Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia: A Reader

Title page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Figures and tables......Page 8
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 The changing contexts of the archaeology of Aboriginal Australia......Page 14
Part I General Surveys......Page 20
2 Antiquity......Page 22
2a Radiocarbon determinations, luminescence dating and Australian archaeology......Page 26
2b Beyond the radiocarbon barrier in Australian prehistory......Page 32
2c The contamination of Pleistocene radiocarbon determinations in Australia......Page 39
3 The pattern of continental occupation: late Pleistocene colonisation of Australia and New Guinea......Page 54
3a When did humans first colonise Australia?......Page 63
3b New evidence from Fraser Cave for glacial age man in southwest Tasmania......Page 74
3c Pleistocene dates for the human occupation of New Ireland, northern Melanesia......Page 84
3d Pleistocene occupation in arid Central Australia......Page 90
4 The archaeology of Sahul......Page 95
4a Notions of the Pleistocene in Greater Australia......Page 99
4b The fifth continent: problems concerning the human colonisation of Australia......Page 115
4c Biogeography, human ecology and prehistory in the sandridge deserts......Page 132
5 Late Holocene Australia and the writing of Aboriginal history......Page 154
5a Holocene environments and prehistoric site patterning in the Victorian Mallee......Page 162
5b Perspectives on 'trends toward social complexity in prehistoric Australia and Papua New Guinea'......Page 181
5c The cemetery as symbol: the distribution of prehistoric Aboriginal burial grounds in southeastern Australia......Page 195
5d The childhood of William Lanne: contact archaeology and Aboriginality in Tasmania......Page 224
Part II Special Studies......Page 242
6 Change and variation in human ecology......Page 244
6a Palaeoecology and Pleistocene human occupation in south central Tasmania......Page 248
7 Revitalising artefact analysis......Page 270
7a Stone tool functions in the Western Desert......Page 279
8 The archaeology of rock art in Australia......Page 298
8a Of lightning brothers and white cockatoos: dating the antiquity of signifying systems in the Nothern Territory, Australia......Page 303
9 A reader's guide......Page 318
Notes......Page 324
Bibliography......Page 327
Index......Page 364