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Histories of old ages : essays in honour of Rhys Jones / edited by Atholl Anderson, Ian Lilley, Sue O'Connor.
- Title
- Histories of old ages : essays in honour of Rhys Jones / edited by Atholl Anderson, Ian Lilley, Sue O'Connor.
- Publication
- Canberra : Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, c2001.
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- Description
- ix, 444 p. ill. maps; 30 cm.
- Summary
- Collection of essays in honour of Professor Rhys Jones an internationally-distinguished archaeologist at ANU with a longstanding interest in Aboriginal art, the meanings of stone tool technology, the extinction of megafauna, and the historical ecology of Aboriginal substance practices.
- Subject
- Note
- "Published for the Centre for Archaeological Research"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The early life of a new chum 1941-1969 / Betty Meehan -- Peopled landscapes : from prehistoric Tasmania to contemporary Arnhem Land / John Mulvaney -- Betrayal as a universal element in the sundering of Bass Strait / Carmel Schrire -- The lasr typologist : Rhys Jones and the problem of the archaeologists -- "The last Tasmanian" : a personal view / Jim Allen -- Imagined continents /Clive Gamble -- People, land, fire and food: comments on two Jonesian themes / David Harris -- Kunj-ken Makka Man-wurrk : Fire is for kangaroos: interpreting Aboriginal accounts of landscapr burning in Central Arnhem Land -- Of cowboys and core-tools: revisionist reflections on Rhys Jones and "The Great Intensification debate" / Ian Lilley -- The Celtic chronologist : Rhys Jones and the dating of the human colonisation of Australia -- "Your obedient and humble servant" : notes for an Antipodean enquirt / J.V.S. Megaw -- Homo mobilis / L. R. Hiatt -- Russians and the Australian Aborigines (200 years of observation, research and speculation) / Elena Govor -- "Knowing" and "being" in place in the Western Desert / Robert Tonkinson and Myrna Tonkinson -- The Great Flood: eustatic change and cultural change in Australia during the late Pleistocene and Holocene / Scott Cane -- Climate before agriculture / John Chappell -- New Guinea, Australia and the Sahul connection / Jack Golson -- William Blandowski's fish: an ethnohistorical account near the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers -- The colonisations and visitations of Wales by Neanderthals and modern humans in the later Pleistocene -- Australian Aboriginal Art and Russian icon painting / Vladimir Kabo -- Erlikilyika: Arrernte ethnographer and artist / John Mulvaney -- Art at 40,000 BP? one step closer: an ochre covered rock from Carpenters Gap Shelter 1, Kimberley Region, Western Australia -- Najombolmi's people: from rock painting to national icon / Paul S. C. Tacon and Christopher Chippindale -- Wargata Mina to Gunbilmurrung: the direct dating of Australian Rock Art / Alan Watchman -- Wetlands archaeology in the top end: models, mounds and mobility / Sally Brockwell -- In search of the traditional Australian Aboriginal diet -- then and now / Neville G. White -- Seasonal movement in the prehistoric human ecology of the Alligator Rivers Region, North Australia / Sally Brockwell, Anne Clarke and Robert Levitus -- Raven mad : an analysis of bird bone from a West Point midden -- Prey choice and hunting strategies in the late Pleistocene : evidence from Southwest Tasmania.
- ISBN
- 1740760026
- LCCN
- ^^2001431087
- OCLC
- 48452612
- SCSB-12304649
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library