Digging up a past
By: John Mulvaney
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781742232195
Subjects: Archaeologists; Biography; Historians
Description: Known as an historian, archaeologist, conservationist, leading public intellectual and, most famously, the 'Father of Australian archaeology', John Mulvaney is renowned for uncovering the depth of Australian human prehistory, dating the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation to previously unthought-of tens of thousands of years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-338) and index.