[Aqualist] Terra Australis 24

[Sean Ulm]

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Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland

 

Sean Ulm

 

Coastal archaeology in Australia differs in many respects from that of
other areas, with the potential to examine relatively fine-scale
variation. Nevertheless, there has been a general tendency in Australian
archaeology to play down the variability and to subsume the evidence
into broader homogenising models of Aboriginal cultural change. This
case study clearly and self-consciously addresses the need to focus on
local and regional patterns before moving on to more general levels of
explanation. 

 

Coastal Themes builds a detailed chronology of Aboriginal occupation for
the southern Curtis Coast in Queensland. Innovative analyses refine
radiocarbon dates and explore discard behaviours and post-depositional
processes affecting the integrity of coastal archaeological sites. The
resulting insights highlight major changes in Aboriginal use of this
region over the last 5,000 years and disjunctions between the course of
occupation in this and adjacent regions.

 

ISBN 1 920942 93 9 (Print version) $49.50 (GST inclusive)

ISBN 1 920942 96 3 (Online)

 

First published December 2006

 

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