Challenging intensification: Human-environment interactions in the Holocene geoarchaeological record from western New South Wales, Australia

Holocene

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 403-412

  Holdaway, Simon ^a   Fanning, Patricia ^b   Rhodes, Ed ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeological material; Australia; Dating; Human environment interaction; Hunter gatherers; Intensification theory; Late holocene; New South Wales

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION GROWTH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 43449128432     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607087930     Document Type: Review

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