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Symbolic Revolutions and the Australian Archaeological Record

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dc.contributor.authorBrumm, Adam
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:45:50Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T10:25:25Z
dc.description.abstractAustralia was colonized by at least 40,000 bp and scientists agree that the continent was only ever occupied by anatomically and behaviourally modern humans. Australia thus offers an alternative early record for the archaeological expression of behavioural modernity. This review finds that the pattern of change in the Australian archaeological sequence bears remarkable similarity to the pattern from the Lower to Upper Palaeolithic in the Old World, a finding that is inconsistent with the 'symbolic revolution' model of the origin of modern behaviour. This highlights the need for archaeologists to rethink the implications of the various criteria and scales of analysis used to identify modern human behaviour.
dc.identifier.issn0959-7743
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/79972
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.sourceCambridge Archaeological Journal
dc.titleSymbolic Revolutions and the Australian Archaeological Record
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage175
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage157
local.contributor.affiliationBrumm, Adam, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationMoore, Mark, University of New England
local.contributor.authoruidBrumm, Adam, u4060505
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor210102 - Archaeological Science
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub8321
local.identifier.citationvolume15
local.identifier.doi10.1017/S0959774305000089
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-33747109771
local.type.statusPublished Version

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