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

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Williams, AN, Veth, P, Steffen, W, Ulm, S, Turney, CSM, Reeves, JM, Phipps, SJ, Smith, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd 2015
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Quaternary Environments; Reeves; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.018; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/104739

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...