Cultural advice

The Australian National University acknowledges, celebrates and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra region and to all First Nations Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing cultures in human history.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that ANU Library collections may include images, names, voices, and other representations of deceased persons.

Material in the collection may contain terms, language or views that reflect the period in which the item was created and may be considered inappropriate today.

Australian Deserts: Extreme Environments in Archaeology

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorVeth, Peter
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Alan
dc.contributor.authorPaterson, Alistair
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T23:22:38Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2015-12-10T10:33:12Z
dc.dc.identifiersThe first Australians passed through biogeographic filters of the increasingly depauperate islands of Wallacea to enter the most arid continent ever occupied by preindustrial era humans. But were Australia’s deserts marginal, extreme, and risky environments for these hyper-adaptive modern humans? We must recall that they were part of a “fast track” southern diaspora of modern humans from Africa to Australia who had already shown extraordinarily adaptive abilities. Given that the Last Glacial Maximum expanded Australia’s deserts even further and made for some truly extreme environments, what does archaeology tell us of how Ice Age Australians dealt with the most common environments in Sahul? By the time Europeans arrived in Australia, the deserts were more densely packed with people than ever before, a process that had escalated in the late Holocene to create the renowned desert societies known to et ... This is an excerpt from the content
dc.format.extent11 pages
dc.identifier.isbn9781441904263
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/66600
dc.publisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
dc.relation.ispartofEncyclopedia of Global Archaeology
dc.relation.isversionof1st Edition
dc.titleAustralian Deserts: Extreme Environments in Archaeology
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage665
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationBerlin
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage654
local.contributor.affiliationVeth, Peter, University of Western Australia
local.contributor.affiliationWilliams, Alan, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationPaterson, Alistair, University of Western Australia
local.contributor.authoruidWilliams, Alan, u4077044
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor060305 - Evolution of Developmental Systems
local.identifier.absfor040605 - Palaeoclimatology
local.identifier.absfor060201 - Behavioural Ecology
local.identifier.absseo960304 - Climate Variability (excl. Social Impacts)
local.identifier.absseo960311 - Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability
local.identifier.absseo970121 - Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4279067xPUB1312
local.identifier.doi10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2021
local.type.statusPublished Version

Downloads

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
01_Veth_Australian_Deserts:_Extreme_2014.pdf
Size:
389.37 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

ANU Research Publications

DSpace software copyright © 2002-2026 LYRASIS

abcd