Peopled landscapes archaeological and biogeographic approaches to landscapes

"This volume brings together a collection of papers from a diverse field of international scholars exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance. The work is explicitly comparative and highlights...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Haberle, Simon (-), David, Bruno, 1962-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press 2012.
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Terra Australis ; 34.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34949276*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Peopled landscapes: the impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian quaternary science / Bruno David, Simon G. Haberle and Donald Walker
  • Archaeology and perceptions of landscape. Hay Cave: a 30,000-year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland, Australia / Harry Lourandos [and others]
  • An early-Holocene Aboriginal coastal landscape at Cape Duquesne, southwest Victoria, Australia / Thomas Richards
  • Aboriginal exploitation of toxic nuts as a late-Holocene subsistence strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests / Åsa Ferrier and Richard Cosgrove
  • Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast / Ian J. McNiven [and others]
  • Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: modelling the historical emergence of Kerewo regional polities on the island of Goaribari, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea / Bryce Barker [and others]
  • Cranial metric, age and isotope analysis of human remains from Huoshiliang, western Gansu, China / John Dodson [and others]
  • Not for the squeamish: a new microfossil indicator for the presence of humans / Mike Macphail, Mary Casey and Matthew Kelly
  • Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate / Christian A. Kull and Haripriya Rangan
  • Nature, culture and time: contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden / Lesley Head and Joachinm Regnéll
  • Biogeography and palaeoecology. The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: a southern hemisphere climatic connection / Marie-Pierre Ledru and Janelle Stevenson
  • When did the mistletoe family Loranthaceae become extinct in Tasmania? Review and conjecture / Mike Macphail [and others]
  • Wind v water: glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes / Jim M. Bowler [and others]
  • Late-quaternary vegetation history of Tasmania from pollen records / Eric A. Colhoun and Peter W. Shimeld
  • Holocene environments of the sclerophyll woodlands of the wet tropics of northeastern Australia / Patrick T. Moss [and others]
  • Holocene vegetation change at treeline, Cropp Valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand / Matt S. McGlone and Les Basher
  • Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in lake Purrumbete, western Victoria / John Tibby [and others]
  • Fire on the mountain: a multi-scale, multi-proxy assessment of the resilience of cool temperate rainforest to fire in Victoria's Central Highlands / Patrick J. Baker [and others]
  • Multi-disciplinary investigation of 19th century European settlement of the Willunga Plains, South Australia / Tim Denham [and others]
  • Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity / Cassandra Rowe
  • Surface [del]¹³C in Australia: a quantified measure of annual precipitation / Chris S.M. Turney
  • Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland conditions / Peter Gell
  • Regional genetic differentiation in the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus Gould) / Samantah Fox ... [et al.]