The archaeology of isolation? : prehistoric occupation in the Furneaux Group of Islands, Bass Strait, Tasmania

• Main Author: Sim, Robin
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The Australian National University 1998
• Subjects: GN875.A8S56 1998; Aboriginal Australians AntiquitiesAustralia Furneaux Islands Tas.; Excavations Archaeology Australia Furneaux Islands Tas.; Prehistoric peoples Australia Furneaux Islands Tas.; Kitchen-middens Australia Furneaux Islands Tas.; Furneaux Islands Tas. Antiquities; Flinders; Seal Islands; Kangaroo Island; Lampert; Outer Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25911/5d7783717a054; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/110266

Early European explorers were puzzled by the absence of Aboriginal populations on the larger more remote larger islands of the Bass Strait as at least King and Flinders Islands appeared capable of supporting human populations. Subsequent discoveries of stone artefacts on several of the Bassian islan...