Strategies for investigating human responses to changes in landscape and climate at lake mungo in the Willandra Lakes, Southeast Australia

Archaeology in Environment and Technology: Intersections and Transformations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 31-50

  Stern, Nicola ^a   Tumney, Jacqueline ^a   Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E ^b   Kajewski, Paul ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884755265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203508947     Document Type: Chapter

References (38)

1. Allen, H. 1972. Where the crow flies backwards: man and land in the Darling Basin. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Australian National University.
2. Allen, H. 1974. The Bagundji of the Darling Basin: cereal gatherers in an uncertain environment. World Archaeology 5: 309-22.
3. Allen, H. 1998. Reinterpreting the 1969-1972 Willandra Lakes archaeological surveys. Archaeology in Oceania 33: 207-20.
4. Allen, H. & S. Holdaway. 2009. The archaeology of Mungo and the Willandra Lakes: Looking back, looking forward. Archaeology in Oceania 44: 96-106. Bailey, G.N. 1983. Concepts of time in Quaternary prehistory. Annual Review of Anthropology 12: 165-92.
5. Bailey, G.N. 2007. Time perspectives, palimpsests and the archaeology of time. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26: 198-223.
6. Behrensmeyer, A.K. & D. Schindel. 1983. Resolving time in paleobiology. Paleobiology 9: 1-8.
7. Binford, L.R. 1981. Behavioural archeology and the ‘Pompeii premise.’ Journal of Anthropological Research 37: 195-208.
8. Bird, D. & J.F. O’Connell. 2006. Behavioral ecology and archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 14: 143-88.
9. Bowler, J.M. 1971. Pleistocene salinities and climatic change: evidence from lakes and lunettes in southeastern Australia, in D.J. Mulvaney & J. Golson (ed.) Aboriginal man and environment in Australia: 47-65. Canberra: Australian National University Press.
10. Bowler, J.M. 1973. Clay dunes: their occurrence, formation and environmental significance. Earth Science Reviews 9: 315-38.
11. Bowler, J.M. 1998. Willandra Lakes revisited: environmental framework for human occupation. Archaeology in Oceania 33: 120-55.
12. Bowler, J.M., R. Gillespie, H. Johnston & K. Boljkovac. 2012. Wind v water: glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes, in S.G. Haberle & B. David (ed.) Peopled landscapes: archaeological and biographic approaches to landscapes: 271-96. Terra Australis 34. Canberra: Australian National University.
13. Bowler, J.M., H. Johnston, J.M. Olley, J.R. Prescott, R.G. Roberts, W. Shawcross & N.A. Spooner. 2003. New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia. Nature 421: 837-40.
14. Bowler, J.M., R. Jones, H. Allen & A.G. Thorne. 1970. Pleistocene human remains from Australia: a living site and human cremation from Lake Mungo, western New South Wales. World Archaeology 2: 39-60.
15. Bowler, J.M. & J. Magee. 1978. Geomorphology of the Mallee region in semi-arid northern Victoria and western New South Wales. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 90: 5-25.
16. Bowler, J.M. & D.M. Price. 1998. Luminescence dates and stratigraphic analyses at Lake Mungo: review and new perspectives. Archaeology in Oceania 33: 156-68.
17. Dare-Edwards, A.J. 1979. Late Quaternary Soils on Clay Dunes of the Willandra Lakes, Unpublished PhD dissertation, Australian National University.
18. Foley, R. 1981. A model of regional archaeological structure. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 47: 1-7.
19. Gillespie, R. 1998. Alternative timescales: a critical review of Willandra Lakes dating. Archaeology in Oceania 33: 169-82.
20. Holdaway, S.J. & P. Fanning. 2010. Geoarchaeology in Australia: understanding human-environment interactions, in P. Bishop & B. Pillans (ed.) Australian landscapes. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 346: 71-85.
21. Holdaway, S.J., P. Fanning & E.J. Rhodes. 2008. Assemblage accumulation as a time-dependent process in the arid zone of western New South Wales, Australia, in S. Holdaway, & L. Wandsnider (ed.) Time in archaeology: time perspectivism revisited: 110-33. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press.
22. Holdaway, S.J., P. Fanning, E.J. Rhode, S.K. Marx, B. Floyd & M.J. Douglass. 2010. Human response to palaeoenvironmental change and the question of temporal scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatoloty, Palaeoecology 292: 192-200.
23. Johnston, H. 1993. Pleistocene shell middens of the Willandra Lakes, in M.A. Smith, M. Spriggs & B. Fankhauser (ed.) Sahul in review: Pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia: 197-203. Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies. Canberra: Australian National University.
24. Johnston, H. & P. Clark. 1998. Willandra Lakes archaeological investigations 1968-98. Archaeology in Oceania 33: 105-19.
25. Kemp, J. & E. Rhodes. 2010. Episodic fluvial activity of inland rivers in southeastern Australia: palaeochannel systems and terraces of the Lachlan River. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 732-52.
26. King, A.J., Z. Tonkin & J. Mahoney. 2009. Environmental flow enhances native fish spawning and recruitment in the Murray River, Australia. River Research and Applications 25: 1205-18.
27. Massey, D. 1999. Space-time ‘science’ and the relationship between physical geography and human geography. Transactions of the British Institute of Geography NS 24: 261-76.
28. Muhlen-Schulte, R. 1985. Mungo rocks. A technological analysis of stone assemblages from Lake Mungo. Unpublished BA honours thesis, Australian National University.
29. Mulvaney, D.J. & J.M. Bowler. 1981. Lake Mungo and the Willandra Lakes, in The heritage of Australia: the illustrated register of the national estate: 180-83. Sydney: Macmillan.
30. Mulvaney, D. J. & J. Kamminga. 1999. Prehistory of Australia. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
31. Robertson, A.I., S.E. Bunn, F. Walker & I. Boon. 1999. Sources, sinks and transformations of organic carbon in Australia flood plain rivers. Marine and Freshwater Research 50: 813-29.
32. Scholz, O., B. Gawne, B. Ebner & I. Ellis. 2002. The effects of drying and re-flooding on nutrient availability in ephemeral deflation basin lakes in western New South Wales. River Research and its Applications 18: 185-96.
33. Shiner, J. 2008. Place as occupational histories: an investigation of the deflated surface archaeological record of Pine Point and Langwell Stations, Western New South Wales, Australia. BAR International Series 1763. Oxford: Archaeopress.
34. Smith, M.A., A.N. Williams, C.S.M. Turney & M.I. Cupper. 2008. Human-environment interactions in Australian drylands: exploratory time-series analysis of archaeological records. The Holocene 18: 389-401.
35. Stern, N. 1993. The structure of the Lower Pleistocene archaeological record: a case study from the Koobi Fora Formation in northwest Kenya. Current Anthropology 34: 201-25.
36. Stern, N. 2008. Stratigraphy, depositional environments and palaeolandscape reconstruction in landscape archaeology, in B. David & J. Thomas (ed.) Handbook of landscape archaeology: 365-78. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
37. Tumney, J. 2011. Environment, landscape and stone technology at Lake Mungo, southwest New South Wales, Australia. Unpublished PhD dissertation, La Trobe University.
38. Webb, J. & M. Domanski. 2008. The relationship between lithology, flaking properties and artefact manufacture for Australian silcrete. Archaeometry 50: 555-75.