The thin film of human action
Iinterpretations of arid zone archaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11793605 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Huw Barton (0000-0002-3720-5435), H C M Barton (University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-41 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-2417 • E-ISSN: 2470-0363 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03122417.2003.11681760 |
| OpenAlex | W2260044564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 20 |
Laid across most of inland Australia is a behavioural record aggregating the material history of human actions that is of vast size and of vast temporal span. This fourdimensional landscape is a palimpsest on which successive generations have left their impressions, removed and sometimes re-worked the impressions of others. How do we frame and picture this record of the past? Such an archaeological record has the potential to reveal much about the nature of human behaviour and histories of human action, providing we remain aware of the influence of scale on our interpretation and select appropriate units of analysis. This paper explores these issues to infer the long-term behavioural patterns of hunter-gatherers from the Simpson Desert in central Australia
Action (physics · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Arid · Art · Desert (philosophy · Epistemology · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy · Palimpsest · Project commissioning · Publishing · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Computer Science · Ecology · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
The lost oasis
Hacia la comprensión de un espacio multipropósito
Expedient Technologies and Curated Tools Within a System of High Residential Mobiltty
Australian prehistoric archaeology
Core Concept
Landform boundary effects on Holocene forager landscape use in arid South Australia
Towards a Late Holocene archaeology of the Inland Pilbara
Finding the right question
Stone Age Sites in the Making: Experiments in the Formation and Transformation of Archaeological Occurrences
Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem
On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment
New Guinea
On the Edge of the Simpson
Late pleistocene vegetation and environmental shifts in Australia and their bearing on faunal extinctions
Plant Utility Indices
The age of two human occupation sites in the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia
Thesis Abstract
A morphological comparison of central Australian seedgrinding implements and Australian Pleistocene- Age grindstones
Late Holocene biological records from the middens of stick-nest rats in the central Australian arid zone
Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior
Vegetation history from archaeological charcoals in central Australia
A geometric index of reduction for unifacial stone tools
Cambridge in the bush? Archaeology in Australia and New Guinea
Organization and Formation Processes
The Three Sides of a Biface
The Lithic Assemblage of the Western Desert Aborigines of Australia
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |