Quinkan Prehistory
DOWNLOAD
Download Quinkan Prehistory PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Quinkan Prehistory book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Quinkan Prehistory
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mike J. Morwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Quinkan Prehistory written by Mike J. Morwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Aboriginal Australians categories.
Collection of 15 papers on aspects of the archaeology of the region from Laura to Princess Charlotte Bay, S.E. Cape York, Queensland; includes excavation report; environmental and palaeoecological studies; papers on local history, ethnography, rock art and technological change by Morwood; Ruig and Morwood; Cole; Morwood and LOste-Brown annotated separately.
The Cambridge World Prehistory
DOWNLOAD
Author : Colin Renfrew
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-09
The Cambridge World Prehistory written by Colin Renfrew and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-09 with Social Science categories.
The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries ago. Written by a team of leading international scholars, the volumes include both traditional topics and cutting-edge approaches, such as archaeolinguistics and molecular genetics, and examine the essential questions of human development around the world. The volumes are organised geographically, exploring the evolution of hominins and their expansion from Africa, as well as the formation of states and development in each region of different technologies such as seafaring, metallurgy and food production. The Cambridge World Prehistory reveals a rich and complex history of the world. It will be an invaluable resource for any student or scholar of archaeology and related disciplines looking to research a particular topic, tradition, region or period within prehistory.
Histories Of Australian Rock Art Research
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jo McDonald
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2022-09-06
Histories Of Australian Rock Art Research written by Jo McDonald and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-06 with Social Science categories.
Australia has one of the largest inventories of rock art in the world with pictographs and petroglyphs found almost anywhere that has suitable rock surfaces – in rock shelters and caves, on boulders and rock platforms. First Nations people have been marking these places with figurative imagery, abstract designs, stencils and prints for tens of thousands of years, often engaging with earlier rock markings. The art reflects and expresses changing experiences within landscapes over time, spirituality, history, law and lore, as well as relationships between individuals and groups of people, plants, animals, land and Ancestral Beings that are said to have created the world, including some rock art. Since the late 1700s, people arriving in Australia have been fascinated with the rock art they encountered, with detailed studies commencing in the late 1800s. Through the 1900s an impressive body of research on Australian rock art was undertaken, with dedicated academic study using archaeological methods employed since the late 1940s. Since then, Australian rock art has been researched from various perspectives, including that of Traditional Owners, custodians and other community members. Through the 1900s, there was also growing interest in Australian rock art from researchers across the globe, leading many to visit or migrate to Australia to undertake rock art research. In this volume, the varied histories of Australian rock art research from different parts of the country are explored not only in terms of key researchers, developments and changes over time, but also the crucial role of First Nations people themselves in investigations of this key component of their living heritage.
The Figured Landscapes Of Rock Art
DOWNLOAD
Author : George Nash
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-04
The Figured Landscapes Of Rock Art written by George Nash and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04 with Art categories.
A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.
Lithics In The Land Of The Lightning Brothers
DOWNLOAD
Author : Chris Clarkson
language : en
Publisher: ANU E Press
Release Date : 2007-09-01
Lithics In The Land Of The Lightning Brothers written by Chris Clarkson and has been published by ANU E Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with Cave dwellings categories.
LITHICS IN THE LAND OF THE LIGHTNING BROTHERS skilfully integrates a wide range of data-raw-material procurement, tool design, reduction and curation, patterns of distribution and association-to reveal the major outlines of Wardaman prehistory. At the same time, the book firmly situates data and methods in broad theoretical context. In its regional scope and thorough technological approach, this book exemplifies the best of recent lithic analysis and hunter-gatherer archaeology. Any archaeologist who confronts the challenge of classifying retouched stone tools should consult this volume for a clear demonstration of reduction intensity as a source of size and form variation independent of "type." Yet the demonstration is not merely methodological; Clarkson shows how the measurement of reduction intensity informs analysis of technological diversity and other cultural practices. In Clarkson's hands, Wardaman prehistory emerges as a particular record of the human past. Yet the book is also a case study in prolonged cultural response to environmental conditions and the way in which cultures persist and reproduce themselves over long spans of time. The result is an analytical tour de force that will guide hunter-gatherer archaeology in Australia and elsewhere for years to come.
