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The archaeology of Australia's deserts /
"This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere. Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental and archaeological data about this fascinating regio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge world archaeology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere. Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental and archaeological data about this fascinating region has become available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts explores the late Pleistocene settlement of Australia's deserts, the formation of distinctive desert societies, and the origins and development of the hunter-gatherer societies documented in the classic nineteenth-century ethnographies of Spencer and Gillen. Written by one of Australia's leading desert archaeologists, the book interweaves a lively history of research with archaeological data in a masterly survey of the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that forces archaeology into conversations with history and anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and earth sciences"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxv, 406 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-390) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107308305 1107308305 1107306108 9781107306103 9781107313859 1107313856 9781139023016 1139023012 9781299008892 1299008895 1107301025 9781107301023 1107305381 9781107305380 1107311659 9781107311657 |