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

There has been renewed interest in the coastal colonization and occu-pation of Australia as
one of the major problem in understanding the place of Australia in the prehistory of the …

As a component of archaeological investigations on the central Queensland coast, a series
of five marine shell specimens live‐collected between AD 1904 and AD 1929 and 11 …

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 …

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

The images and written descriptions of the late 18th century European colonists and visitors
to Port Jackson portray fishing as a common and important subsistence activity of the …

Island archipelagos of the tropical coast of central Q ueensland include the most distant
offshore islands used by A boriginal A ustralians. Excavations on C ollins, O tterbourne and …

As Australia's largest peninsula, Cape York Peninsula in Queensland presents abundant
opportunities to understand the complex relationship between people and coastal …