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The archaeology of Australia's deserts / Mike Smith, National Museum of Australia.

The archaeology of Australia's deserts / Mike Smith, National Museum of Australia.
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ISBN 9780521407458 (hardback)
9780521728706 (paperback)
Author Smith, M. A. (Michael Alexander), 1955-2022 (author)
Title The archaeology of Australia's deserts / Mike Smith, National Museum of Australia.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
©2013.
Description xxv, 406 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm.
Series Cambridge world archaeology
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: p.349-390.
Summary "This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere. Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental and archaeological data about this fascinating region has become available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts explores the late Pleistocene settlement of Australia's deserts, the formation of distinctive desert societies, and the origins and development of the hunter-gatherer societies documented in the classic nineteenth-century ethnographies of Spencer and Gillen. Written by one of Australia's leading desert archaeologists, the book interweaves a lively history of research with archaeological data in a masterly survey of the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that forces archaeology into conversations with history and anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and earth sciences" -- Back cover.
Local note Mike Smith Desert Collection copy signed on title page by the author.
Subjects Deserts -- Australia
Environmental archaeology -- Australia
Archaeology -- Australia
Human ecology -- Australia
Call number 551.415 SMI
Smith/M 001
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A0091706X 551.415 SMI
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A00914248 Smith/M 001
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