The Social Dynamics of Aggregation and Dispersal in the Western Desert

A Companion to Rock Art

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 90-102

  Mcdonald, Jo ^a   Veth, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ANU   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaeological implications, testing aggregation behavior and rock art; Australian arid zone, extensive dune fields, gibber and sand plains; Information exchange theory, and competition between groups; Linguistic stratigraphy, Holocene population change movement; Notions of style as a social strategy, groups over resources; Social groupings, more complex in the vicinity of water permanency; The social dynamics, of aggregation and dispersal in the Western Desert; Western Desert rock art province, the Jilakurru Ranges and the Martu

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887207141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118253892.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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