Environmental history of northwest Australia based on phytolith analysis at Carpenter's Gap 1

Wallis, Lynley A.

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(01)00033-7

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“…In general, the results of the wood charcoal study provide support for the interpretations made by Wallis (2000Wallis ( , 2001 about the vegetation history of the locality around Carpenter's Gap, and challenge some of the earlier assertions made by McConnell and O'Connor (1997). McConnell and O'Connor (1997) interpreted the macrobotanic record as a direct reflection of the surrounding vegetation and paid little regard to the influence of human agency.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…McConnell and O'Connor (1997) noted the small quantity of macrobotanic remains in the earliest levels of Carpenter's Gap 1 and argued that this indicated a lack of preservation with age. This would appear to be corroborated by Wallis's (2000Wallis's ( , 2001) study of the phytoliths from the site, which revealed a wider range of plants in the earliest phytolith record than occurs in the macrobotanical record, presumably as a direct outcome of the breakdown of the macrobotanics in the lower spits. While poor preservation would account for the small quantity of charcoal in the lower levels ( Figure 6) and mitigate against the survival of some species, the charcoals sampled by Frawley (2010) were well preserved, indicating that the wood charcoal in these lower levels may not have significantly deteriorated over time.…”

Section: 000 Bp To 30000 Bpmentioning

confidence: 53%

“…In 2000, Wallis (2000Wallis ( , 2001) made a major study of the phytolith assemblage from Carpenter's Gap 1 for her PhD dissertation. In constructing a modern reference collection, Wallis (2000:151) found that many of the modern tree and shrub plant samples produced no, or limited, phytoliths and hence would not be expected to be represented in the Carpenter's Gap assemblage.…”

Section: Previous Palaeobotanical Studies At Carpenter's Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even at the height of the dry season it is not necessary to travel to the Lennard River to obtain a small quantity of freshwater. However, the drier conditions during the LGM may have led to the loss of local seepages and necessitated greater mobility to acquire water (Wallis 2001). People bringing water from the Lennard River may have covered their water containers with sedges, or brought back sedge stems with the bulbs.…”

Section: Previous Palaeobotanical Studies At Carpenter's Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These species are recorded at the site only for the period between about 30,000 BP and the terminal Pleistocene, during which time they dominate the record (McConnell and O'Connor 1997:29). Cyperaceae sedges also occur in both the macrobotanic and phytolith record from the earliest levels and increase in abundance in layers corresponding with greatest aridity, being found in quantity in levels dated between 30,000 BP and 17,000 BP (McConnell and O'Connor 1997:23;Wallis 2000Wallis , 2001. While the presence of wet-environment-associated species at the time of greatest aridity may seem anomalous, a likely explanation can be found in changing human mobility.…”

Section: 000 Bp To 20000 Bpmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Section: Resultssupporting

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Section: 000 Bp To 30000 Bpmentioning

confidence: 53%

Section: Previous Palaeobotanical Studies At Carpenter's Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Palaeobotanical Studies At Carpenter's Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: 000 Bp To 20000 Bpmentioning

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