Holocene human impacts in Australia and the western Pacific
By: guest editor, L. Head
Series: Quaternary international -- v. 59
Publisher: Pergamon, Elsevier
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; Tarrytown, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Nature; Effect of human beings on; Paleoecology; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities
Notes: "July 1999 volume"--P. [2] of cover.

"A number of these papers were presented in a session of the same name at the Sixth Australasian Archaeometry Conference, Sidney, in February 1997"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Holocene human impacts in Australia and the Western Pacific  -- L. Head; title: Dating initial Maori environmental impact in New Zealand  -- M.S. McGlone and J.M. Wilmshurst; title: Prehistory and palaeoecology of Yap, federated states of Micronesia  -- J.R. Dodson and M. Intoh; title: Abandoned Orange-footed Scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt) nests and coastal rainforest boundary dynamics during the late Holocene in monsoonal Australia  -- D.M.J.S. Bowman, W.J. Panton and J. Head; title: Late Holocene biological records from the middens of stick-nest rats in the central Australian arid zone  -- S. Pearson; title: Vegetation and fire response to late Holocene human occupation in island and mainland northwest Tasmania  -- G. Hope; title: Cultural versus natural explanations for lacunae in Aboriginal occupation deposits in northern Australia  -- S. O'Connor, P. Veth and A. Barham; title: The local environmental impact of prehistoric populations on Saibai Island, northern Torres Strait, Australia : enigmatic evidence from Holocene swamp lithostratigraphic records  -- A.J. Barham; title: Landscape as mind : land use, cultural space and chance in north Queensland prehistory -- B. David and H. Lourandos.