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 …

Recent developments in the study of early man have turned away from analysing fossil
remains as evidence of a single and inevitable process of evolution towards homo sapiens …

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the
eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for …

Australia was first peopled by maritime voyagers who intentionally crossed from Indonesia
using watercraft 65,000 years ago. Despite this, the Holocene archaeological record …

Dingoes are culturally and ecologically important free-living canids whose ancestors arrived
in Australia over 3,000 BP, likely transported by seafaring people. However, the early history …

Anthropological research reveals that the scale and complexity of Australian indigenous
seascapes correlate with the scale and complexity of spiritual engagements with the sea …

For all of hominin history the Australian continent has been separated by at least 70 km of
water from other coastlines. Its colonisation about 50,000 years ago can therefore be …

For over 200 years, Western scholarship has presented Torres Strait variously as a bridge
and barrier to cultural influences between mainland New Guinea and Australia. An …

The transition to specialization of knowledge within populations could have facilitated the
accumulation of cultural complexity in humans. Specialization allows populations to …

Archaeological excavations on the island of Badu have for the first time revealed evidence of
people in Torres Strait before 2500 years BP. We interpret this evidence as representing …