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Author Bourke, Patricia.

Title Late holocene indigenous economies of the tropical Australian coast : an archaeological study of the Darwin region / Patricia Mary Bourke
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2012

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  304.2099429 Bou/Lhi  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Series BAR international series ; 2340
BAR international series ; 2340
Summary "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."--Publisher's website
Notes Edited version of the author's thesis--Northern Territory University, 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Archaeology -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Human Eology -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History
Human Eology -- Northern Territory -- History
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History.
Human ecology -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History.
Land settlement patterns -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Holocene
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
SUBJECT Northern Territory http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035353 -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002344
LC no. 2011487533
ISBN 1407309234 (paperback)
9781407309231 (paperback)