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0000-0002-1717-6390
Current Organisation
University of Western Australia
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Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Archaeological Science | Surface Processes | Geology | Geochronology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture language and history | Indigenous Health | Other Studies in Human Society | Aboriginal Studies | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Archaeology Of Complex Societies: Asia, Africa, Oceania And The | Archaeological science | Archaeology Of Complex Societies: Europe, The Mediterranean And | Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Archaeological Science | Organic Geochemistry | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history | Quaternary environments | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge | Environmental Impact Assessment | Maritime Archaeology | Physical Geography | Race And Ethnic Relations | Social And Cultural Anthropology |
Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Conserving the Historic Environment | Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health | Education across cultures | Environmental education and awareness | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-01-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2021
Abstract: This paper explores identity and the recursive impacts of cross-cultural colonial encounters on in iduals, cultural materials, and cultural practices in 20th-century northern Australia. We focus on an assemblage of cached metal objects and associated cultural materials that embody both Aboriginal tradition and innovation. These cultural materials were wrapped in paperbark and placed within a ring of stones, a bundling practice also seen in human burials in this region. This ‘cache' is located in close proximity to rockshelters with rich, superimposed Aboriginal rock art compositions. However, the cache shelter has no visible art, despite available wall space. The site shows the utilisation of metal objects as new raw materials that use traditional techniques to manufacture a ground edge metal axe and to sharpen metal rods into spears. We contextualise these objects and their hypothesised owner(s) within narratives of invasion/contact and the ensuing pastoral history of this region. Assemblage theory affords us an appropriate theoretical lens through which to bring people, places, objects, and time into conversation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-04-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-02-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 06-11-2017
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190607357.013.31
Abstract: The multiple Aboriginal rock art traditions of Australia’s Kimberley contain primary evidence of commensal human–plant relationships that we term ‘ecoscaping’. Produced over tens of thousands of years, Kimberley rock art contains up to 25% of sites with plant depictions in some of its earliest traditions, which date to at least 16,000 years ago. A finite range of food and medicinal plants are depicted (yams, tubers, fruits, as well as paint-soaked grasses pressed onto rock walls) in structured iconographic and landscape contexts. Very few gatherer-hunter rock arts globally offer such plentiful, detailed, and archaeologically and palaeoenvironmentally contextualized evidence of plants in both daily life and symbolic thought. We suggest that this rock art is evidence of an entangled landscape that combines geography, hydrology, biological vitality, and anthropological dynamics—an ‘ecoscaping’ that differs from more deterministic formulations such as ‘domiculture’. Kimberley plant rock art is best understood as a key artefact and practice in how people managed the often extreme environmental and concomitant social change the Kimberley has experienced.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2002
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21498
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2002
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0008978X
Abstract: Reinvestigations of the cave of Lene Hara in East Timor have yielded new dating evidence showing occupation from before 30,000 BP. These will further fuel the debates on early colonization of the region.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2019
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5178
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 11-12-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
Publisher: Coquina Press
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.26879/1050
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 18-08-2022
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190095611.013.32
Abstract: This article re-envisages the human settlement of Australia’s deserts. It makes a case for their early occupation at the continental scale (a) by c. 60 ka (b) during an early wet phase (c) with rapid expansion of people (d) relying on water features and (e) showing changes through time in response to changing regional conditions. It is now well established that Australia’s deserts are as erse as they are extensive and that ‘behavioural dynamism’ provides a better explanatory framework for arid zone social organization than ‘cultural conservatism’. Conceptual building blocks to explain desert settlement have included the process of human biogeography, the role of cryptic refugia in providing wide-scale foraging networks, and shifts in mobility in response to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and other climatic events. The models which have emphasized different characteristics and scales of change in desert societies include peoples’ responses to ‘glacial refugia’, ‘desert transformations’, ‘water distribution’, and ‘cryptic refugia’. The article synthesizes new archaeological results and climate data from key sites across Australia’s deserts. The authors propose a new model for the settlement of Australia’s arid zone based on new climatic and archaeological data and finer-grained ecological and social approaches.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-04-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-021-21551-3
