Pleistocene human remains from Australia: A living site and human cremation from Lake Mungo, western New South Wales

Megafaunal extinction in the late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis

“…All Pleistocene stone tool assemblages in Australia were described as the 'Core Tool and Scraper Tradition' by Bowler et al (1970). Recently, regional variations have been identified, as in Tasmania (Allen 1996, Hiscock & Allen 2000.…”

Wind v water: Glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes

“…These details were accumulated by RG from a range of published (including Bowler et al 1970;Clark 1987;Gillespie 1997;Kalish et al 1997;Bowler 1998;Johnston and Clark 1998;Boljkovac 2009) and unpublished sources, brought together for the first time in the context of specific basin origin. Some samples are from controlled archaeological excavations, for example by Harry Allen and Wilfred Shawcross; many others were collected from the surface of actively eroding lunettes.…”

“…Questions of age, although of great importance, frequently remain difficult to assess because age estimates are constrained by limitations resulting from difficulties in field settings, and analytical constraints often with inevitably large errors (Bowler et al 1970;Gillespie 1997;Bowler 1998). The application of radiocarbon dating to organic carbon remains frequently failed to provide consistent and reliable results, whereas dating freshwater mussel-shell carbonate proved much more reliable (Bowler 1998;Gillespie 1998).…”

Interpretation of archaeological material eroded from coastal dune sites

“…While the body of this paper concerns the subject of coastal sand dunes, the principles outlined here have direct relevance to inland dune systems, and attention is drawn to the recent work of Bowler et al (1970) on the Lake Mungo dune system.…”