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dc.contributor.authorSmith, M Aen
dc.contributor.authorRoss, Juneen
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-01T16:07:00Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.citationThe Holocene, 18(3), p. 379-388en
dc.identifier.issn1477-0911en
dc.identifier.issn0959-6836en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1399-
dc.description.abstractThis paper reviews the late Holocene archaeology of Central Australia. The last 1500 years saw significant changes in the archaeological record in this part of the Australian arid zone, with shifts in settlement pattern, site histories, resource use, tool inventories and rock art. Much of the evidence points to regional population growth, beginning 1500-1000 cal. BP and coinciding with expansion of summer-rainfall grassland and more frequent palaeoflood events. Hunter-gatherer groups appear to have increased their use of marginal or outlying areas as these became seasonally accessible. Responses to the demographic changes, especially in the better-watered ranges, include more extended occupation of existing sites, more processing of acacia and grass seeds, and an increase in territoriality reflected in the greater differentiation of rock art complexes after 1500 cal. BP. The archaeological changes are not scaled commensurately with the modest environmental shifts at this time, indicating that human-environment interactions were not linear. A human-environment threshold may have been breached 1500-1000 years ago, with existing socio-economic or historical factors acting to amplify the effects of small environmental changes. However, it remains difficult to fully characterize the nature of these human-environment interactions, despite the fine-grained archaeological record now available. An unresolved problem for this emerging picture of climatic amelioration and population growth is that Aboriginal settlement in Central Australia was expanding at a time when ENSO-driven variability appears to have been at its highest.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofThe Holoceneen
dc.titleWhat Happened at 1500-1000 cal. BP in Central Australia?: Timing, impact and archaeological signaturesen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0959683607087928en
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeologyen
local.contributor.firstnameM Aen
local.contributor.firstnameJuneen
local.subject.for2008210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeologyen
local.subject.seo750901 Understanding Australia?s pasten
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjross4@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:6255en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage379en
local.format.endpage388en
local.identifier.scopusid44449083304en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume18en
local.identifier.issue3en
local.title.subtitleTiming, impact and archaeological signaturesen
local.contributor.lastnameSmithen
local.contributor.lastnameRossen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:jross4en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1430en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleWhat Happened at 1500-1000 cal. BP in Central Australia?en
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorSmith, M Aen
local.search.authorRoss, Juneen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.identifier.wosid000256236000003en
local.year.published2008en
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