Desert peoples : archaeological perspectives

Veth, Peter Marius. (Added Author). Smith, M. A. (Added Author). Hiscock, Peter, 1957- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 1405100915 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1405100907 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
x, 308 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

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1. Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- 2. Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- 3. Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- 4. Arid paradises or dangerous landscapes : a review of explanations for paleolithic assemblage change in arid Australia and Africa / Peter Hiscock and Sue O'Connor -- 5. Evolutionary and ecological understandings of the economics of desert societies : comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian deserts / Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird -- 6. Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization among Late Pleistocene foragers of the western desert, Australia / Peter Veth -- 7. Archaic faces to headdresses : the changing role of rock art across the arid zone / Jo McDonald --

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Lansdowne Library	GN 390 D47 2005 (Text)	26040002744825	Main Collection	Volume hold	Available	-
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