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- catalog abstract ""John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga take both chronological and regional approaches to describe 40,000 years of Australian Aboriginal cultures, languages, and practices. Discussing longstanding archaeological issues in light of recent discoveries, the authors address such topics as the timing of the first colonization, the mysterious extinction of many of the largest marsupials after the arrival of humans, and the interpretation of prehistoric rock art. Broad regional prehistories describe the emergence of toolmaking, the expansion of ceremonial exchanges, and the influence of Indonesian and Torres Strait islanders. The authors also address such contemporary issues as Aboriginal control over archaeological fieldwork and the repatriation of human remains."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11205509.
- catalog contributor b11205510.
- catalog coverage "Australia Antiquities.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga take both chronological and regional approaches to describe 40,000 years of Australian Aboriginal cultures, languages, and practices. Discussing longstanding archaeological issues in light of recent discoveries, the authors address such topics as the timing of the first colonization, the mysterious extinction of many of the largest marsupials after the arrival of humans, and the interpretation of prehistoric rock art. Broad regional prehistories describe the emergence of toolmaking, the expansion of ceremonial exchanges, and the influence of Indonesian and Torres Strait islanders. The authors also address such contemporary issues as Aboriginal control over archaeological fieldwork and the repatriation of human remains."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-470) and index.".
- catalog description "The past uncovered and its ownership -- The diversity of surviving traces -- Dating the past -- Changing landscapes -- People, language and society -- Subsistence and reciprocity -- Seafarers to Sahul -- Sahul: A Pleistocene continent -- The initial colonisation -- The original Australians -- Pleistocene settlement -- Conquest of the deserts -- Pleistocene artefacts -- Holocene stone tool innovations -- Theories and models: Explaining change -- People of the coast -- Regional challenges and responses -- Island settlement -- Tasmania -- Art on rock -- Rock art of temperate Australia -- Rock art of tropical Australia -- Asian and European newcomers.".
- catalog extent "xx, 480 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Prehistory of Australia.".
- catalog identifier "1560988045 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Prehistory of Australia.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Prehistory of Australia.".
- catalog spatial "Australia Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Australia.".
- catalog subject "994.01 21".
- catalog subject "Aboriginal Australians Antiquities.".
- catalog subject "Excavations (Archaeology) Australia.".
- catalog subject "GN875.A8 M85 1999".
- catalog subject "Prehistoric peoples Australia.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The past uncovered and its ownership -- The diversity of surviving traces -- Dating the past -- Changing landscapes -- People, language and society -- Subsistence and reciprocity -- Seafarers to Sahul -- Sahul: A Pleistocene continent -- The initial colonisation -- The original Australians -- Pleistocene settlement -- Conquest of the deserts -- Pleistocene artefacts -- Holocene stone tool innovations -- Theories and models: Explaining change -- People of the coast -- Regional challenges and responses -- Island settlement -- Tasmania -- Art on rock -- Rock art of temperate Australia -- Rock art of tropical Australia -- Asian and European newcomers.".
- catalog title "Prehistory of Australia / John Mulvaney & Johan Kamminga.".
- catalog type "text".