People of the Stone Age : hunter-gatherers and early farmers / general editor Goran Burenhult ; foreword by J. Peter White
- Bib ID:
- 1898668
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, c1993
- 240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 32 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0702226777
- Series:
- Illustrated history of humankind.
- Summary:
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Chapter entitled "Australia: the different continent" (pp. 207- 227) includes: An Aboriginal history by J. Peter White ; Archaeology in the Selwyn Ranges by Iain Davidson ; Art of the escarpments: image making in western Arnhem Land by Paul Tacon ; Saltwater people of the southwest Kimberley coast by Sue O'Connor.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Stone age
- Agriculture, Prehistoric
- Sites - Middens
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Environment - Land management - Fire
- Art - Art motifs - Cross-hatching
- Art - Rock art
- Fishing - Fish traps
- Technology - Shell - Fish hooks
- Transport - Water - Canoes
- Art - Art motifs - X-Ray
- Technology - Stone
- Housing - Shelters
- Selwyn Range (Qld Far West SF54-06)
- Widgingarri (WA West Kimberley SD51-15)
- Koolan Island (Buccaneer, WA West Kimberley SD51-15)
- High Cliffy Island (Buccaneer, WA West Kimberley SD51-15)
- West Arnhem Land (NT SD53, SC53)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Burenhult, Goran
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1993
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