Aboriginal man and environment in Australia. Editors: D. J. Mulvaney and J. Golson
- Bib ID:
- 2687156
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1971
- xxi, 389 p. illus., maps. 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0708104525
- Summary:
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Papers originally presented at A.N.U. Seminars, October - December 1968; includes; 1) Sea level changes and land links - J.N. Jennings, 2) Evidence for late Quaternary climates - R.W. Galloway, 3) Vegetation, soils and climate in late Quaternary southeastern Australia - A.B. Costin, 4) River systems and climatic changes in southeastern Australia - Simon Pels, 5) Pleistocene salinities and climatic change; evidence from lakes and lunettes in southeastern Australia - J.M. Bowler, 6) The Australian arid zone as a prehistoric environment - J.A. Mabbutt, 7) Man, fauna and climate in Aboriginal Australia - J.H. Calaby, 8) Cave sediments as palaeoenvironmental indicators, and the sedimentary sequence in Koonalda Cave - R. Frank, 9) The archaeology of Koonalda Cave - R.V.S. Wright, 10) Coastal Aborigines of southeastern Australia - R.J. Lampert, 11) Prehistory in the Cape York Peninsula - R.V.S. Wright, 12) Man and environment in northwest Arnhem Land - Carmel White, 13) Prehistoric research in Timor - I.C. Glover, 14) New Guinea and Australian prehistory - J.P. White, 15) Australian Aboriginal food plants; some ecological and culture-historical implications - J. Golson, 16) Open sites and the ethnographic approach to the archaeology of hunter-gatherers, 17) Habitat and economy; a historical perspective - R. Lawrence, 18) Arid region Aborigines; the Pintubi - J.P.M. Long, 19) The demography of hunters and farmers in Tasmania - R. Jones, 20) Changes in the Aboriginal population of Victoria, 1863-1966 - Diane E. Barwick, 21) The racial affinities and origins of the Australian Aborigines - A.G. Thorne, 22) Genetic evidence and its implications for Aboriginal prehistory - R.L. Kirk, 23) Linguistic evidence and Aboriginal origins - D.T. Tryon, 24) Art and Aboriginal prehistory - R. Edwards, 25) Aboriginal social evolution; a retrospective view - D.J. Mulvaney.
- Notes:
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- "Papers ... presented originally at seminars at the Australian National University between October and December 1968."
- Includes bibliographies.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Language - Linguistics
- Demography - Palaeodemography
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Technology - Tools
- Food - Preparation - Cooking - Plants
- Human biology - Genetics
- Art - Rock engraving
- Human biology - Physical anthropology - Human evolution
- Environment - Climate and weather - Climate change
- Sites - Middens
- Plants
- Animals
- Gathering - Plants
- Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Pintupi language (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Victoria (Vic)
- Papua New Guinea (PNG)
- Arnhem Land (NT)
- Koonalda Cave (Far West SA Nullarbor SH52-15)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Laura / Quinkan area (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- Kenniff Cave (Carnarvon Range SW Qld SG55-07)
- Weipa / Napranum (Qld Gulf, NW Cape York SD54-03)
- Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51, SE52)
- Weipa / Napranum (Qld NW Cape York SD54-03)
- Kow Swamp (N Vic SI55-13)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Goulburn Valley (N Vic SJ55-01)
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