Australia's human prehistory through more than 40,000 years is the challenging theme of
this masterly survey. John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga bring together the discoveries …

In his presentation of a range of prehistoric data, the author reviews archaeological and
ethnohistorical evidence together with environmental, demographic and socially-oriented …

The sea is central to the lives of contemporary coastal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people across northeast Australia. Indigenous histories and documentary sources show the …

The'Intensification Debate'of the 1980s was a critical especially regarding demographic,
socioeconomic and period in the investigation of Australian prehistory. It sociocultural …

This monograph describes research from the Whitsunday Islands, a group of 73 offshore
islands on the central Queensland coast in north-eastern Australia. The work presents …

Archaeological records documenting the timing and use of northern Great Barrier Reef
offshore islands by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout the Holocene …

Southeast Queensland is one of the most intensively studied archaeological provinces in
Australia, incorporating some 73 dated Aboriginal sites (Ulm and Reid 2000, 2004). Over the …

The settlement of mainland Australia at an early (and uncertainly known) date required a
water-crossing. What about the settlement of the islands—neither numerous nor large …

The Montebello Islands, lying some 120 km off the northwest coast of Australia, are probably
best known for the series of nuclear tests conducted there by the British between 1952 and …

Recent syntheses of Australian prehistory have emphasised the antiquity of colonisation of
the continent and the changes associated with the Pleistocene/Holocene transition (Jones …