Machine derived contents note: Introduction: archaeology and the totality of human behavior; 1. Tikatika; 2. Beyond analogy; 3. Behavior and adaptation; 4. Other adaptive models in Aboriginal Australia; 5. The anthropology of human residues; 6. The materialist approach in living archaeology; 7. The importance of being different; 8. Explaining the differences; 9. Antipodean anomalies; 10. Surprise package; Notes;Bibliography; Index
Summary
Theory and methodology proposed for ethnoarchaeological studies; adapted behaviour in contemporary Ngatatjara society used to infer adaptive behaviour in prehistoric communities; argument by anomaly preferred to argument by analogy; examples of ethnographic material from numerous contemporary studies related to the archaeological record revealed through excavations and surveys; data drawn from the whole continent with special focus on Western Desert region; includes theories on Aboriginal subsistence, access to resources, man-dog relationships and the importance of lithic and faunal discards
Analysis
Environment Adaptation of behaviour of prehistoric man expounded by adaptation to environment of behaviour of Western Australian aborigines
