There is a “package” of cultural innovations that are claimed to reflect modern human
behaviour. The introduction of the “package” has been associated with the Middle-to-Upper …

Drawing on the recent synthesis of Australian palaeoclimate by the OZ-INTIMATE group
(Reeves et al., 2013a), we consider the effects of climate systems on past human settlement …

Several independent trajectories of subsistence intensification, often leading to agriculture,
began during the Holocene. No plant-rich intensifications are known from the Pleistocene …

In his presentation of a range of prehistoric data, the author reviews archaeological and
ethnohistorical evidence together with environmental, demographic and socially-oriented …

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the
eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for …

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World
Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only …

All forager (or hunter–gatherer) societies construct niches, many of them actively by the
concentration of wild plants into useful stands, small-scale cultivation, burning of natural …

It has long been recognized that the Australian archaeological record documents alterations
in settlement and technological strategies in the middle of the Holocene. Discussion of the …

It remains a mystery how Pama–Nyungan, the world's largest hunter-gatherer language
family, came to dominate the Australian continent. Some argue that social or technological …

A colonization model is proposed to explain the timing of human occupation in different
regions of the arid zone and the reasons for inferred demographic changes through time. A …