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Australia's human prehistory through more than 40,000 years is the challenging theme of this masterly survey. John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga bring together the discoveries and often controversial interpretations of six decades of archaeological research to reveal that across this island continent, in the face of contrasting environments and changing climates, human responses produced many cultures, languages and life styles. The Old World is usually credited with the origins of art and spirituality. Recent discoveries, however, prove that symbolic rock art and complex burial rites also existed in Australia at challengingly early times. The authors evaluate the dating evidence upon which Australia's human story before 1788 is reconstructed. They review diverse topics, such as the controversy about the time people first arrived on the continent's northern coast, the extinction of marsupial megafauna and the diversity of Aboriginal rock art. Prehistory of Australia explains why Aboriginal Australia is recognised today for its significance in global prehistory and why so many of its archaeological places have merited World Heritage listing.
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Australia's human prehistory through more than 40,000 years is the theme of this survey. The authors bring together the discoveries and often controversial interpretations of six decades of archaeological research to reveal that across the continent, human responses produced many cultures, languages and life-styles. The Old World is usually credited with the origins of art and spirituality. Discoveries, however, have suggested that symbolic rock art and complex burial rites also existed in Australia at challengingly early times. The authors evaluate the dating evidence upon which Australia's human story before 1788 is reconstructed. They review diverse topics, such as the controversy about the time people first arrived on the continent's northern coast, the extinction of marsupial megafauna and the diversity of Aboriginal rock art. The text seeks to explain why Aboriginal Australia has come to be recognized for its significance in global prehistory and why so many of its archaeological places have merited World Heritage listing.
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JOHN MULVANEY is the founder of Australian archaeology, a frequent media commentator on current issues and the only living Australian public intellectual to have had a book entirely devoted to his work. After 40 years of university teaching and advising governments, he remains a highly respected yet controversial activist. JOHAN KAMMINGA is a consultant archaeologist, chosen by Mulvaney to assist him in surveying the last three decades of discovery.
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- PublisherPenguin Books Australia
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0140217738
- ISBN 13 9780140217735
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages327
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Book Description Revised ed. Paperback wide trade, good condition, black & white photos, maps, spine little creased, pages lightly toned, spine edges slightly rubbed, crease cover joins to spine, light toning inside covers, light foxing edges, minor edgewear. 327 pp. A pioneering prehistory of Australia up until 1788 by D. J. Mulvaney. Separate chapters cover protohistory (pre-European contacts), eg, Macassan (Makassan) trepangers (sea cucumber harvesting), landscape and people, Aboriginal ethnohistory, archeological prehistory, Aboriginal origins, and Aboriginal archeological relics. In this new and revised edition, Professor Mulvaney has synthesized the results of this recent research. This is a coherent and systematic account of the progress of Aboriginal culture from its beginnings to the first European contact. Seller Inventory # 31023
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