Aridity and settlement in northwest Australia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|69|265|733-746

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.69, Iss.265, 1995-09, pp. : 733-746

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Abstract

An element in the changing pattern of Australian archaeology has been the filling-in of great blanks on the archaeological map, once survey and excavation has begun to explore them. The dry lands of the great central and western deserts of Australia, a hard place for humans to this day, have in the last couple of decades come to find a large place in the transitional story.