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- Title
- Variability in the chronology of late Holocene Aboriginal occupation on the arid margin of southeastern Australia
- Related
- Journal of archaeological science, Vol. 29, Issue 4, p.351-363
- DOI
- 10.1006/jasc.2002.0719
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Date
- 2002
- Author/Creator
- Holdaway, Simon J
- Author/Creator
- Fanning, Patricia C
- Author/Creator
- Jones, Martin
- Author/Creator
- Shiner, Justin
- Author/Creator
- Witter, Dan C
- Author/Creator
- Nicholls, Geoff
- Description
- Analysis of 28 radiocarbon determinations obtained from the excavation of heat retainer hearths from Sturt National Park in western New South Wales, indicates Aboriginal occupation of the arid margin of Australia during the last 1700 years. The determinations show two phases of hearth construction separated by a period of at least 200 years, and possibly 400 years, when no hearths were constructed. Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological evidence is reviewed in an effort to account for the late Holocene dates from the hearths and the existence of the hiatus in hearth construction. Despite the close match between the hiatus and the so-called Medieval Warm Period, caution is required before extrapolating the results from an archaeological study of a small geographic region to the continent as a whole.
- Description
- 13 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 210102 Archaeological Science
- Subject Keyword
- 040601 Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution
- Subject Keyword
- 040606 Quaternary Environments
- Subject Keyword
- Australian Aborigines
- Subject Keyword
- radiocarbon dating
- Subject Keyword
- Holocene
- Subject Keyword
- arid zone
- Subject Keyword
- palaeoenvironment
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Graduate School of the Environment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/8237
- Identifier
- mq:653
- Identifier
- ISSN:1095-9238
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2002016272
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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