Cargando…
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 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
|
| Colección: | Cambridge world archaeology.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates; Chapter 1 The Archaeology of Deserts: Australia in Context; Positioning This Research; Australia's Deserts; The Ecological Background; The Deserts People; Human Ecology; The Archaeology of Deserts; The Politics of Practice; Chapter 2 Deserts Past: A History of Ideas; The Dead Heart of Australia; Desert Societies; Ancient Petroglyphs; The `Great Australian Arid Period'; Shifts in Climatic Belts; Culture Histories; Physical Anthropology; Stone Tools; Historical Linguistics.
- The Australian Desert CultureLake Mungo and the Willandra Lakes; Initial Colonisation of the Desert; Beyond the Willandra; Desert Refugia; Islands in the Interior; `The Australian Aboriginal as an Ecological Agent'; A Land Transformed?; Landesque Capital; Social Intensification; Writing the History of the Desert; Chapter 3 The Empty Desert: Inland Environments Prior to People; The `Desert Transformation' Concept; Age and Origin of Australias Deserts; The Last Interglacial in Australian Deserts; Quaternary Context; Lakes and Saltlakes; Lake Eyre: `A Continental Rain Gauge'; Other Inland Lakes.
- The Arid RiversDesert Dunes and Dust; Inland Vegetation during the Last Interglacial; Last of the Dryland Megafauna; The Katapiri Fauna; Lake Callabonna; Population Ecology; Collapse of the Katapiri Fauna; Genyornis; Overview: The Desert Prior to People; Interglacial Landscapes; The Landscapes of Colonisation; Chapter 4 Foundations: Moving into the Deserts; The Continental Setting; A Modicum of Ideas; Invasion Biology; Geographic Background to Colonisation of the Desert; Routes; Early Sites: Chronology and Distribution; Northern Desert Fringe; The Willandra Lakes and Lower Darling River.
- Cuddie SpringsThe Arid West Coast; Pilbara; Nullarbor Plain; Central Australia; Western Desert; Desert People; WLH1 (Mungo 1); WLH3 (Mungo 3); Assemblages and Site Inventories; Subsistence and Economy; Ecological Impacts; Discussion: Moving into the Deserts; A Global Perspective; Dispersal and Colonisation; Desert Societies 45-30 Ka; Chapter 5 Islands in the Interior: Last Glacial Aridity and Its Aftermath; Ideas about Refugia: Archaeological Frameworks; The Contraction of Settlement; Life in Glacial Refugia; Reoccupation of Desert Lowlands; Where Are the Refugia? Biogeographic Perspectives.
- Inland Environments during the Last Glacial MaximumThe Impact on Australian Drylands; Implications for Human Ecology in the Interior; The Archaeological Record 30-12 Ka; Interpreting Site Histories and Stratigraphy; The Desert Uplands; Central Australia; The Inland Pilbara; Other Desert Uplands; The Arid Core; The Lake Eyre Basin; The Problem of the Sandy Deserts; The Shifting Margins; The Carpentarian Gorge Systems; The Arid West Coast; The Nullarbor; The Darling River and Willandra Lakes; Discussion: The Last Glacial Maximum Revisited.
- Chapter 6 The `Desert Culture' Revisited: Assembling a Cultural System.