The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts
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The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts

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The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures and Tables
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Note on Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates
  6. Chapter 1 The Archaeology of Deserts: Australia in Context
  7. Chapter 2 Deserts Past: A History of Ideas
  8. Chapter 3 The Empty Desert: Inland Environments Prior to People
  9. Chapter 4 Foundations: Moving into the Deserts
  10. Chapter 5 Islands in the Interior: Last Glacial Aridity and Its Aftermath
  11. Chapter 6 The `Desert Culture’ Revisited: Assembling a Cultural System
  12. Chapter 7 Rock Art and Place: Evolution of an Inscribed Landscape
  13. Chapter 8 The Chain of Connection: Trade and Exchange Across the Interior
  14. Chapter 9 The Last Millennium: Archaeology andthe Classic Ethnographies
  15. Glossary of Technical Terms
  16. References
  17. Index