Life on the Margins
The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeologi...
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| description | The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address the issue of how much change and variability occurred in hunter-gatherer economic and social structures during the late Holocene in coastal northeastern Arnhem Land. The suggestion proposed here is that processes of environmental and climatic change resulted in changes in resource distribution and abundance, which in turn affected patterns of settlement and resource exploitation strategies, levels of mobility and, potentially, the size of foraging groups on the coast. The question of human behavioural variability over the last 3000 years in Blue Mud Bay has been addressed by examining issues of scale and resolution in archaeological interpretation, specifically the differential chronological and spatial patterning of shell midden and mound sites on the peninsula in conjunction with variability in molluscan resource exploitation. To this end, the biological and ecological characteristics of the dominant molluscan species is considered in detail, in combination with assessing the potential for human impact through predation. Investigating pre-contact coastal foraging behaviour via the archaeological record provides an opportunity for change to recognised in a number of ways. For example, a differential focus on resources, variations in group size and levels of mobility can all be identified. It has also been shown that human-environment interactions are non-linear or progressive, and that human behaviour during the late Holocene was both flexible and dynamic. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-356512025-01-26T18:12:51Z Life on the Margins Faulkner, Patrick northern australia archaeology change climate environment Before Present Blue Mud Bay Habitat Holocene Mangrove Midden Species richness Tegillarca granosa Terra Australis thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology The research presented here is primarily concerned with human-environment interactions on the tropical coast of northern Australia during the late Holocene. Based on the suggestion that significant change can occur within short time-frames as a direct result of interactive processes, the archaeological evidence from the Point Blane Peninsula, Blue Mud Bay, is used to address the issue of how much change and variability occurred in hunter-gatherer economic and social structures during the late Holocene in coastal northeastern Arnhem Land. The suggestion proposed here is that processes of environmental and climatic change resulted in changes in resource distribution and abundance, which in turn affected patterns of settlement and resource exploitation strategies, levels of mobility and, potentially, the size of foraging groups on the coast. The question of human behavioural variability over the last 3000 years in Blue Mud Bay has been addressed by examining issues of scale and resolution in archaeological interpretation, specifically the differential chronological and spatial patterning of shell midden and mound sites on the peninsula in conjunction with variability in molluscan resource exploitation. To this end, the biological and ecological characteristics of the dominant molluscan species is considered in detail, in combination with assessing the potential for human impact through predation. Investigating pre-contact coastal foraging behaviour via the archaeological record provides an opportunity for change to recognised in a number of ways. For example, a differential focus on resources, variations in group size and levels of mobility can all be identified. It has also been shown that human-environment interactions are non-linear or progressive, and that human behaviour during the late Holocene was both flexible and dynamic. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2014-01-06 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:49:08Z 2013 book 462764 OCN: 850906221 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33506 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35651 eng bfac9bd7-ddb4-4d0d-be8c-6fe75166ce82 Terra Australis open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33506/1/462764.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33506/1/462764.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/33506/1/462764.pdf ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_462764 10.26530/OAPEN_462764 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 216 Canberra open access |
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| topic | northern australia archaeology change climate environment Before Present Blue Mud Bay Habitat Holocene Mangrove Midden Species richness Tegillarca granosa Terra Australis thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology |
| topic_facet | northern australia archaeology change climate environment Before Present Blue Mud Bay Habitat Holocene Mangrove Midden Species richness Tegillarca granosa Terra Australis thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology |
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