A continental narrative: Human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years

AN Williams, P Veth, W Steffen, S Ulm… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Drawing on the recent synthesis of Australian palaeoclimate by the OZ-INTIMATE group
(Reeves et al., 2013a), we consider the effects of climate systems on past human settlement …

Archaeological climate proxies and the complexities of reconstructing Holocene El Niño in coastal Peru

DH Sandweiss, CFT Andrus… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological evidence plays a key role in longitudinal studies of humans and climate.
Climate proxy data from Peruvian archaeological sites provide a case study through insight …

Holocene demographic changes and the emergence of complex societies in prehistoric Australia

AN Williams, S Ulm, CSM Turney, D Rohde, G White - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
A continental-scale model of Holocene Australian hunter-gatherer demography and mobility
is generated using radiocarbon data and geospatial techniques. Results show a delayed …

Lapita colonization across the Near/Remote Oceania boundary

PJ Sheppard - Current Anthropology, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
The Lapita colonization of Remote Oceania involved rapid expansion from New Guinea
across one-tenth of the circumference of the earth. Implicit in most discussions of this …

[HTML][HTML] Karnatukul (Serpent's Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia's Western Desert

J McDonald, W Reynen, F Petchey, K Ditchfield… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The re-excavation of Karnatukul (Serpent's Glen) has provided evidence for the human
occupation of the Australian Western Desert to before 47,830 cal. BP (modelled median …

Exploring the relationship between Aboriginal population indices and fire in Australia over the last 20,000 years

AN Williams, SD Mooney, SA Sisson… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
The extent of prehistoric human impact on the environment is a contentious topic in various
palaeo-environmental sciences. The long history of humans in Australia and its extensive …

Palaeoclimate and human occupation in southeastern arid Australia

PJ Hughes, ME Sullivan, P Hiscock - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
This review focuses on the relationships between palaeoenvironmental change and
prehistoric occupation in the driest part of the Australian arid zone. Palaeoclimatic evidence …

Dating Aboriginal stone-walled fishtraps at Lake Condah, southeast Australia

IJ McNiven, J Crouch, T Richards, N Dolby… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Direct dating of stone-walled fishtraps has been a methodological challenge in archaeology
and is generally considered insurmountable. Dating is usually associative, linking traps to …

The social dynamics of aggregation and dispersal in the Western Desert

J McDonald, P Veth - A companion to rock art, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Meg Conkey's (1980) study of decorated antler/bone objects at Altamira
formulated explicit test implications for aggregation and dispersal in hunter-gatherer …

What was ground?: a functional analysis of grinding stones from Madjedbebe and Lake Mungo, Australia

E Hayes - 2015 - ro.uow.edu.au
This thesis addresses the use of grinding stones and fragments in Australia through an
integrated use-wear and residue analysis of tools from two early occupation sites …