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Archaeology of the dreamtime : the story of prehistoric Australia and its people / Josephine Flood
Bib ID 1711235
Format BookBook
Author
Flood, Josephine
 
Edition Rev. ed. 
Description Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 1999 
328 p. : ill. ; 24cm. 
ISBN 0207197547 (paperback)
Summary

Prehistory of Australia; includes human origins, adaptation to, and modification of, environment; migration, megafauna extinction, subsistence, material culture, art, trade; arrival of dingo; religion; migration to Tasmania; isolation of Tasmania; this revised edition has been updated with information on the latest archaeological discoveries including new dates for Mungo Man, Jinmium and rock art in the Kimberley.

Notes

Includes index.

Previous ed. : Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1995.

Bibliography: p. [316]-318.

Subjects Prehistoric peoples -- Australia.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.  |  Animals - Mammals - Marsupial megafauna.  |  Sites - Excavations.  |  Art - Rock art.  |  Human biology - Physical anthropology - Human evolution.  |  Demography - Palaeodemography - Aboriginal settlement of Australia.  |  Technology - Stone.  |  Hunting, gathering and fishing.  |  Dating and chronology.  |  Australia -- Antiquities.  |  Tasmania (Tas)  |  Australia.  |  Kangaroo Island (SE SA SI53-16)

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