Climatic and environmental change in eastern Australia during the late Pleistocene and Holocene
2006
Attenbrow, Val
Chapter 9 of 'What’s Changing: Population Size or Land-Use Patterns?'
Afficher plus [+] Moins [-]Environmental changes associated with global climatic changes of the late-Pleistocene andHolocene in south-eastern Australia included changes to vegetation patterns and lake levels,as well as rising sea-level. Along the NSW central coast, these changes were of sufficientmagnitude to affect both the land and subsistence resources available to inhabitants of theUpper Mangrove Creek catchment and the surrounding regions. People would haveresponded to these changes, but in doing so, climatic and environmental conditions weredetermining variables only in so far as they provided a series of options/opportunities andconstraints within which the societies operated. Decisions about which options to take, whento adopt them and how resources were utilised were probably based on factors such as social,economical, political and ideological preferences, as well as technological capacities (Fletcher1977b: 138–40; McBryde 1977: 249; Thomas 1981: 171–2; Gamble 1982: 99–103, 1983: 202, 1984:250, 256, 1986: 29–31; Bailey 1983b: 150, 164–5; Lourandos 1983b: 43; Rowland 1983: 63; Head1986: 122).
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