149
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 catego... .... Learn More -
After Captain Cook: The Archaeology of the Recent Indigenous Past in Australia [Hardback]
Rodney Harrison (Author)
£61.00ISBN: 9780759106567
Published by : AltaMira Press
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... .... Learn More -
After Captain Cook: The Archaeology of the Recent Indigenous Past in Australia [Paperback]
Rodney Harrison (Author)
£24.95ISBN: 9780759106574
Published by : AltaMira Press
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... .... Learn More -
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Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming. An Archaeology of Preunderstanding [Hardback]
Bruno David (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9780718502430
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
The Dreaming of the Australian aborigines is a mode of, what philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer terms, preunderstanding 'a historically particular framework of knowledge that guides interpretation and that shapes cultural experience'. This book lo... .... Learn More -
Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records [Paperback]
Val Attenbrow (Author)
£70.50ISBN: 9780868405858
Published by : E.D.S.
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 reco... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of Difference: Negotiating cross-cultural engagements in Oceania [Hardback]
Robin Torrence (Author);Anne Clarke (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9780415117661
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Series: one world archaeology
Volume: 38
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... .... Learn More -
Contemporary Aboriginal Art [Hardback]
Susan McCulloch (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781864486315
Published by : Allen & Unwin
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, w... .... Learn More -
Australasian Historical Arch 16 (1998) [Paperback]
Neville Ritchie (Author)
£8.50Published by : Australasian Society for Historical Arch.
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... .... Learn More -
Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand [Paperback]
Mark Staniforth (Author);Susan Lawrence (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9781875495221
Published by : Australasian Society for Historical Arch.
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. .... Learn More