A continental narrative : Human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Williams, Alan, Veth, Peter, Steffen, Will, Ulm, Sean, Turney, Chris, Reeves, Jessica, Phipps, Steven, Smith, Mike
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2015
• Subjects: 04 Earth Sciences; 21 History and Archaeology; Archaeological radiocarbon data; Aus-INTIMATE; Human-environment interaction; Hunter-gatherer behaviour; OZ-INTIMATE; Palaeoenvironment; Time-series analysis; Arid regions; Behavioral research; Climate change; Population statistics; Radiocarbon data; Climate models; Southern Ocean; Reeves
• Online Access: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/96370; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.018

Drawing on the recent synthesis of Australian palaeoclimate by the OZ-INTIMATE group (Reeves etal., 2013a), we consider the effects of climate systems on past human settlement patterns and inferred demography. We use 5044 radiocarbon dates from ~1750 archaeological sites to develop regional time-ser...