The archaeology of ancient Australia
By: Peter Hiscock.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780415338103; 9780415338110
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples -- Australia; Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia; Australia -- Antiquities
Description: Peter Hiscock presents an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the 18th century AD.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The veil of antipodean pre-history; title: The colonization of Australia; title: Early settlement across Australia; title: Extinction of pleistocene fauna; title: Who were the first Australians?; title: Life in pleistocene Australia; title: Tasmania isolated; title: Technology in the holocene; title: Coastal economies in the holocene; title: Inland economies in the holocene; title: Arid zone economies in the holocene; title: Population growth and mobility; title: Social identity and interaction during the holocene; title: The ethnographic challenge : change in the last millennium.