There is a “package” of cultural innovations that are claimed to reflect modern human
behaviour. The introduction of the “package” has been associated with the Middle-to-Upper …

There are few archaeological sites that contain records for Pleistocene coastal occupation in
Australia, as is the case globally. Two major viewpoints seek to explain why so few sites …

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 …

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 …

Rapid climate change events can have devastating impacts upon agricultural production
and human society. Advances in spatial and temporal resolution of palaeoenvironmental …

Accounts of long-term cultural change in Australia have emphasised the late Holocene as
the period when 'complexity'emerged amongst foragers in Australia, associated with …

This paper describes the impact of two recent tropical cyclones on the coast and
archaeological record at Upstart Bay, North Queensland. Resurveys of Upstart Bay following …

The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions
on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion …

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 …