The archaeology of Australia's deserts /
Smith, Mike, 1955-
The archaeology of Australia's deserts / Mike Smith, National Museum of Australia. - New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013. - xxv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Cambridge world archaeology .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-390) and index.
"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"--
9780521407458 (hardback) 9780521728706 (paperback)
2012031958
Deserts--Australia.
Environmental archaeology--Australia.
Archaeology--Australia.
Human ecology--Australia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
GB618.89 / .S65 2013
994.01
The archaeology of Australia's deserts / Mike Smith, National Museum of Australia. - New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013. - xxv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Cambridge world archaeology .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-390) and index.
"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"--
9780521407458 (hardback) 9780521728706 (paperback)
2012031958
Deserts--Australia.
Environmental archaeology--Australia.
Archaeology--Australia.
Human ecology--Australia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
GB618.89 / .S65 2013
994.01