Resisting the cold in ice age Tasmania: thermal environment and settlement strategies
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Humans had reached Tasmania by 35 000 years bp and were in residence at the peak of the last ice age. Curiously, the settlements in the coldest period are concentrated in the highest and most southerly places, and the colder the weather became, the more sites were occupied. The author deduces that early people specially sought out the rock shelters of the highlands to combat wind chill.
dc.contributor.author | Gilligan, Ian | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-08T22:14:18Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-598X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/30172 | |
dc.description.abstract | Humans had reached Tasmania by 35 000 years bp and were in residence at the peak of the last ice age. Curiously, the settlements in the coldest period are concentrated in the highest and most southerly places, and the colder the weather became, the more sites were occupied. The author deduces that early people specially sought out the rock shelters of the highlands to combat wind chill. | |
dc.publisher | Antiquity Publications | |
dc.source | Antiquity | |
dc.subject | Keywords: archaeology; climate conditions; human settlement; Pleistocene; shelter; social history; Australasia; Australia; Tasmania Cave sites; Cold adaptation; Shelter; Tasmanian Aborigines | |
dc.title | Resisting the cold in ice age Tasmania: thermal environment and settlement strategies | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 81 | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 210101 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u8304786xPUB71 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Gilligan, Ian, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 555 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 568 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-08T07:49:35Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-34848903309 | |
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