The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts (Cambridge World Archaeology) by - epub fb2 djvu
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Title: | The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts (Cambridge World Archaeology) |
ISBN: | 0521407451 |
ISBN13: | 978-0521407458 |
Other Formats: | lit mobi rtf lrf |
Pages: | 424 pages |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (February 25, 2013) |
Language: | English |
Size EPUB version: | 1740 kb |
Size FB2 version: | 1821 kb |
Category: | Other |
Subcategory: | Social Sciences |
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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.