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Author 23 S : Archaeology and Environmental History of the Southern Deserts (2005 : Canberra, A.C.T.)

Title 23⁰S : archaeology and environmental history of the southern deserts / edited by Mike Smith and Paul Hesse
Published Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2005

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Description xi, 436 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Series ERA Collection 2003-2008
Contents Capricorn's deserts -- Late quaternary environmental history of the southern deserts -- Late quaternary environmental change in the Kalahari -- Environmental history of the Namib Desert -- The beating heart: environmental history of Australia's deserts -- Late quaternary history of the Atacama Desert -- Moving into the southern deserts: an archaeology of dispersal and colonisation -- Archaeology and changing environments in the Kalahari: the Tsodilo Hills region -- The late Holocene human ecology of the Namib Desert -- Between the desert and the sea: archaeologies of the Western Desert and Pilbara regions, Australia -- Diverse histories: identifying late Pleistocene aboriginal settlement in the Lake Eyre Basin and the eastern aris zone -- Cultiral response to climate change in the Atacama Desert -- Hunter-gatherers on the coast and hinterland of the Atacama Desert -- Pintoscayoc and the archaeology of the arid Humahuaca Rift Vallry, north-western Argentina -- The rock art of Africa's southern deserts -- Rockart of the Red Centre -- Five thousand years of rock art in the Atacama Desert: long-term environmental constraints and symbolic devices -- The archaeology of hunter-herder interaction in the drylands of southern Africa -- Historical interactions between Aborigines and European pastoralists in Australia's drylands -- Living with llamas at 23⁰S -- The archaeology of historical contact and trade on the namib Desert coast -- A water history of the western Simpson Desert, Australia -- The expansion of the Inka empire into the Atacama Desert -- Landscaping history: nitrate mining in the Atacama Desert in the twentieth century -- 'Because it is our country': the Pintupi and their return to their country, 1970-1990
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 358-409
Subject Deserts -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses.
Deserts -- Australia -- Congresses.
Deserts -- Africa, Southern.
Deserts -- Australia.
Deserts -- Chile -- Congresses.
Deserts -- Chile.
Deserts -- South America.
Environmental archaeology -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses.
Environmental archaeology -- Africa, Southern.
Environmental archaeology -- Australia -- Congresses.
Environmental archaeology -- Australia.
Environmental archaeology -- Chile -- Congresses.
Environmental archaeology -- Chile.
Environmental archaeology -- South America.
Environmental archaeology.
Human ecology -- Africa, Southern -- History.
Human ecology -- Australia -- History.
Human ecology -- Chile -- History.
Human ecology -- South America -- History.
Human ecology.
SUBJECT Kalahari Desert. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071325
Africa, Southern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001653 -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
Atacama Desert (Chile) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009058
Australia -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009577
South America -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006293
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Hesse, Paul P.
Smith, Mike, 1955-
National Museum of Australia.
World Archaeological Congress (2003 : National Museum of Australia)
LC no. 2006372671
ISBN 1876944307
Other Titles 23 degrees south
Archaeology and environmental history of the southern deserts
Rock art of the Red Centre