The archaeology of Australia's deserts

1. Verfasser: Smith, Mike, 1955- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Umfang/Format: xxv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Cambridge world archaeology
Schlagworte:
Siedlungsarchäologie
Geschichte
Humanökologie
Archäologie
Wüste
Deserts > Australia.
Environmental archaeology > Australia.
Archaeology > Australia.
Human ecology > Australia.
Australien
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The archaeology of deserts: Australia in context
  • Deserts past: a history of ideas
  • The empty desert: inland environments prior to people
  • Foundations: moving into the deserts
  • Islands in the interior: last glacial aridity and its aftermath
  • The 'desert culture' revisited: assembling a cultural system
  • Rock art and place: evolution of an inscribed landscape
  • The chain of connection: trade and exchange across the interior
  • The last millennium: archaeology and the classic ethnographies.

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