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 …

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million
years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that …

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 …

For many decades the use of backed pieces from the Howiesons Poort, between about 70ka
and 55ka ago, in South Africa has been a point of discussion. Recently direct evidence has …

The Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter in southern India dates back to 35 000 years ago and
it is emerging as one of the key sites for documenting human activity and behaviour in South …

After several decades of research on the subject, we now know when the first livestock
reached southern Africa but the question of how they got there remains a contentious topic …

Here we propose that the backing of microliths—applying steep, blunting retouch along one
edge—is a highly evolvable trait that emerged many times in different places around the …

Australia was colonized by at least 40,000 bp and scientists agree that the continent was
only ever occupied by anatomically and behaviourally modern humans. Australia thus offers …

Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers skilfully integrates a wide range of data-raw-
material procurement, tool design, reduction and curation, patterns of distribution and …

After more than a century, debate over the explanation of microliths continues. We review
debates on three continents (Australia, India and southern Africa), and argue that depictions …