We review the status of marine shellfish ecosystems formed primarily by bivalves in
Australia, including: identifying ecosystem-forming species, assessing their historical and …

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 origins of rock art in Australia are probably as old as that of the hunter-gatherers of
Western Europe, well-known for the prehistoric caves of Altamira and Lascaux. That the …

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 …

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 …

An excavation of a large rockshelter in Nara Inlet, Hook Island, on the central Queensland
coast has revealed archaeological evidence for early Holocene marine resource use dating …

__________________________________… Australia may have been first occupied
65,000 years ago (Clarkson et al. 2017) though caution has been recommended in …

Archaeological research on islands of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Province (GBRMP) only
commenced in the mid-to-late 1970s. Initial research was exploratory and restricted in …

Assessment and reporting of changes in vegetation condition at site and landscape scales is
critical for land managers, policy makers and planers at local, regional and national scales …