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 …

People dwell in a world of their own subjective making. For many hunters, engagement with
the 'natural'world is a negotiated affair because animals, like people, possess spirits. A …

Abstract Excavations at Mask Cave on the sacred islet of Pulu off Mabuyag in the central
west of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait) reveal four occupational phases: Phase 1 (2900–3800 …

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 …

Excavations at Dauan 4 on the island of Dauan in the Top Western Islands of Torres Strait
revealed a 700 year sequence created by marine specialists who ate turtle, dugong, fish and …

Australia has an extensive coastline extending over 60,000 km through diverse tropical and
temperate environments. Indigenous archaeological sites are found along this coastline …

ABSTRACT Historical records for Torres Strait, including those from Haddon's 1898
Cambridge Anthropological Expedition, identify the Papuan mainland as the main trade …

Small Pacific reef islands (including atolls and sandy cays) are often precarious landscapes
for human habitation on the margins of sustainability. Formed mostly within the past 4000 …

The mid-to late-Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of a low island adjacent to the
southern Papuan coast is reconstructed from sedimentary and pollen analysis of swamp …

In this thesis an ethnoarchaeological approach is applied to the study of past settlement and
subsistence on the island of Mabuiag, one of the Western Torres Strait Islands situated …