Research Catalog

Title

Sahul in review : Pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia / edited by M.A. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser.

Publication

Canberra, Australia : Dept. of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, M. A.
• Spriggs, Matthew.
• Fankhauser, B.

Description

312 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm

Summary

Review volume containing papers grouped within the themes of scale, resolution and explanation, broad scale patterns, New Guinea and Island Melanesia, Northern Australia, Murray-Darling Basin, Tasmania; papers by Horton, Frankel, Smith and Sharp, Bowdler, Rosenfeld, Pardoe, OConnor ... et al., Morse, Davidson ... et al., Morwood, Hope, Johnston, Furby ... et al., McNiven ... et al., McGowan .. . et al., Freslov, Pocock, Dunnett, Brown annotated separately.

Series Statement

Occasional papers in prehistory ; no. 24

Uniform Title

Occasional papers in prehistory ; no. 24.

Subject

• From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
• Archaeology > Australia
• Archaeology > New Guinea
• Archaeology > Melanesia
• Geology, Stratigraphic > Pleistocene
• Antiquities
• Archaeology
• Geology, Stratigraphic
• Pleistocene Geologic Epoch
• Archäologie
• Continenten
• Australia > Antiquities
• New Guinea > Antiquities
• Melanesia > Antiquities
• River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
• Darling River (NSW SH55, SI54)
• Melanesia
• Tasmania (Tas.)
• Papua New Guinea (PNG)
• Australia
• Melanesia
• New Guinea

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Here be dragons / D.R. Horton -- Stimulating minds to fantasy? / Chris Ballard -- Pleistocene chronological structures and explanations / David Frankel -- Pleistocene sites in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia / M.A. Smith, N.D. Sharp -- Sunda and Sahul / Sandra Bowdler -- A review of the evidence for the emergence of rock art in Australia / Andrée Rosenfeld -- The Pleistocene is still with us / Colin Pardoe -- Changing intepretations of postglacial human subsistence and demography in Sahul / Susan O'Connor, Peter Veth, Nicola Hubbard -- Pleistocene vegetation change and early human occupation of a tropical mountain environment / Simon Haberle -- Bones, hunting and predation in the Pleistocene of northern Sahul / Mary-Jane Mountain -- Understanding the settlement of Pacific islands in the Pleistocene / Chris Gosden -- Pleistocene agriculture in the Pacific / Matthew Spriggs -- Pamwak rockshelter / Clayton Fredericksen, Matthew Spriggs, Wallace Ambrose.
• New radiocarbon dates from North West Cape, Western Australia / Kate Morse -- The human occupation of Cuckadoo 1 rockshelter, northwest central Queensland / Iain Davidson, Stephen A. Sutton, Stephen J. Gale -- Cause and effect / M.J. Morwood -- Pleistocene archaeological sites in the central Murray-Darling basin / Jeannette Hope -- Pleistocene shell middens of the Willlandra Lakes / Harvey Johnston -- The Cuddie Springs bone bed revisited, 1991 / J.H. Furby [and others] -- The Southern Forests Archaeological Project / Ian McNiven [and others] -- Photogrammetric recording of Pleistocene cave paintings in southwest Tasmania / Angela McGowan [and others] -- The role of open sites in the investigation of Pleistocene phenomena in the inland southwest of Tasmania / Joanna Freslow -- Excavation of limestone caves in the Nelson River valley, central western Tasmania / Celmara Pocock -- Diving for dinner / Gary Dunnett -- Mannalargenna Cave / Steve Brown -- The last days of Pompeii? / Jack Golson -- A revised bibliography of Pleistocene archaeological sites in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia / M.A. Smith, N.D. Sharp.

ISBN

• 0731515404
• 9780731515400

OCLC

• ocm30684354
• 30684354
• SCSB-9524120

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library