Peopled Landscapes (Terra Australis 34) : Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes / / Simon G. Haberle, Bruno David

• Autore: Haberle Simon G.
• Pubblicazione: Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (472 pages)
• Disciplina: 333.72099
• Soggetto topico: Nature - Effect of human beings on
• Persona (resp. second.): DavidBruno
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter (pp. [i]-[iv]) -- Table of Contents (pp. [v]-[viii]) -- Introduction -- I. Archaeology and Perceptions of Landscape -- 2 Hay Cave: A 30,000-year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland, Australia (pp. 27-64) -- 3 An early-Holocene Aboriginal coastal landscape at Cape Duquesne, southwest Victoria, Australia (pp. 65-102) -- 4 Aboriginal exploitation of toxic nuts as a late-Holocene subsistence strategy in Australiaʹs tropical rainforests (pp. 103-120) -- 5 Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast (pp. 121-156) -- 6 Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: Modelling the historical emergence of Kerewo regional polities on the island of Goaribari, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea (pp. 157-176) -- 7 Cranial metric, age and isotope analysis of human remains from Huoshiliang, western Gansu, China (pp. 177-192) -- 8 Not for the squeamish: A new microfossil indicator for the presence of humans (pp. 193-196) -- 9 Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate (pp. 197-220) -- 10 Nature, culture and time: Contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden (pp. 221-238) -- II. Biogeography and Palaeoecology -- 11 The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: A Southern Hemisphere climatic connection (pp. 241-254) -- 12 When did the mistletoe family Loranthaceae become extinct in Tasmania? Review and conjecture (pp. 255-270) -- 13 Wind v water: Glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes (pp. 271-296) -- 13 Wind v water: Glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes (pp. 271-296) -- 14 Late-Quaternary vegetation history of Tasmania from pollen records (pp. 297-328) -- 15 Holocene environments of the sclerophyll woodlands of the Wet Tropics of northeastern Australia (pp. 329-342) -- 16 Holocene vegetation change at treeline, Cropp Valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand (pp. 343-358) -- 17 Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in Lake Purrumbete, western Victoria (pp. 359-374) -- 18 Fire on the mountain: A multi-scale, multi-proxy assessment of the resilience of cool temperate rainforest to fire in Victoriaʹs Central Highlands (pp. 375-392) -- 19 Multi-disciplinary investigation of 19th century European settlement of the Willunga Plains, South Australia (pp. 393-412) -- 20 Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: Exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity (pp. 413-434) -- 21 Surface ∂13C in Australia: A quantified measure of annual precipitation? (pp. 435-444) -- 22 Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland condition (pp. 445-458) -- 23 Regional genetic differentiation in the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus Gould) (pp. 459-472).
• Sommario/riassunto: This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, creating a detailed understanding of environmental change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Within a biogeographic framework one of his exceptional contributions was to explore the ways that Aboriginal people may have modified the landscape through the effects of anthropogenic burning. These ideas have had significant impacts on thinking within the fields of geomorphology, biogeography, archaeology, anthropology and history. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the contribution of humans to those transformations. The volume is structured in two sections. The first examines evidence for human engagement with landscape, focusing on Australia and Papua New Guinea but also dealing with the human/environmental histories of Europe and Asia. The second section contains papers that examine palaeoecology and present some of the latest research into environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. Individually these papers, written by many of Australia's prominent researchers in these fields, are significant contributions to our knowledge of Quaternary landscapes and human land use. But Peopled Landscapes also signifies the disciplinary entanglement that is archaeological and biogeographic research in this region, with archaeologists and environmental scientists contributing to both studies of human land use and palaeoecology. Peopled Landscapes reveals the interdisciplinary richness of Quaternary research in the Australasian region as well as the complexity and richness of the entangled environmental and human pasts of these lands.
• Altri titoli varianti: Peopled Landscapes
• Titolo autorizzato: Peopled Landscapes (Terra Australis 34)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476989103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II