The archaeology of Australia's deserts
Smith, M. A.2013
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ARCHAEOLOGY BY PERIOD / REGION. AUSTRALIAN. 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.
Main title:
The archaeology of Australia's deserts / Mike Smith.
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Imprint:
Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Collation:
xxiii, 406 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780521407458 (hbk)9780521728706 (pbk)
Dewey class:
994.01
LC class:
GB618.89
Language:
English
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BRN:
352033