Chronology and explanation in western Victoria and south‐east South Australia

Bird, Caroline; Frankel, David

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.1991.tb00244.x

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“…Large sequences of radiocarbon dates are now routinely used to compare cultural chronologies at the local, regional and continental scales (e.g. Bird and Frankel 1991a;Holdaway and Porch 1995;Lourandos and David 1998;Ulm and Hall 1996). Assessment of the validity of individual dates and suites of dates has therefore become increasingly important as cultural chronologies are progressively refined and higher resolution understandings sought for particular archaeological questions.…”

Section: Coastal Themes: An Archaeology Of the Southern Curtis Coastmentioning

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“…The moving average method broadens the temporal influence of each date and results in a smoothed curve. This method has been adopted in several Australian studies using large regional suites of radiocarbon dates such as Bird and Frankel (1991a) for western Victoria and southeast South Australia, Holdaway and Porch (1995) for southwest Tasmania, Lourandos (1997, 1999;see also David 2002;Lourandos and David 1998) for southeast Cape York Peninsula, the semi-arid zone and arid zone, and Ulm and Hall (1996) for southeast Queensland.…”

Section: Regional Site Chronologymentioning

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“…Bird and Frankel 1991a;Fanning and Holdaway 2001;Hiscock and Attenbrow 1998;Holdaway et al 1998;Holdaway et al 2002;Ulm and Hall 1996). This shift to a conceptual emphasis on local and regional historical archaeological and environmental histories has not, however, been matched by an equivalent shift to the finer-grained methodologies needed to provide resolution of these issues.…”

Section: Introduction: Investigating the Archaeology Of The Southern mentioning

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Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland : An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland

Ulm¹

2006

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terra australis 24Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 994.01Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2006. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. THE RESEARCH DOCUMENTED here represents the first systematic archaeological work in this area of the southeast Queensland coast and was undertaken as a major part of a larger, multicomponent project concerning archaeology and cultural heritage in the traditional country of Gooreng Gooreng speaking people. Sean's task was to build upon the results of exploratory site survey and excavation to address two key concerns. The first was the relationship of patterns of cultural change in his study area to those described elsewhere in southeast Queensland. The second was to ensure that any such comparisons were taphonomically well-founded, particularly with regard to the analytical integrity of the shell middens upon which he and other coastal researchers in Australia rely so heavily. Sean took to this task with a vengeance, closely surveying a large area of landscape and excavating an array of site types to provide himself with a solid sample of the archaeological variation thus revealed. Though most were not archaeologically rich, these sites provided substantial grist for Sean's taphonomic mill, prompting him to adapt conjoining techniques to work on bivalve shellfish -a simple but clever innovation -as well as to undertake much more sophisticated work on local variation in correction factors for the radiocarbon dating of marine shell. In the end, he was able to distil the three-phase cul...

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Section: Coastal Themes: An Archaeology Of the Southern Curtis Coastmentioning

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Section: Regional Site Chronologymentioning

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Section: Introduction: Investigating the Archaeology Of The Southern mentioning

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2006

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“…Following this reasoning, increases in human population densities and range expansions have been suggested for many parts of the world in the Pleistocene and Holocene. It is widely held that human population and range increased significantly in Australia during the midHolocene, a time when new technologies, as well as the dingo, first appear in the Australian record (Morwood 1987, Bird & Frankell 1991, David & Lourandos 1997. The disappearance of the thylacine and Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) fi-om the mainland might be due to midHolocene intensification of land usage, rather than competition with dingoes (Johnson & Wroe 2003).…”

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Megafaunal extinction in the late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis

Wroe¹,

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Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

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“…Studies of archaeological databases (e.g. Bird and Frankel 1991b;Holdaway and Porch 1995) have also revealed a more complex picture than can be accommodated by a continental narrative, with the use of sites, places, landscapes and regions changing through time.…”

Section: Archaeology Of the Mid-to Late Holocene Periodmentioning

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Journeys into the Rainforest (Terra Australis 43)

Ferrier¹

2016

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terra australis 43Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 Copyright of the text remains with the author, 2015. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. List of Tables Table 3.1 Tablelands rainforest explorers, dates and locations. 23 Table 5.9 Definitions of stone artefact types represented in the Urumbal Pocket assemblage. 82 Table 5.10 The total numbers and the percentages of large artefacts per artefact type. 83 Table 5.11 Flakes, cores, angular fragments, tools and other stone implements 10 mm and greater in size, by number and proportion of the assemblage, per square. 84 Table 5.12 Artefact types, 10 mm and greater, per square in Analytical Unit 1, by number and percentage. 84 Table 5.13 Artefact types, 10 mm and greater, per square in Analytical Unit 2, by number and percentage. 85 Table 5.14 Mean weight (g) and size (mm) of complete flakes, including complete split flakes, and cores 10 mm and greater, on quartz and non-local raw materials grouped together. In this case size refers to the length of flakes and the maximum dimension of cores. 85 Table 5.15 The size (mm) and weight range (g) (minimum and maximum) of complete non-utilised flakes and complete cores on quartz and non-local raw materials. Size in this case refers to the axial length of flakes and the maximum dimension of cores. 86 Table 5.16 Proportion of artefacts by raw material category, of the total number of artefacts, by different cortex percentage categories. 87 Table 5.17 Average weight (g) and size (mm) (refers to maximum dimension in this case) and the minimum and maximum size of complete bipolar cores and non-bipolar cores in the assemblage. 89xii Journeys into the Rainforest terra australis 43 Table 5.20 Number and percentage of tools in each square. 93 Table 6.1 Morphological features recorded on modern walnuts and black pine nuts, compared with results from the archaeological nutshell fragment analysis. 108 Table 6.2 Total numbers and total weight (g) of plant specimens excavated from each square. 112 Table 6.3 Total weight (g) of plan...

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Chronology and explanation in western Victoria and south‐east South Australia

Cited by 73 publications

References 44 publications

Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland : An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland

Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland : An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland

Megafaunal extinction in the late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis

Journeys into the Rainforest (Terra Australis 43)

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