Peopled landscapes : archaeological and biogeographic approaches to landscapes

Format:

Book

Contributor:

David, Bruno, Contributor.

Haberle, Simon, Contributor.

Australian National University, Content Provider.

Series:

Terra Australis Peopled landscapes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Effect of human beings on--Australasia.

Human ecology.

Landscape assessment--Australasia.

Landscape assessment.

Landscape changes--Australasia.

Landscape changes.

Human ecology--Australasia.

Nature--Australasia.

Nature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] ANU E Press 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the contribution of humans.

Contents:

Preliminary

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Peopled landscapes: The impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian Quaternary science

2. Hay Cave: A 30,000-year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland, Australia

3. An early-Holocene Aboriginal coastal landscape at Cape Duquesne, southwest Victoria, Australia

4. Aboriginal exploitation of toxic nuts as a late-Holocene subsistence strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests

5. Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast

6. Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: Modelling the historical emergence of Kerewo regional polities on the island of Goaribari, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea

7. Cranial metric, age and isotope analysis of human remains from Huoshiliang, western Gansu, China

8. Not for the squeamish: A new microfossil indicator for the presence of humans

9. Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate

10. Nature, culture and time: Contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden

II. Biogeography and Palaeoecology

11. The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: A Southern Hemisphere climatic connection

12. When did the mistletoe family Loranthaceae become extinct in Tasmania? Review and conjecture

13. Wind v water: Glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes

14. Late-Quaternary vegetation history of Tasmania from pollen records

15. Holocene environments of the sclerophyll woodlands of the Wet Tropics of northeastern Australia

16. Holocene vegetation change at treeline, Cropp Valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand

17. Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in Lake Purrumbete, western Victoria.

18. Fire on the mountain: A multi-scale, multi-proxy assessment of the resilience of cool temperate rainforest to fire in Victoria's Central Highlands

19. Multi-disciplinary investigation of 19th century European settlement of the Willunga Plains, South Australia

20. Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: Exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity

21. Surface ∂13C in Australia: A quantified measure of annual precipitation?

22. Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland condition

23. Regional genetic differentiation in the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus Gould).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph