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Modelling hunter-gatherer settlement patterns : an Australian case study
- Title
- Modelling hunter-gatherer settlement patterns : an Australian case study / Michael Pickering.
- Author
- Pickering, Michael, 1957-
- Publication
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 240 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
- Summary
- The Garawa Aboriginal people of the southern inland Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia were, until relatively recently, hunter-gatherers. The three principal objectives of this volume are to provide an ethnography of Garawa land-use and settlement.
- Series Statement
- BAR international series ; 1103
- Uniform Title
- BAR international series ; 1103.
- Alternative Title
- Modelling hunter gatherer settlement patterns
- Subject
- Garawa (Australian people) > Ethnic identity
- Hunting and gathering societies > Australia
- Garawa (Australian people) > Land tenure
- Garrwa / Garrawa / Garawa people (N155) (NT SE53-08)
- Archaeology - Settlement patterns
- Sites - Surveys
- Environment - Climate and weather - Seasons
- Environment - Land management
- Social organisation
- Subsistence and economy
- 15.38 archaeology of the non-Western world
- Hunting and gathering societies
- Archeologie
- Jagers en verzamelaars
- Nederzettingen
- Landnutzung
- Physische Geographie
- Subsistenzwirtschaft
- Prehistoric peoples > Australia
- Social archaeology > Australia
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Australia
- Jägare/samlare > Australien
- Aboriginer > jordbruk
- Gulf of Carpentaria (SD53, SD54, SE54)
- Australia
- Australië
- Aborigines
- Australien
- Karawa (Volk)
- Australia > Antiquities
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-214).
- Contents
- 1. Problems, aims and ambitions -- 2. Theory and method 1: review of past approaches -- 3. Theory and method II: the study of Garawa hunter-gatherer settlement patterns -- 4. Theory and method 3: landscapes and Australian territorial organisation: a definition of concepts -- 5. The Garawa -- 6. Garawa subsistence and settlement: an ethnography -- 7. The environment: the physical landscape -- 8. Garawa estates and the physical landscape -- 9. The movement, subsistence, and settlement characteristics of Garawa land-using groups -- 10. Analyses of Garawa site distribution -- 11. A model of Garawa settlement patterns -- 12. Some observations on the archeology of settlement patterns -- 13. Summary discussion and conclusion.
- ISBN
- 184171481X
- 9781841714813
- LCCN
- 2003464520
- OCLC
- ocm52640336
- 52640336
- SCSB-1294090
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library