Abstract: The peopling of Sahul (the combined continent of Australia and New Guinea) represents the earliest continental migration and settlement event of solely anatomically modern humans, but its patterns and ecological drivers remain largely conceptual in the current literature. We present an advanced stochastic-ecological model to test the relative support for scenarios describing where and when the first humans entered Sahul, and their most probable routes of early settlement. The model supports a dominant entry via the northwest Sahul Shelf first, potentially followed by a second entry through New Guinea, with initial entry most consistent with 50,000 or 75,000 years ago based on comparison with bias-corrected archaeological map layers. The model’s emergent properties predict that peopling of the entire continent occurred rapidly across all ecological environments within 156–208 human generations (4368–5599 years) and at a plausible rate of 0.71–0.92 km year −1 . More broadly, our methods and approaches can readily inform other global migration debates, with results supporting an exit of anatomically modern humans from Africa 63,000–90,000 years ago, and the peopling of Eurasia in as little as 12,000–15,000 years via inland routes.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-08-2020
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 06-09-2022
DOI: 10.22459/TA55.2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 05-11-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-05-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-08-2018
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5164
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-10-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-022-21021-W
Abstract: Specimen identification is the backbone of archeozoological research. The challenge of differentiating postcranial skeletal elements of closely related wild animals in bio erse regions can prove a barrier to understanding past human foraging behaviours. Morphometrics are increasingly being employed to classify paleozoological animal remains, however, the potential of these methods to discriminate between wild animal groups has yet to be fully realised. Here we demonstrate the applicability of a traditional morphometric approach to taxonomically classify foot and ankle bones of kangaroos, a large and highly erse marsupial family. Using multiple discriminant analysis, we classify archaeological specimens from Boodie Cave, in northwest Australia and identify the presence of two locally extinct macropod species during the terminal Pleistocene. The appearance of the banded hare-wallaby and northern nail-tail wallaby in the Pilbara region at this time provides independent evidence of the ecological and human responses to a changing climate at the end of the last Ice Age. Traditional morphometrics provides an accessible, inexpensive, and non-destructive tool for paleozoological specimen classification and has substantial potential for applications to other erse wild faunas.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 28-04-2021
DOI: 10.3390/MOLECULES26092582
Abstract: This paper presents the first application of mammal tooth enamel carbonate stable isotope analysis for the purpose of investigating late Pleistocene–early Holocene environmental change in an Australian archaeological context. Stable carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope ratios were analyzed from archaeological and modern spectacled hare wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus) and hill kangaroo (Osphranter robustus) tooth enamel carbonates from Boodie Cave on Barrow Island in Western Australia. δ18O results track the dynamic paleoecological history at Boodie Cave including a clear shift towards increasing aridity preceding the onset of the Last Glacial Maximum and a period of increased humidity in the early to mid-Holocene. Enamel δ13C reflects ergent species feeding ecology and may imply a long-term shift toward increasing ersity in vegetation structure. This study contributes new data to the carbonate-isotope record for Australian fauna and demonstrates the significant potential of stable isotope based ecological investigations for tracking paleoenvironment change to inter-strata resolution.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-01-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 19-09-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-10-2013
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 06-2018
Abstract: This research aims to explore the submerged landscapes of the Pilbara of western Australia, using predictive archaeological modelling, airborne LiDAR, marine acoustics, coring and er survey. It includes excavation and geophysical investigation of a submerged shell midden in Denmark to establish guidelines for the underwater discovery of such sites elsewhere.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-03-2018
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5150
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-1991
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-05-2021
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21863
Abstract: Archaeologists often wonder how and when rock shelters formed, yet their origins and antiquity are almost never systematically investigated. Here we present a new method to determine how and when in idual boulders and rock shelters came to lie in their present landscape settings. We do so through 3D laser (LiDAR) mapping, illustrating the method by ex le of the Borologa Aboriginal site complex in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Through a combination of geomorphological study and high‐resolution 3D modelling, in idual blocks of rock are refitted and repositioned t680their originating cliff‐line. Preliminary cosmogenic nuclide ages on exposed vertical cliff faces and associated detached boulders above the Borologa archaeological sites signal very slow detachment rates for the mass movements of large blocks down the Drysdale Valley slopes, suggesting relative landscape stability over hundreds of thousands of years (predating the arrival of people). These findings offer hitherto unknown details of the pace of regional landscape evolution and move us toward a better understanding of patterns of human occupation in a context of relatively stable rock outcrops both within the sites and across the region.
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Date: 12-10-2016
DOI: 10.1144/SP411.4
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-07-2019
DOI: 10.1002/OA.2787
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 07-02-2020
Abstract: Radiocarbon-dated mud wasp nests provide a terminal Pleistocene age estimate for an Australian Aboriginal rock art style.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-06-2016
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5101
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2020
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5220
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-08-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-04-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
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