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Author:   Simon G. Haberle ,  Bruno David ,  Dwight Alexander
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
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9781921862717

ISBN 10:   1921862718
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   01 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction Peopled landscapes: The impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian Quaternary science - Bruno David, Simon G. Haberle and Donald Walker I. Archaeology and Perceptions of Landscape Hay Cave: A 30,000-year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland, Australia - Harry Lourandos, Bruno David, Nicola Roche, Cassandra Rowe, Angela Holden and Simon J. Clarke An early-Holocene Aboriginal coastal landscape at Cape Duquesne, southwest Victoria, Australia - Thomas Richards Aboriginal exploitation of toxic nuts as a late-Holocene subsistence strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests - Asa Ferrier and Richard Cosgrove Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast - Ian J. McNiven, Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Jerome Mialanes, Brit Asmussen, Sean Ulm, Patrick Faulkner, Cassandra Rowe and Thomas Richards 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 - Bryce Barker, Lara Lamb, Bruno David, Kenneth Korokai, Alois Kuaso and Joanne Bowman Cranial metric, age and isotope analysis of human remains from Huoshiliang, western Gansu, China - John Dodson, Fiona Bertuch, Liang Chen and Xiaoqiang Li Not for the squeamish: A new microfossil indicator for the presence of humans - Mike Macphail, Mary Casey and Matthew Kelly Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate - Christian A. Kull and Haripriya Rangan Nature, culture and time: Contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skane, southern Sweden - Lesley Head and Joachim Regnell II. Biogeography and Palaeoecology The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: A Southern Hemisphere climatic connection - Marie-Pierre Ledru and Janelle Stevenson When did the mistletoe family Loranthaceae become extinct in Tasmania? Review and conjecture - Mike Macphail, Greg Jordan, Feli Hopf and Eric Colhoun Wind v water: Glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes - Jim M. Bowler, Richard Gillespie, Harvey Johnston and Katarina Boljkovac Late-Quaternary vegetation history of Tasmania from pollen records - Eric A. Colhoun and Peter W. Shimeld Holocene environments of the sclerophyll woodlands of the Wet Tropics of northeastern Australia - Patrick T. Moss, Richard Cosgrove, Asa Ferrier and Simon G. Haberle Holocene vegetation change at treeline, Cropp Valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand - Matt S. McGlone and Les Basher Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in Lake Purrumbete, western Victoria - John Tibby, Dan Penny, Paul Leahy and A. Peter Kershaw Fire on the mountain: A multi-scale, multi-proxy assessment of the resilience of cool temperate rainforest to fire in Victoria's Central Highlands - Patrick J. Baker, Rohan Simkin, Nina Pappas, Alex McLeod and Merna McKenzie Multi-disciplinary investigation of 19th century European settlement of the Willunga Plains, South Australia - Tim Denham, Carol Lentfer, Ellen Stuart, Sophia Bickford and Cameron Barr Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: Exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity - Cassandra Rowe Surface 13C in Australia: A quantified measure of annual precipitation? - Chris S.M. Turney Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland condition - Peter Gell Regional genetic differentiation in the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus Gould) - Samantha Fox, Michelle Waycott, David Blair and Jon Luly

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