Revealing the past : archaeology in Australia / Sandra Bowdler ; illustrated by Dorothy Dunphy and Peter Murray
- Bib ID:
- 2873094
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bowdler, Sandra
- Description:
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- North Ryde, N.S.W. : Methuen Australia, 1985
- 32 p. : col. ill., maps ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0454008465
- Series:
- Amazing Australia.
- Summary:
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Introductory text; purpose of prehistory in Australia, what archaeologists do, dating, analysing finds; summary of findings from the most ancient sites including cave sites; briefly discusses stone tools, human remains, relationship between Tasmania and mainland, prehistoric lifestyles, foods, rock art, contact with Macassans, Europeans, site protection.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Col. ill. on lining papers.
- For secondary school students.
- Cited In:
- White, K. Bibliography of Australian children's books, v. 2, no. 205
- Subject:
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- Archaeology -- Australia -- Methodology -- Juvenile literature
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Juvenile literature
- Sites - Conservation and protection
- Food
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Art - Subjects - Contact
- Sites - Macassan sites
- Art - Rock art - Dating and attribution
- Art - Rock art - Engraving
- Death - Human remains
- Technology - Stone
- Australia -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1985
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