Future changes in sea-level are projected to have significant environmental and social
impacts, but we have limited understanding of comparable rates of change in the past. Using …

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 …

'Living archaeology,'says Richard Gould,'is ethnoarchaeology in the active voice'. Using as
case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author …

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

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 …

Field surveys of lithic sites in Central Australia and experimental tests of materials from these
sites permit evaluation of Binford's (1979) concept of embeddedness. While basically …

The rapid spread of Numic peoples into the Great Basin about 500-700 years ago is a major
anomaly in the prehistory of that region because, according to current interpretations, it …

This study provides some fresh insight into Neolithic domestic architecture through the
analysis of architectural technology and the control over the practice of house construction …

The peopling of Sahul (the combined continent of Australia and New Guinea) represents the
earliest continental migration and settlement event of solely anatomically modern humans …

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World
Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only …