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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.05.002
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85019441782
论文题名:
Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia
作者: Veth P.; Ward I.; Manne T.; Ulm S.; Ditchfield K.; Dortch J.; Hook F.; Petchey F.; Hogg A.; Questiaux D.; Demuro M.; Arnold L.; Spooner N.; Levchenko V.; Skippington J.; Byrne C.; Basgall M.; Zeanah D.; Belton D.; Helmholz P.; Bajkan S.; Bailey R.; Placzek C.; Kendrick P.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2017
卷: 168
起始页码: 19
结束页码: 29
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Coastal deserts ; Colonisation ; Island Archaeology ; Marine resources ; Maritime deserts ; North-West Shelf of Australia
Scopus关键词: Animals ; Arid regions ; Caves ; Charcoal ; Deposits ; History ; Landforms ; Marine biology ; Natural resources ; Oceanography ; Sea level ; Sedimentology ; Coastal deserts ; Colonisation ; Island Archaeology ; Marine resources ; Maritime deserts ; North west shelf of australia ; Employment ; archaeology ; cave ; coastal plain ; colonization ; desert ; interdisciplinary approach ; island ; Last Glacial Maximum ; limestone ; marine resource ; Pleistocene ; sedimentology ; shelf dynamics ; Africa ; Australia ; Barrow Island ; Western Australia
英文摘要: Archaeological deposits from Boodie Cave on Barrow Island, northwest Australia, reveal some of the oldest evidence for Aboriginal occupation of Australia, as well as illustrating the early use of marine resources by modern peoples outside of Africa. Barrow Island is a large (202 km2) limestone continental island located on the North-West Shelf of Australia, optimally located to sample past use of both the Pleistocene coastline and extensive arid coastal plains. An interdisciplinary team forming the Barrow Island Archaeology Project (BIAP) has addressed questions focusing on the antiquity of occupation of coastal deserts by hunter-gatherers; the use and distribution of marine resources from the coast to the interior; and the productivity of the marine zone with changing sea levels. Boodie Cave is the largest of 20 stratified deposits identified on Barrow Island with 20 m3 of cultural deposits excavated between 2013 and 2015. In this first major synthesis we focus on the dating and sedimentology of Boodie Cave to establish the framework for ongoing analysis of cultural materials. We present new data on these cultural assemblages – including charcoal, faunal remains and lithics – integrated with micromorphology, sedimentary history and dating by four independent laboratories. First occupation occurs between 51.1 and 46.2 ka, overlapping with the earliest dates for occupation of Australia. Marine resources are incorporated into dietary assemblages by 42.5 ka and continue to be transported to the cave through all periods of occupation, despite fluctuating sea levels and dramatic extensions of the coastal plain. The changing quantities of marine fauna through time reflect the varying distance of the cave from the contemporaneous shoreline. The dietary breadth of both arid zone terrestrial fauna and marine species increases after the Last Glacial Maximum and significantly so by the mid-Holocene. The cave is abandoned by 6.8 ka when the island becomes increasingly distant from the mainland coast. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59190
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作者单位: Archaeology, School of Social Sciences, M257, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia; School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD, Australia; College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD, Australia; Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, The University of Waikato, Hillcrest Road, Hamilton, New Zealand; School of Physical Sciences, The University of AdelaideSA, Australia; School of Earth Sciences, The University of AdelaideSA, Australia; Centre for Accelerator Science, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, NSW, Australia; Archaeological Research Center, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento, CA, United States; Department of Anthropology, Sacramento State, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA, United States; Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA, Australia; Oxford Luminescence Dating Laboratory, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom; Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD, Australia; College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia; Department of Parks and Wildlife, Bentley Delivery Centre, Locked Bag 104WA, Australia

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Veth P.,Ward I.,Manne T.,et al. Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2017-01-01,168
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