Title: The social archaeology of Australian indigenous societies /
Authors: David, Bruno, 1962-; Barker, Bryce.; McNiven, Ian J.; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians Antiquities; Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs; Aboriginal Australians History; Social archaeology Australia.; Australia Social life and customs.; Australia History.; Australia Antiquities.
Abstract: Reveals the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of long term changes in social relationships and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation of the environment.
Contents: The social archaeology of indigenous Australia / Ian J. McNiven, Bruno David and Bryce Barker -- An interview with Harry Lourandos / Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J. McNiven -- Harry Lourandos' life and work : an Australian archaeological odyssey / Sandra Bowdler -- Unpacking Australian prehistory / Bruno David and Tim Denham -- Hierarchies of knowledge and the tyranny of text : archaeology, ethnohistory and oral traditions in Australian archaeological interpretation / Bryce Barker -- Colonial diffusionism and the archaeology of external influences on Aboriginal culture / Ian J. McNiven -- Harry Lourandos, the 'great intensification debate, ' and the representation of indigenous pasts / Deborah Brian -- Footprints of the ancestors : the convergence of anthropological and archaeological perspectives in contemporary Aboriginal heritage studies / Luke Godwin and James F. Weiner -- Earth, wind, fire, water : the social and spiritual construction of water in Aboriginal societies / Marcia Langton -- The social, economic and historical construction of cycad palms among the Yanyuwa / John J. Bradley -- Landscapes with shadows of once living people : the kundawira challenge / Amanda Kearney and John J. Bradley -- Towards an experiential archaeology of place : from location to situation through the body / Franca Tamisari and James Wallace -- Hunter-gatherer social complexity at Roonka, South Australia / F. Donald Pate -- Social dynamism in the archaeology of the Western Desert / Peter Veth -- Environmental change and variability in south-western Victoria : changing constraints and opportunities for occupation and land use / John Tibby [and others] -- Landscapes in western Torres Strait history / Cassandra Rowe -- North of the Cape and south of the Fly: discovering the archaeology of social complexity in Torres Strait / Melissa Carter -- Destabilising how we view the past : Harry Lourandos and the archaeology of Bodmin Moor, south-west England / Barbara Bender.