U TRANSFORMED LANDSCAPES also uses the study of energy flow through ecosystems as the currency by... more U TRANSFORMED LANDSCAPES also uses the study of energy flow through ecosystems as the currency by which those impacts are measured. Goudie (1993) recognizes similar stages of cultural development, although he subsumes them within chapters structured by ...
Introduction Since the period of Aboriginal occupation of this continent has coincided with drama... more Introduction Since the period of Aboriginal occupation of this continent has coincided with dramatic changes in climate and landscape, it is not sur-prising that recent debate has focused attention on situations of prehistoric environmental change where the human hand may be in- ...
The nature and date of the human colonization of Australia remains a key issue in prehistory at t... more The nature and date of the human colonization of Australia remains a key issue in prehistory at the world scale, for a sufficiently early presence there indicates either Homo sapiens sapiens arriving precociously in a place remote from a supposed African origin, or a greater competence in sea-crossing than has been expected of archaic humans. Stratigraphic integrity, the new science of luminescent dating and the recognition of worked stone and of rock-engraving are immediate issues in this report from far northwestern Australia.
Fire is integral to two distinct yet related types of hunter-gatherer social landscape - those pe... more Fire is integral to two distinct yet related types of hunter-gatherer social landscape - those perceived and those physically trans-formed by human action. The relationships between the two are explored here, first in the ethnographic fire record for northern Australia. Results of a case study of ...
~h~ age of the tephras and the artefacts is hewn but Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, GPO B... more ~h~ age of the tephras and the artefacts is hewn but Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, GPO Box 1890, is predicted to be at least late Pleistocene because the soils Da"uin, NT 0801y and tephras, the volcanic rocks, and the obsidian artefacts ... The aim of current research in ...
... K., Roberts, F. and Smith, JD 1993 Late Holocene human impact on two ... Haynes, MG Ridpath a... more ... K., Roberts, F. and Smith, JD 1993 Late Holocene human impact on two ... Haynes, MG Ridpath and MAJ Williams (eds) M onsoonal Australia: Landscape, Ecology and ... Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. ...
The spatial and temporal distribution of 145 radiocarbon dates on 66 Australian stick-nest rat mi... more The spatial and temporal distribution of 145 radiocarbon dates on 66 Australian stick-nest rat middens (Muridae: Leporillusspp.) range from modern to 10,900 ± 90 BP. As in American packrat middens, age frequency follows a logarithmic decay, both continentally and at major sites. This is probably a result of natural decay processes. Unlike American middens of similar age, relatively few range changes in plant distribution have been detected in Australia. The distribution of14C ages and the associated midden materials provide important paleoenvironmental information from the arid interior of Australia. The middens record subtle changes in vegetation and dramatic changes in the fauna unlike those interpreted from sites on the coastal rim or the southeastern periphery of the arid zone.
U TRANSFORMED LANDSCAPES also uses the study of energy flow through ecosystems as the currency by... more U TRANSFORMED LANDSCAPES also uses the study of energy flow through ecosystems as the currency by which those impacts are measured. Goudie (1993) recognizes similar stages of cultural development, although he subsumes them within chapters structured by ...
Introduction Since the period of Aboriginal occupation of this continent has coincided with drama... more Introduction Since the period of Aboriginal occupation of this continent has coincided with dramatic changes in climate and landscape, it is not sur-prising that recent debate has focused attention on situations of prehistoric environmental change where the human hand may be in- ...
The nature and date of the human colonization of Australia remains a key issue in prehistory at t... more The nature and date of the human colonization of Australia remains a key issue in prehistory at the world scale, for a sufficiently early presence there indicates either Homo sapiens sapiens arriving precociously in a place remote from a supposed African origin, or a greater competence in sea-crossing than has been expected of archaic humans. Stratigraphic integrity, the new science of luminescent dating and the recognition of worked stone and of rock-engraving are immediate issues in this report from far northwestern Australia.
Fire is integral to two distinct yet related types of hunter-gatherer social landscape - those pe... more Fire is integral to two distinct yet related types of hunter-gatherer social landscape - those perceived and those physically trans-formed by human action. The relationships between the two are explored here, first in the ethnographic fire record for northern Australia. Results of a case study of ...
~h~ age of the tephras and the artefacts is hewn but Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, GPO B... more ~h~ age of the tephras and the artefacts is hewn but Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, GPO Box 1890, is predicted to be at least late Pleistocene because the soils Da"uin, NT 0801y and tephras, the volcanic rocks, and the obsidian artefacts ... The aim of current research in ...
... K., Roberts, F. and Smith, JD 1993 Late Holocene human impact on two ... Haynes, MG Ridpath a... more ... K., Roberts, F. and Smith, JD 1993 Late Holocene human impact on two ... Haynes, MG Ridpath and MAJ Williams (eds) M onsoonal Australia: Landscape, Ecology and ... Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University. ...
The spatial and temporal distribution of 145 radiocarbon dates on 66 Australian stick-nest rat mi... more The spatial and temporal distribution of 145 radiocarbon dates on 66 Australian stick-nest rat middens (Muridae: Leporillusspp.) range from modern to 10,900 ± 90 BP. As in American packrat middens, age frequency follows a logarithmic decay, both continentally and at major sites. This is probably a result of natural decay processes. Unlike American middens of similar age, relatively few range changes in plant distribution have been detected in Australia. The distribution of14C ages and the associated midden materials provide important paleoenvironmental information from the arid interior of Australia. The middens record subtle changes in vegetation and dramatic changes in the fauna unlike those interpreted from sites on the coastal rim or the southeastern periphery of the arid zone.
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