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TheSocial ArchaeologyofAustralian Indigenous Societies

Edited by Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J McNiven

First published in 2006
by Aboriginal Studies Press

Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J McNiven

in individual chapters remains with the authors

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Aboriginal Studies Press is the publishing arm of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-In-Publication data:
David, Bruno, 1962 .
The social archaeology of Australian indigenous societies.
Bibliography.
Includes index.
ISBN 0 85575 499 0.
ISBN 978 0 85575 557 7 (ebook PDF).
1. Aboriginal Australians/Social life and customs. 2. Social archaeology/Australia. 3. Australia/Antiquities. I. Barker, Bryce. II. McNiven, Ian. III. Title.
305.89915

Printed in Australia by Ligare Pty Ltd

Front cover photograph: Cygnet Repu of Mabuyag island, Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), painting a Kaigas (shovelnosed shark), his maternal totem (awgadh), at Puluw Kod in 2001. Kind permission from Cygnet Repu to reproduce the photo. Photo courtesy of Ian J McNiven.

Cover design by Phil Scamp, Arts Imaging, Monash University

This book is dedicated to Harry Lourandos,
who paved the way to a social archaeology of Indigenous Australia.

Contents

Ian J McNiven,Bruno DavidandBryce Barker

Harry Lourandos,Bruno David,Bryce BarkerandIan J McNiven

Sandra Bowdler

Bruno DavidandTim Denham

Bryce Barker

Ian J McNiven

Deborah Brian

Luke GodwinandJames F Weiner

Marcia Langton

John J Bradley

Amanda KearneyandJohn J Bradley

Franca TamisariandJames Wallace

F Donald Pate

Peter Veth

John Tibby,A Peter Kershaw,Heather Builth,Aline PhilibertandChristopher White

Cassandra Rowe

Melissa Carter

Barbara Bender

Figures and tables

Figures

Chapter 2 An interview with Harry Lourandos
Figure 1.	Harry Lourandos (right) and Rhys Jones (left) excavating at Rocky Cape South cave in 1965 (photo courtesy of Harry Lourandos)
Chapter 3 Harry Lourandos life and work: an Australian archaeological odyssey
Figure 1.	Harry Lourandos at Mount Cameron West in 1969 (photo courtesy of Harry Lourandos).
Chapter 10 The social, economic and historical construction of cycad palms among the Yanyuwa
Figure 1.	The study area
Chapter 13 Hunter-gatherer social complexity at Roonka, South Australia
Figure 1.	Map showing location of the Roonka Flat archaeological site, lower Murray River, South Australia
Figure 2.	Map showing location of larger Aboriginal burial sites (more than twenty individuals) in the Murray-Darling river system, south-eastern Australia (after Littleton 1999)
Chapter 14 Social dynamism in the archaeology of the Western Desert
Figure 1.	Location of key sites discussed in the text lying within the Western Desert and arid margins
Chapter 15 Environmental change and variability in south-western Victoria
Figure 1.	Lake Surprise and its immediate catchment
Figure 2.	Location of Lake Surprise, Mt Eccles
Figure 3.	Agedepth curve for the Lake Surprise sediments
Figure 4.	Lake Surprise environmental sequences
Chapter 16 Landscapes in western Torres Strait history
Figure 1.	Torres Strait showing major island groups
Figure 2.	Badu 15
Figure 3.	Archaeological site Badu 15 pollen percentage diagram plotted against depth and age
Figure 4.	Multi-dimensional Scaling (MDS) ordination in two dimensions for combined pollen and spore presence/absence data set (stress = 0.2)
Chapter 17 North of the Cape and south of the Fly
Figure 1.	The Torres Strait with, inset, the eastern islands of Mer, Dauar and Waier (after McNiven & Feldman 2003)
Figure 2.	Ethnohistorically recorded clan divisions on Mer Island and the location of stone walled fish traps (after Haddon 1908, p. 170)

Tables

Chapter 4 Unpacking Australian prehistory
Table 1.	Prejudicial homologues used in the interpretation of Australian Aboriginal and New Guinean cultures
Table 2.	Gradients of prejudice often implicit to the interpretation of hunter-gatherers in Australia and agriculturalists in New Guinea, reflecting nineteenth-century evolutionary thinking
Table 3.	Geographical and historical prejudices implicit to the interpretation of Australian and New Guinean places and peoples

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