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- Title
- Footprints in the sand : appraising the archaeology of the Willandra Lakes, western New South Wales, Australia
- Related
- Antiquity, Vol. 82, No. 315, p.11-24
- Related
- http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/082/ant0820011.htm
- Publisher
- Antiquity Publications
- Date
- 2008
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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210100 Archaeology
- Author/Creator
- Allen, Harry
- Author/Creator
- Holdaway, Simon
- Author/Creator
- Fanning, Patricia
- Author/Creator
- Littleton, Judith
- Description
- Here is a paper of pivotal importance to all prehistorians attempting to reconstruct societies from assemblages of shells or stone artefacts in dispersed sites deposited over tens of thousands of years. The authors demonstrate the perilous connections between the distribution and content of sites, their geomorphic formation process and the models used to analyse them. In particular they warn against extrapolating the enticing evidence front Pleistocene Willandra into behavioural patterns by drawing on the models presented by nineteenth-century anthropologists. They propose new strategies at once more revealing and more ethical.
- Description
- 14 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 210100 Archaeology
- Subject Keyword
- Pleistocene
- Subject Keyword
- Holocene
- Subject Keyword
- stone age
- Subject Keyword
- Willandra
- Subject Keyword
- New South Wales
- Subject Keyword
- Darling
- Subject Keyword
- spatial theory
- Subject Keyword
- field method
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Graduate School of the Environment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/83330
- Identifier
- ISSN:0003-598X
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2008001122
- Language
- eng
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