@article{888019,
      recid = {888019},
      author = {Smith, M. A.},
      title = {The archaeology of Australia's deserts [electronic  resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      pages = {xxv, 406 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of  Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and  the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere.  Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental  and archaeological data about this fascinating region has  become available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, The  Archaeology of Australia's Deserts explores the late  Pleistocene settlement of Australia's deserts, the  formation of distinctive desert societies, and the origins  and development of the hunter-gatherer societies documented  in the classic nineteenth-century ethnographies of Spencer  and Gillen. Written by one of Australia's leading desert  archaeologists, the book interweaves a lively history of  research with archaeological data in a masterly survey of  the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that  forces archaeology into conversations with history and  anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and earth  sciences"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/888019},
}