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Human refugia in Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Terminal Pleistocene: a geospatial analysis of the 25-12 ka Australian archaeological record

Date

Authors

Williams, Alan

Ulm, Sean

Cook, Andrew R

Langley, Michelle C.

Collard, Mark

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

A number of models, developed primarily in the 1980s, propose that Aboriginal Australian populations contracted to refugia - well-watered ranges and major riverine systems - in response to climatic instability, most notably around the Last Glacial Maximum

Keywords

Keywords: archaeological evidence; archaeology; human activity; indigenous population; Last Glacial Maximum; prehistoric; radiocarbon dating; refuge; Australia Antarctic Cold Reversal; Geospatial analysis; Last Glacial Maximum; Minimum bounding rectangles; Prehistoric movement; Radiocarbon data; Refugia; Terminal Pleistocene

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/64524

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Archaeological Science

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.015

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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