Description |
xi, 436 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Series |
ERA Collection 2003-2008
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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.
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Deserts -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Deserts -- Africa, Southern.
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Deserts -- Australia.
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Deserts -- Chile -- Congresses.
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Deserts -- Chile.
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Deserts -- South America.
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Environmental archaeology -- Africa, Southern -- Congresses.
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Environmental archaeology -- Africa, Southern.
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Environmental archaeology -- Australia -- Congresses.
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Environmental archaeology -- Australia.
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Environmental archaeology -- Chile -- Congresses.
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Environmental archaeology -- Chile.
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Environmental archaeology -- South America.
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Environmental archaeology.
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Human ecology -- Africa, Southern -- History.
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Human ecology -- Australia -- History.
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Human ecology -- Chile -- History.
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Human ecology -- South America -- History.
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Human ecology.
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SUBJECT |
Kalahari Desert. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071325
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Africa, Southern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001653 -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
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Atacama Desert (Chile) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009058
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Australia -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009577
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South America -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006293
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Hesse, Paul P.
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Smith, Mike, 1955-
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National Museum of Australia.
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World Archaeological Congress (2003 : National Museum of Australia)
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LC no. |
2006372671 |
ISBN |
1876944307 |
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