Coastal Themes

Coastal Themes

An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland

Authored by: Sean Ulm
 

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Coastal archaeology in Australia differs in many respects from that of other areas, with the potential to examine relatively fine-scale variation. Nevertheless, there has been a general tendency in Australian archaeology to play down the variability and to subsume the evidence into broader homogenising models of Aboriginal cultural change. This case study clearly and self-consciously addresses the need to focus on local and regional patterns before moving on to more general levels of explanation.

Coastal Themes builds a detailed chronology of Aboriginal occupation for the southern Curtis Coast in Queensland. Innovative analyses refine radiocarbon dates and explore discard behaviours and post-depositional processes affecting the integrity of coastal archaeological sites. The resulting insights highlight major changes in Aboriginal use of this region over the last 5,000 years and disjunctions between the course of occupation in this and adjacent regions.

Details

ISBN (print):
9781920942939
ISBN (online):
9781920942960
Publication date:
Dec 2006
Note:
Terra Australis 24
Imprint:
ANU Press
DOI:
http://doi.org/10.22459/TA24.2006
Series:
Terra Australis
Disciplines:
Arts & Humanities: Archaeology; Social Sciences: Indigenous Studies
Countries:
Australia

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