Desert Archaeology, Linguistic Stratigraphy, and the Spread of the Western Desert Language

Smith, Michael

doi:10.1002/9780470774632.ch12

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“…Fieldwork projects along the Norman River, Gregory River, and Lawn Hill (Hiscock, 1988;Cosgrove et al, 2007;Slack et al, 2004;Slack, 2007;Wallis et al, 2009) have all demonstrated the refugia qualities of the Gulf Plains/Einasleigh Uplands previously, a finding now supported statistically here. It is interesting to note that the Pama-Nyungan language is argued to have expanded from this region in the early Holocene shortly after this long period of stability (McConvell, 1996;Smith, 2005). The importance of the Brigalow Belt South most likely stems from its location on the headwaters of parts of the Murray Darling river system and its encompassment of the Fitzroy River catchment.…”

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Human refugia in Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Terminal Pleistocene: a geospatial analysis of the 25–12 ka Australian archaeological record

Williams

Ulm

Cook

et al. 2013

Journal of Archaeological Science

103

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A number of models, developed primarily in the 1980s, propose that Aboriginal Australian populations contracted to refugia -well-watered ranges and major riverine systems -in response to climatic instability, most notably around the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (~23-18ka). We evaluate these models using a comprehensive continent-wide dataset of archaeological radiocarbon ages and geospatial techniques. Calibrated median radiocarbon ages are allocated to over-lapping time slices, and then K-means cluster analysis and cluster centroid and point dispersal pattern analysis are used to define Minimum Bounding Rectangles (MBR) representing human demographic patterns. Exploring data between 25-12ka, we find a refugia-type hunter-gatherer response during the LGM (~23-18ka) and again during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) (~14.5-12.5ka), with expansion in the intervening period. Several refugia persist between 25-12ka, including (by Interim Biogeographic

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Human refugia in Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Terminal Pleistocene: a geospatial analysis of the 25–12 ka Australian archaeological record

Williams

Ulm

Cook

et al. 2013

Journal of Archaeological Science

103

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“…Particularly interesting examples involve populations with similar subsistence economies and technologies (e.g., Moratto, 1984, pp. 529-574;Smith, 2004). The key questions are how the invaders manage to displace residents and why the latter fail to prevent the formers' advance, say by adopting some version of the invaders' own tactics.…”

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Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology

2006

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Behavioral ecology is the study of adaptive behavior in relation to social and environmental circumstances. Analysts working from this perspective hold that the reproductive strategies and decision-making capacities of all living organisms-including humans-are shaped by natural selection. Archaeologists have been using this proposition in the study of past human behavior for more than 30 years. Significant insights on variation in prehistoric human subsistence, life history, social organization, and their respective fossil and archaeological consequences have been among the more important results.

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“…Specialised seed grinding and Nyungic language dispersals in the arid/semiarid zone date to the last 3500 years BP (David 2002: Chap. 8;McConvell 1996;Smith 2005;Veth 2000). More specifically in terms of coastal use, 3500 BP marks a major change in midden mound formation across various parts of northern Australia (O'Connor 1999;Veitch 1999).…”

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Mask Cave: Red‐slipped pottery and the Australian‐Papuan settlement of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait)

McNiven

Dickinson

David

et al. 2006

Archaeology in Oceania

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Desert Archaeology, Linguistic Stratigraphy, and the Spread of the Western Desert Language

Cited by 94 publications

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Human refugia in Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Terminal Pleistocene: a geospatial analysis of the 25–12 ka Australian archaeological record

Human refugia in Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Terminal Pleistocene: a geospatial analysis of the 25–12 ka Australian archaeological record

Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology

Mask Cave: Red‐slipped pottery and the Australian‐Papuan settlement of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait)

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