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Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
Investigates the two main theories of how and where humans evolved.
This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through the Indo-Malay Archipelago in the 1850s, was the first to draw attention to the group. The results reveal a complex and fascinating history covering the last 30,000 years from its early settlement by hunter-gatherers, the late Holocene arrival of ceramic producing agriculturalists, later associations with the Bird of Paradise trade and the colonial expansion of the Dutch trading empires. The excavations ...
Two prehistoric cave sites on the Bird's Head of western New Guinea provide a detailed narrative of 26,000 years of human occupation of this area. During Late Pleistocene times, lower temperatures allowed a suite of montane animal species to descend onto the lowland Ayamaru Plateau. When the montane fauna receded during the subsequent climatic amelioration, people switched their hunting focus to a forest wallaby, known locally as Djief. Detailed analysis of this species' remains, including the reconstruction of their age profile, provides insights into why prolonged hunting of this species did not lead to its extinction. The wallaby population evidently thrived at its demographic maximum thr...
During the last 100 years infant mortality rates have improved dramatically, yet even in a developed country such as Australia the physical health of infants varies greatly, despite advances in science and technology. It has now become clear that emotional and physical development is affected by many different variables. Not only must physical development and health support be adequate, but the presence of factors such as good-enough parenting, and the absence of others such as substance abuse and domestic violence, are now becoming better understood. So how best to work with families where infants are at risk? This is the substance of this book: to understand how to achieve improved outcome...
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Description and analysis of 33 individuals from Coobool Creek, N.S.W.; metrical techniques and comparison with other samples; suggests a distinct Coobool Creek/ Kow Swamp morphology associated with large size and artificial cranial deformation dated to the terminal Pleistocene; evidence for post Pleistocene reduction in size and robustness in the Murray Valley; osteological analysis; dentition; palaeodemography; palaeopathology.
A history of the role of biological theories in the construction and "protection" of whiteness in Australia from the first European settlement through World War II.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.