A re-examination of interpretations and explanations for changes in habitation and artefact indices in eastern Australia
2006
Attenbrow, Val
Chapter 8 of 'What’s Changing: Population Size or Land-Use Patterns?'
Show more [+] Less [-]A review of 1970s and 1980s archaeological studies showed there were numerousinterpretations and explanations for dramatic changes in habitation and artefact indices inseveral regions of eastern Australia (Chapter 2). In this chapter, these explanations andinterpretations are compared with the archaeological evidence on which they were based(presented in Chapter 7 and Appendix 4). This comparison shows that in many instances theexplanations and interpretations cannot be sustained. Equally, it shows that a wide range ofinterpretations and explanations are possible, but that simplistic relationships betweennumbers of sites/artefacts and numbers of people, or between numbers of artefacts and theintroduction of the ‘Small Tool Tradition’ or Bondaian assemblages, are unlikely to describethe full complexity of a region’s prehistory.
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