Land And Language In Cape York Peninsula And The Gulf Country
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jean-Christophe Verstraete
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-02-18
Land And Language In Cape York Peninsula And The Gulf Country written by Jean-Christophe Verstraete and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic, anthropological, archaeological and historical work focused on Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, in Australia’s northeast. The volume also honours Bruce Rigsby, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Queensland, whose work has inspired all of the contributors. The papers in the volume are organized in terms of five key themes, including the use of historical and archaeological methods to reconstruct aspects of language and social organization, anthropological and linguistic work uncovering aspects of world view embedded in languages and ethnographic data sets, the study of post-contact transformations in language and society, and the return of archival data to communities. Its thematic intersections draw together the varied disciplinary threads in an overview of the cultures and languages of the region, and will appeal to all those interested in Australian Aboriginal studies, linguistics, anthropology and associated disciplines.
Boundary Writing
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lynette Russell
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-06-30
Boundary Writing written by Lynette Russell and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-30 with Social Science categories.
Have globalization and the emergence of virtual cultures reduced cultural diversity? Will the world become homogenized or Americanized? Boundary Writing sets out to demonstrate that this oversimplification denies the reality that today there is greater space for cultural diversity than ever before. It explores the desire to categorize individuals and collectivities into racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality categories (black and white, men and women, gay and straight), which is a feature of most Western societies. More specifically, it analyzes the boundaries and edges of these categories and concepts. Across nine chapters, contributors reveal that such binaries are often too restrictive. Through a series of case studies they consider how these various concepts overlap, coincide, and at times conflict.They investigate the tension between these classifications that in turn produce individual speaking positions. Many people—indigenous, native, Anglo-settler, recent migrants of diverse ethnic backgrounds, gay, transgender, queer—occupy an "in between" position that is strategically shifting with the social, political, and economic circumstances of the individual. In Boundary Writing, the reader will journey through various complex permutations of identity and in particular the ways in which indigeneity, race, sex, and gender interact and even counter-act one another. Contributors: Erez Cohen, Aaron Corn, Bruno David, Neparrna Gumbula, Michele Grossman, Myfanwy McDonald, Clive Moore, Stephen Pritchard, Liz Reed, Lynette Russell.
Archaeology
DOWNLOAD
Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002
Archaeology written by Barry W. Cunliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
Twenty-six leading scholars from around the world have come together to celebrate the strengths, the energies and the sheer intellectual excitement of their discipline. They unashamedly proclaim that over the last hundred years archaeology has transformed itself from a genteel antiquarianpursuit, deeply rooted in the classical tradition, to a rigorous and demanding discipline, spanning the humanities and the sciences, yet at the same time one widely accessible to the public at large. The contributors show how our understanding of the past has changed, reveal the exciting ideas under current debate, and offer their visions of the future.The result is a remarkable overview of world archaeology, focusing on new and unexpected themes at the cutting edge of the discipline.
World Prehistory
DOWNLOAD
Author : John M. Coles
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1999
World Prehistory written by John M. Coles and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
This edited book details some of the new developments in the major fields of interest of the late Grahame Clark, one of the foremost figures in prehistoric archaeology. The perspective is global, with studies from Australia, on American archaeology, South-east Asia, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Southern France, and Turkey.
Peopled Landscapes
DOWNLOAD
Author : Simon Haberle
language : en
Publisher: ANU E Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Peopled Landscapes written by Simon Haberle and has been published by ANU E Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Science categories.
"This volume brings together a collection of papers from a diverse field of international scholars exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance. The work is explicitly comparative and highlights the different ways Timorese language communities negotiate access and transactions in land, disputes and inheritance especially in areas subject to historical displacement and resettlement. Consideration is extended to the role of ritual performance and social alliance for inscribing connection and entitlement. Emerging through analysis is an appreciation of how relations to land, articulated in origin discourses, are implicated in the construction of national culture and differential contributions to the struggle for independence."--Publisher's description.