The archaeology of ancient Australia /
Peter Hiscock
- London : Routledge, 2008
- xviii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-329) and index.
The veil of antipodean pre-history -- The colonization of Australia -- Early settlement across Australia -- Extinction of Pleistocene fauna -- Who were the first Australians? -- Life in Pleistocene Australia -- Tasmania isolated -- Technology in the Holocene -- Coastal economies in the Holocene -- Inland economies in the Holocene -- Arid zone economies in the Holocene -- Population growth and mobility -- Social identity and interaction during the Holocene -- The ethnographic challenge : change in the last millennium.