Native Archaeology & History
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Melanesia: Art and Encounter [Hardback]
Nicholas Thomas (Author); Elizabeth Bonshek (Author); Julie Adams (Author); Lissant Bolton (Editor); Ben Burt (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9780714125961
Published by : British Museum Press
The British Museums uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the western Pacific. The extraordinary art styles rep... .... Learn More -
Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: An Archaeological Study of the Darwin Region [Paperback]
Patricia Mary Bourke (Author)
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Rock of Ages. South Molle Island Quarry, Whitsunday Islands: Use and Distribution of Stone Through Space and Time [Paperback]
Lara Lamb (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9781407308333
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study provides evidence to suggest that the South Molle Island stone quarry in the Whitsunday Islands, central Queensland coast, has been used by the indigenous inhabitants of the region from at least 9,000 BP to the present. A comprehensi... .... Learn More -
Digging it Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia [Paperback]
Claire Smith (Author);Heather Burke (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9780387757001
Published by : Springer Verlag
This book contains just about everything you might need to know if off to do archaeological work in Oz. It kicks off with a brief history of archaeology in Australia, then looks at Aborignal culture, trade and economics and the differences betw... .... Learn More -
The First Boat People [Hardback]
Stephen Webb (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9780521856560
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The First Boat People concerns how people travelled across the world to Australia in the Pleistocene. It traces movement from Africa to Australia, offering a new view of population growth at that time, challenging current ideas, and underscorin... .... Learn More -
Australia's Eastern Regional Sequence Revisited: Technology and change at Capertee 3 [Paperback]
Peter Hiscock (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781841718361
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This monograph represents a new step in Australian archaeology. It presents a detailed quantitative, technological analysis of flaked stone artefacts, of a kind not published previously in Australia. The detailed nature of the analysis reflects... .... Learn More -
Lithics 'Down Under': Australian Perspectives on Lithic Reduction, Use and Classification [Paperback]
Christopher Clarkson (Author); Lara Lamb (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9781841718514
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This monograph takes a new look at various aspects of stone artifact analysis that reveal important and exciting new information about the past, and in particular Australian perspectives on lithics. The ten papers making up this volume tackle ... .... Learn More -
Palaeo-Environmental Change and the Persistence of Human Occupation in South-Western Australian Forests [Paperback]
Joe Dortch (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781841716381
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This detailed study, based on the analyis of environmental data, cave occupation deposits and stone tools, examines the ways in which hunter-gatherers reacted to environmental change in the forests of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Region in south-wes... .... Learn More -
Explorations of Variability in Australian Prehistoric Rock Engravings [Paperback]
Natalie R. Franklin (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781841713878
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Acknowledging problems inherent in dating Australian rock art, Natalie Franklin approaches a group of engravings known as the `Panaramitee style' in terms of its spatial variation. By assessing the diversity and distribution of this style both ... .... Learn More -
Modelling Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Patterns: An Australian Case Study [Paperback]
Michael Pickering (Author)
£37.00ISBN: 9781841714813
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Until now there has been no detailed study of the settlement and subsistence patterns of the Gawara Aboriginal people of Northern Australia. Rather than being a traditional ethnographic study that presents the results of artefact distributions ... .... Learn More