Author : Steve Brown
Publisher :
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780731501090
Includes test-pit excavations at Packsaddle Ridge; C-14 dated hearth; stone artefact sequence included re-analysis of Newman Orebody XXIX and Newman rockshelters finds; flakes, cores, microliths, adzes; settlement patterns inferred from ethnographic and archaeological evidence.
Author : Jo McDonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1118253922
This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock art sites around the world Examines key work of noted authorities (e.g. Lewis-Williams, Conkey, Whitley and Clottes), and outlines new directions for rock art research Is broadly international in scope, identifying rock art from North and South America, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, India, Siberia and Europe Represents new approaches in the archaeological study of rock art, exploring issues that include gender, shamanism, landscape, identity, indigeneity, heritage and tourism, as well as technological and methodological advances in rock art analyses
Author : Dawn Cropper
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784919772
This volume offers a detailed study of six exceptional rockshelter sites from the inland Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Consisting of 18 chapters, it is rich with colour photographs, illustrations, and figures, including high-resolution images of the rockshelter sites, excavations, stratigraphic sections, cultural features, and artefacts.
Author : Ian Lilley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 140515229X
This book is a state-of-the-art introduction to the archaeology of Oceania, covering both Australia and the Pacific Islands. The first text to provide integrated treatment of the archaeologies of Australia and the Pacific Islands Enables readers to form a coherent overview of cultural developments across the region as a whole Brings together contributions from some of the region’s leading scholars Focuses on new discoveries, conceptual innovations, and postcolonial realpolitik Challenges conventional thinking on major regional and global issues in archaeology
Author : Ken Mulvaney
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781742586007
"This monograph presents a model of the artistic traditions and associated petroglyph production, suggesting five major phases for the Dampier Archipelago, and providing insights into a world that existed for Indigenous Australians over many thousands of years.".
Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1361 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199551227
This book provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies, undertaking detailed regional and thematic case-studies that span the archaeology, history and anthropology of hunter gatherers, concluding with an in-depth review of the main opportunities, research questions, and moral obligations that lie ahead.
Author : Robin Dennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107017858
This volume summarizes what is - and is not - known about the earliest evidence of our species outside Africa, from Arabia to Australia. Most books on the origins of "modern human behavior" and the expansion of our species across the world focus on evidence from Africa, Europe, and the Levant, which have been extensively researched. This book focuses instead on the important areas of southern Asia such as Arabia and India, as well as evidence from Australia, which deserve far wider attention than they have hereto received.
Author : Caroline Bird
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1743326173
Based on ten years of surveys and excavations in Nyiyaparli country in the eastern Chichester Ranges, north-west Australia, Crafting Country provides a unique synthesis of Holocene archaeology in the Pilbara region. The analysis of about 1000 sites, including surface artefact scatters and 19 excavated rock shelters, as well as thousands of isolated artefacts, takes a broad view of the landscape, examining the distribution of archaeological remains in time and space. Heritage compliance archaeology commonly focuses on individual sites, but this study reconsiders the evidence at different scales – at the level of artefact, site, locality, and region – to show how Aboriginal people interacted with the land and made their mark on it. Crafting Country shows that the Nyiyaparli ‘crafted’ their country, building structures and supplying key sites with grindstones, raw material and flaked stone cores. In so doing, they created a taskscape of interwoven activities linked by paths of movement.
Author : Harry Lourandos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521359467
This book challenges traditional perceptions of Australian Aboriginal prehistory: that the environment is the major determinant of hunter-gatherers; that Aborigines were egalitarian and culturally homogeneous and therefore experienced few economic and demographic changes. Harry Lourandos argues that the social and economic processes of hunter-gatherers were complex and that the prehistoric period was dynamic and revolutionary. Lourandos presents prehistoric data, reviews archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence, and analyses environmental, demographic and socially-oriented perspectives - drawing from them an original hypothesis. He addresses initial colonisation, the role of Tasmanian Aborigines, the role of fire, faunal extinctions, the intensification debate, horticultural origins, plant exploitation, and the significance of Australian prehistory in the study of other prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
