| Description |
xxi, 389 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Sea level changes and land links / J.N. Jennings -- Evidence for late Quaternary climates / R.W. Galloway -- Vegetation, soils, and climate in late Quaternary Southeastern Australia / A.B. Costin -- River systems and climatic changes in southeastern Australia / Simon Pels -- Pleistocene salinities and climate change : evidence from lakes and lunettes in southeastern Australia / J.M. Bowler -- The Australian arid zone as a prehistoric environment / J.A. Mabbutt -- Man, fauna, and climate in Aboriginal Australia / J.H. Calaby -- Cave sediments as palaeoenvironmental indicators, and the sedimentary sequence in Koonalda Cave / R. Frank -- The archaeology of Koonalda Cave / R.V.S. Wright -- Coastal Aborigines of southeastern Australia / R.J. Lampert -- Prehistory in the Cape York Peninsula / R.V.S. Wright -- Man and evnironment in northwest Arnhem Land / Carmel White -- Prehistoric research in Timor / I.C. Glover -- New Guinea and Australian prehistory : the "neolithic problem" / J. Peter White -- Australian Aboriginal food plants : some ecological and culture-historical implications / Jack Golson -- Open sites and the ethnographic approach to the archaeology of hunter-gatherers / Nicolas Peterson -- Habitat and economy : a historical perspective / Roger Lawrence -- Arid region Aborigines : the Pintubi / J.P.M. Long -- The demography of hunters and farmers in Tasmania / Rhys Jones -- Changes in the Aboriginal population of Victoria, 1863-1966 / Diane E. Barwick -- The racial affinities and origins of the Australian Aborigines / A.G. Thorne -- Genetic evidence and its implications for Aboriginal prehistory / R.L. Kirk -- Linguistic evidence and Aboriginal origins / D.T. Tryon -- Art and Aboriginal prehistory / Robert Edwards -- Aboriginal social evolution : a retrospective view / D.J. Mulvaney |
| Summary |
Papers originally presented at A.N.U. Seminars, October - December 1968; includes; 1) Sea level changes and land links - J.N. Jennings, 2) Evidence for late Quaternary climates - R.W. Galloway, 3) Vegetation, soils and climate in late Quaternary southeastern Australia - A.B. Costin, 4) River systems and climatic changes in southeastern Australia - Simon Pels, 5) Pleistocene salinities and climatic change; evidence from lakes and lunettes in southeastern Australia - J.M. Bowler, 6) The Australian arid zone as a prehistoric environment - J.A. Mabbutt, 7) Man, fauna and climate in Aboriginal Australia - J.H. Calaby, 8) Cave sediments as palaeoenvironmental indicators, and the sedimentary sequence in Koonalda Cave - R. Frank, 9) The archaeology of Koonalda Cave - R.V.S. Wright, 10) Coastal Aborigines of southeastern Australia - R.J. Lampert, 11) Prehistory in the Cape York Peninsula - R.V.S. Wright, 12) Man and environment in northwest Arnhem Land - Carmel White, 13) Prehistoric research in Timor - I.C. Glover, 14) New Guinea and Australian prehistory - J.P. White, 15) Australian Aboriginal food plants; some ecological and culture-historical implications - J. Golson, 16) Open sites and the ethnographic approach to the archaeology of hunter-gatherers, 17) Habitat and economy; a historical perspective - R. Lawrence, 18) Arid region Aborigines; the Pintubi - J.P.M. Long, 19) The demography of hunters and farmers in Tasmania - R. Jones, 20) Changes in the Aboriginal population of Victoria, 1863-1966 - Diane E. Barwick, 21) The racial affinities and origins of the Australian Aborigines - A.G. Thorne, 22) Genetic evidence and its implications for Aboriginal prehistory - R.L. Kirk, 23) Linguistic evidence and Aboriginal origins - D.T. Tryon, 24) Art and Aboriginal prehistory - R. Edwards, 25) Aboriginal social evolution; a retrospective view - D.J. Mulvaney |
| Analysis |
Aboriginal Australians |
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Human beings Effect of environment on |
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Aboriginal Australians - Culture |
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Aboriginal Australians - Social life and customs |
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Aboriginal australians |
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Aboriginal australians - culture |
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Aboriginal australians - social life and customs |
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Ethnology |
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Human beings Effect of environment on |
| Notes |
"Papers ... presented originally at seminars at the Australian National University between October and December 1968." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Notes |
Copy 2: Donated by ATSIC Library |
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Copy 3 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection |
| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Civilization.
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Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Influence of environment
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Aboriginal Australians.
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Historic sites -- Australia.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Australia.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Human beings -- Australia -- Influence of environment
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Human beings -- Influence of environment
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia.
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Human geography -- Australia.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Paleoclimatology -- Australia -- Quaternary
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Paleoecology -- Australia -- Quaternary
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Physical geography -- Australia -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009577
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Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Historical geography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006030
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| Author |
Golson, Jack.
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Mulvaney, D. J. (Derek John), 1925-2016.
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Australian National University.
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| LC no. |
75135160 |
| ISBN |
0708104525 |
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