An ecosystem is healthy if it is active, maintains its organization and autonomy over time,
and is resilient to stress. Healthy ecosystems provide human well‐being via ecosystem …

Aboriginal Australians represent one of the longest continuous cultural complexes known.
Archaeological evidence indicates that Australia and New Guinea were initially settled …

Demography is increasingly being invoked to account for features of the archaeological
record, such as the technological conservatism of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the …

Sedimentary archives at or near the timberline ecotone in Alpine glaciated areas contain
records to study Holocene climate change and the interplay between climate, ecosystems …

Abrupt and rapid changes in human societies are among the most exciting population
phenomena. Human populations tend to show rapid expansions from low to high population …

Social Archaeology and Material Worlds aims to forefront dynamic and cutting-edge social
approaches to archaeology. It brings together volumes about past people, social and …

It remains a mystery how Pama–Nyungan, the world's largest hunter-gatherer language
family, came to dominate the Australian continent. Some argue that social or technological …

The savannas of tropical northern Australia, covering 1.9 M km 2, are relatively unmodified
and support a very sparse human population (0.5 person/km 2). Largely marginalised and …

The orthodox notion of agriculture cumulatively and inevitably developing from foragers'
gathering practices is increasingly untenable. Recent archaeological, botanical and genetic …

The mechanisms leading to megafauna (> 44 kg) extinctions in Late Pleistocene (126,000—
12,000 years ago) Australia are highly contested because standard chronological analyses …