Complex hunter-gatherers : a late Holocene example from temperate Australia / Elizabeth Williams
- Bib ID:
- 2035733
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Williams, Elizabeth
- Description:
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- Oxford, England : B.A.R., 1988
- viii, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0860545458
- Series:
- BAR international series ; 423.
- Summary:
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Analysis of location, function and antiquity of earth mound sites and fish/eel traps in south-west Victoria from historical, ethnographic and archaeological sources; seasonal availability of plant and animal food resources, especially eels, grubs, roots and tubers and small mammals, possums etc.; political and social organisation of Gunditjmara and Tjapwurong; excavations of mound sites and fish traps in Bessiebelle, Caramut and Mount William areas; semi-sedentary lifestyles; use of mound sites as ovens and as camping places and hut foundations in boggy conditions as adaptation to exploitation of wetlands.
- Notes:
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- Edited version of author's thesis (Ph. D.--Australian National University, 1985).
- Bibliography: p. 223-236.
- Subject:
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- Hunting and gathering societies -- Victoria
- Prehistoric peoples -- Victoria
- Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria -- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Victoria
- Gathering - Plants - Roots and tubers
- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons
- Animals - Mammals
- Djabwurrung / Dyabwurung people (S26) (Vic SJ54-08)
- Social organisation
- Plants - Bulbs, tubers etc
- Habitation - Camps - Hearths, ovens, fireplaces etc
- Technology - Stone
- Food
- Food - Seafood - Fish
- Food - Meat - Possum
- Food - Insects - Grubs
- Animals - Fish - Eels
- Gunditjmara / Gurndidy / Dhaurwurd-Wurrung people (S20) (Vic SJ54-11)
- Sites - Excavations
- Fishing - Fish traps
- Victoria -- Antiquities
- Australia -- Antiquities
- Bessiebelle (W Vic SJ54-11)
- Caramut (W Vic SJ54-08)
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