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Sunda and Sahul : prehistoric studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia
- Title
- Sunda and Sahul : prehistoric studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia / edited by J. Allen, J. Golson, R. Jones.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Academic Press, 1977.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 647 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subject
- Prehistoric peoples > Southeast Asia
- Prehistoric peoples > Australia
- Prehistoric peoples > Australia > Northern Territory
- Antiquities
- Prehistoric peoples
- Southeast Asia > Antiquities
- Australia > Antiquities
- Melanesia > Antiquities
- Melanesia
- Northern Territory
- Australia
- Southeast Asia
- Südostasien
- Melanesien
- Australien
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Sunda and Sahul: an introduction / Rhys Jones -- Part 1 Stone tools and social judgements: Crude, colourless and unenterprising: Prehistorians and their views on the stone age of Sunda and Sahul / J. Peter White -- Reinterpreting the Southeast Asian palaeolithic / Karl L. Hutterer -- Sticks and stones and ground edge axes: the upper palaeolithic in Southeast Asia? / Brian Hayden -- Part 2 Peopling the new lands: The recalibration of a paradigm for the first peopling of Greater Australia / Joseph H. Birdsell -- The sources of human variation in Melanesia and Australia / W.W. Howells -- Separation or reconciliation? Biological clues to the development of Australian society / A.G. Thorne -- The coastal colonisation of Australia / Sandra Bowdler -- Further report on the Kaiadilt people of Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland / Norman B. Tindale -- Sea levels and coasts / J. Chappell and B.G. Thom -- Part 3 Birds and boats: Distributional strategies / Jared M. Diamond -- Man as an element of a continental fauna: the case of the sundering of the Bassian bridge / Rhys Jones -- Sea traffic, trade and expanding horizons / Jim Allen -- Part 4 The ethnographic witness: Subsistence strategies across Torres Strait / David R. Harris -- The sago eaters: an ecological discussion with special reference to the Oriomo Papuans / Ryutaro Ohtsuka -- Man does not live by calories alone: the role of shellfish in a coastal cuisine / Betty Meehan -- Implication of contemporary and prehistoric exchange systems / Jean Treloggen Peterson and Warren Petersen -- Part 5 The Sauer hypothesis: devising the tests Hoabinhian horticulture: the evidence and the questions from northwest Thailand / D.E. Yen -- No room at the top: agricultural intensification in the New Guinea highlands / Jack Golson.
- ISBN
- 0120512505
- 9780120512508
- LCCN
- 77074808
- OCLC
- ocm03325791
- 3325791
- SCSB-169686
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library