The archaeology of Australia's deserts [electronic resource] / Mike Smith.
2013
GB618.89 .S65 2013
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Title
The archaeology of Australia's deserts [electronic resource] / Mike Smith.
Author
Smith, M. A.
ISBN
9780521407458
9780521728706
9781107306103 (electronic book)
9780521728706
9781107306103 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 406 p. : ill., maps.
Call Number
GB618.89 .S65 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
994.01
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge world archaeology
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