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Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: An archaeological study of the Darwin Region

This monograph presents a study of Indigenous economies in traditional Larrakia country, the Darwin coastal region of northern Australia, during the Late Holocene period. Subsistence and settlement patterns of this period are revealed through archaeological investigation of shell mounds, which dominate the study area and have long been a topic of scholarly interest both internationally and in Australia. Addressed are cultural, environmental and taphonomic aspects of mound formation and the implications of inter and intra-midden variability for interpretations of chronological change in hunter-gatherer economic systems, particularly with regard to theories of Holocene intensification in the Australian literature. In this work, therefore, the author explores the question of why people built mounds of shell and why they then stopped this practice that had continued for millennia.

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Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: An archaeological study of the Darwin Region

This monograph presents a study of Indigenous economies in traditional Larrakia country, the Darwin coastal region of northern Australia, during the Late Holocene period. Subsistence and settlement patterns of this period are revealed through archaeological investigation of shell mounds, which dominate the study area and have long been a topic of scholarly interest both internationally and in Australia. Addressed are cultural, environmental and taphonomic aspects of mound formation and the implications of inter and intra-midden variability for interpretations of chronological change in hunter-gatherer economic systems, particularly with regard to theories of Holocene intensification in the Australian literature. In this work, therefore, the author explores the question of why people built mounds of shell and why they then stopped this practice that had continued for millennia.

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Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: An archaeological study of the Darwin Region

Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: An archaeological study of the Darwin Region

by Patricia Mary Bourke
Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: An archaeological study of the Darwin Region

Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: An archaeological study of the Darwin Region

by Patricia Mary Bourke

Overview

This monograph presents a study of Indigenous economies in traditional Larrakia country, the Darwin coastal region of northern Australia, during the Late Holocene period. Subsistence and settlement patterns of this period are revealed through archaeological investigation of shell mounds, which dominate the study area and have long been a topic of scholarly interest both internationally and in Australia. Addressed are cultural, environmental and taphonomic aspects of mound formation and the implications of inter and intra-midden variability for interpretations of chronological change in hunter-gatherer economic systems, particularly with regard to theories of Holocene intensification in the Australian literature. In this work, therefore, the author explores the question of why people built mounds of shell and why they then stopped this practice that had continued for millennia.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781407309231
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Publication date: 04/01/2012
Series: bar s , #2340
Pages: 202
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.60(d)

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Patricia Mary Bourke
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