Bowen Island: Further Evidence for Economic Change and Intensification on the South Coast of New South Wales
In several parts of Australia, Aboriginal exploitation of offshore islands has become one of the key areas of archaeological investigation over the past decade. Islands off the south coast of New South Wales, however, have so far received only a cursory glance by archaeologists. Until this present s...
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Zenodo
1982
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6365925 https://zenodo.org/record/6365925 |
| Summary: | In several parts of Australia, Aboriginal exploitation of offshore islands has become one of the key areas of archaeological investigation over the past decade. Islands off the south coast of New South Wales, however, have so far received only a cursory glance by archaeologists. Until this present study, Sullivan’s survey of Montagu Island (1975) was the most comprehensive of these island investigations. Despite the fact that the south coast is one of the most intensively archaeologically researched areas in Australia our knowledge of the prehistory of the offshore islands is minimal. ... |
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