Research Catalog

Title

Australian coastal archaeology / edited by Jay Hall and Ian J. McNiven.

Author

Australian Coastal Archaeology (1994 : Surfair International Resort)

Publication

Canberra, Australia : ANH Publications, Dept. of Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS, The Australian National University, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Hall, H. J.
• McNiven, Ian J.

Description

iv, 315 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

Research papers in archaeology and natural history ; no. 31

Uniform Title

Research papers in archaeology and natural history ; no. 31.

Subject

• Coastal archaeology > Australia > Congresses
• Aboriginal Australians > Antiquities > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Australia > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Australia > Congresses
• Australia > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers from the symposium, Australian Coastal Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions, held Sept. 1994 at the Surfair International Resort, Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Aquatic apes and littoral lifestyles / Sandra Bowdler -- Southwest Australian coastal economies / Moya Smith -- Archaeological assessment of Aboriginal estuarine fishing on the Southern Ocean coast of Western Australia / C.E. Dortch -- A diversity of coastal economies / Sue O.Connor -- Shell middens on the Mitchell Plateau / Bruce Veitch -- The occupation of arid coastlines during the terminal Pleistocene of Australia / Peter Veth -- Coastwatch / Kate Morse -- Research at Shark Bay, WA, and the nature of coastal adaptations in Australia / Sandra Bowdler -- Holocene coastal occupation of western Arnhem Land / Peter Hiscock -- Shell mounds and coastal archaeology in northern Queensland / Geoff Bailey.
• Archaeology, history and identity in coastal Cape York / Shelley Greer -- Coastal occupation in the Holocene / Bryce Barker -- Aboriginal settlement of offshore islands in the Southern Great Barrier Reef Province, central Queensland / Andrew Border -- The Keppel Islands / M.J. Rowland -- Fissioning and regionalisation / Ian J. McNiven -- The impact of sea level rise on the archaeological record of the Moreton Region, southeast Queensland / Jay Hall -- Integration of archaeological, palaeogeographical and ecological investigations on Stradbroke Island, SE Queensland / W.E. Boyd, A. Specht and M.M. Cotter -- Archaeological researc in coastal southeastern Australia / Val Attenbrow -- Two steps forward, one back / Luke Godwin -- A 5000 year old shell midden near Tea Gardens, New South Wales / P.J. Hughes and M.E. Sullivan.
• Shell middens on the central coast of New South Wales / Theresa Bonhomme -- Tsunami disturbance on coastal shell middens / Richard Fullagar ... [et al.] -- Abundant fields? / Joanna Fresløv and David Frankel -- East Gippsland coastal archaeology / Jennifer R. Richman -- Why the Tasmanians stopped eating fish / Robin Sim -- Soils, stratigraphy and shells / Michael Pemberton and Phil Cullen -- Holocene shoreline change and archaeology on the Kandrian coast of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea / W.E. Boyd, J. Specht and J. Webb -- Pleistocene shell technologies / Arita Smith and Jim Allen -- Storm in a test pit / John L. Craib and Gary R. Malgold -- Environmental archaeology of the coasts of SE Asia and PNG / W.E. Boyd.

ISBN

0731533143

OCLC

• 43299351
• SCSB-10079706

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library