Acknowledgements

Introduction

Science, landscape, heritage and the uses of the deep past

Part One

‘Like a precious cameo’: Hallett Cove, geological heritage and the glaciological imagination

Treading on classic ground

Chapter 1

Preservation and change in an ‘outdoor museum’: a modern diorama

Chapter 2

‘Bent upon covering the whole continent with ice’: glacial studies in the nineteenth century

Chapter 3

The Battle for Hallett Cove

Hallett Cove and geological knowledge

Part Two

Dirt, bones and the Diprotodons of Lake Callabonna: discovering the lost worlds of vertebrate palaeontology

1892

Chapter 4

The lost worlds of Lake Callabonna, 160 000 000 BP – 1970

Chapter 5

‘A world previous to ours’, 1795–1892

Chapter 6

Finding Lake Callabonna, 1892–1901

Chapter 7

Finding Lake Callabonna again, 1913–1970

Skeletons in the cabinet and the lost world of Lake Callabonna

Part Three

Lake Mungo, human antiquity and the watered inland: reading the scripture of the landscape

Beginnings

Chapter 8

Arid glaciation and the land of lakes

Chapter 9

Human antiquity and the scripture of the landscape

‘The desired future’

Afterword. Quaternary science, landscape and the deep human past

Endnotes

References

Index