D Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 15441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2546-0559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Multi-directional exchange and south-to-north transport of lithic material to Ormi, Eastern Torres Strait, 2600 years ago
Engraved Limestone Block from Švédův stůl Cave, Czech Republic
Stratigraphic Narratives from the Eastern Torres Strait: A Multi-proxy Geoarchaeological Study at Ormi, Dauar Island
In the Eastern Torres Strait, a multi-proxy approach combining micro- and macro-scale geoarchaeological techniques has been applied at Ormi (Dauar Island), an archaeological midden site dating from 2600–2250 cal. BP. This study combines soil micromorphology with particle size analysis and geochemical analyses (Carbon/Nitrogen ratios; Total Phosphorus (Pt) and Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF)) to assess integrity of the deposits. The geoarchaeol…
Re-excavation of cultural deposits at Švédův stůl cave in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic
The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia
Australia's Eastern Highlands have traditionally been viewed as a cold-climate barrier to Late Pleistocene (~35,000-11,700 years ago) mobility, with older evidence restricted to elevations below the periglacial zone. However, this model has not been adequately tested with regionally specific, high-resolution archaeological data. Here we report excavation results from a high-altitude (1,073 m) cave, Dargan Shelter, in the upper Blue Mountains, whi…
Exotic ceramics from the Murray Islands, Eastern Torres Strait
This study reports on new ceramic finds from the Murray Islands group in the Eastern Torres Strait. • Combined use of petrography (optical mineralogy) and portable X-Ray fluorescence has identified at least two sources for archaeological ceramics in the region. • Combined radiocarbon and U-Th dating of an early potsherd establishes ceramic manufacture and transport by at least 2600 years ago. • These findings provide new insights into the uptake …
Combining quantification, sex, age, and utility patterns to interpret two dugong bone mounds from Woeydhul Island (Western Torres Strait, Australia)
The analysis of dugong bone mounds in the Torres Strait Islands has traditionally focused on ritualized deposition and treatment of remains, the distinction between formalized ritual and midden refuse, and their socio-political and spiritual role within Torres Strait Islander seascapes. Research has consistently targeted the abundance of specific skeletal elements in a mound, with interpretations frequently based on the calculation of common quan…
The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific
The Pacific Islands offer a variety of marine environments providing peoples in the present and past with abundant coral materials, a “stone from the sea”. Archaeologists have long recognised the importance of coral in ancient contexts, whether as gravel, natural branches, squared blocks or cut‐and‐dress slabs. Coral was also used to manufacture tools such as files or pounders and incorporated in monumental ceremonial architecture as a favoured c…
Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory
The Wellington Range region, in far Northern Australia, provides a remarkable record of cultural encounter. Cathedral‐sized rock art galleries include contact imagery referencing Macassan and European visitors while lithic artefact assemblages echo social mobility between Indigenous groups occurring from at least the mid Holocene period. In this paper, we continue the trajectory of archaeological research in this region by examining community ent…
Archaeology of powerful stones in the Australia‐Pacific region: An Introduction
Over millennia, and right across the globe, people have invested time and energy to create cultural landscapes that revolve around or incorporate powerful stones. Questions about the structured nature, distribution, source, or placement of stones (both within physical and meta‐physical worlds), pose intriguing theoretical and methodological challenges. Emic and etic perspectives may provide additional insights into the complex (often animate) nat…
Cosmo‐political landscapes of Torres Straitadhiandmisœristones: Closing the gap between Islander and non‐indigenous perspectives
Torres Strait (TS), on Australia's north‐east border, has a long history of research onpœrapœral kulal: powerful stones.Pœrapœral kulalcontain vital power from site‐of‐origin and therefore their movement across the Coral‐Arafura Sea corridor provides important information about past and present human relationships (Elu 2004). With few exceptions Western models draw on anthropological, linguistic and site origin research collated by a Cambridge Un…
A 15,000-year history of Early Upper Paleolithic hunters moving through the Pustý Žleb valley – Artefacts and chronology of Pod Hradem Cave, Moravian Karst, Czech Republic
Archaeological evidence shows that Paleolithic hunters occasionally used the difficult-to-access Pod Hradem Cave for short-term visits. The small collection of artefacts spanning a c. 15,000-year period were made from a range of different raw materials collected from known sources in the surrounding regions up to 120 km away. In this paper, we interpret the sum of the archaeological evidence associated with artefacts from Pod Hradem Cave against …
Histories of Torres Strait Islander interaction and mythological geography
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long been interested in the study of past human interaction. In the Indo-Pacific, research has focused on the age and processes by which islands were settled and the role that intermediary communities played in these histories. Torres Strait, on Australia’s northern border, represents one such frontier zone. For millennia this 48,000 km2 area (containing at least 274 islands) separated predominately horticu…
The archaeology of overburden: Method within the madness at Švédův Stůl, Czech Republic
Archaeology of the Waiat mysteries on Woeydhul Island in Western Torres Strait
Secret societies, involving restricted and hierarchically organised initiation rituals, are conspicuous in the chronicles of many past and present societies. These rarely leave a substantial written record and yet archaeology can provide vivid insight into past performances, for example in relation to Roman 'mystery cults'. Far less research, however, has focused on Australia and the Pacific Islands. This article presents archaeological evidence …
The 'Waiat Archaeology Project' in Torres Strait, northern Australia
The lost oasis: Archaeology of a ‘forgotten’ mikiri well in the Simpson Desert
This paper describes a previously unknown mikiri well in the Simpson dune field. This site was abandoned about 500-600 years ago and does not feature in ethnographic records for this region. We argue that its abandonment was most likely due to failure of the well caused by a fall in the local watertable. The Simpson Desert is one of the major sand-ridge deserts of the world, but current views of the chronology of human use of this vast dune field…
A Feasibility Study Using a Machine Learning Suicide Risk Prediction Model Based on Open-Ended Interview Language in Adolescent Therapy Sessions
Voice collection technology and associated procedures can be integrated into mental health therapists' workflow. Collected language samples could be classified with good discrimination using machine learning methods
Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style
In this paper, a previously undescribed rock art style consisting of large human figures and animals with stroke-line infill is introduced. These depictions have been named Maliwawa Figures. They are primarily found in northwest Arnhem Land and to date have been recorded at 87 sites from Awunbarna (Mount Borradaile area) to the Namunidjbuk clan state of the Wellington Range. There are solitary figures and others arranged in compositions or scenes…
Preliminary report of the 2019 excavation at Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst
Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst has been excavated several times since Martin Kříž started the first excavation in 1886. Two parts of the site were re-excavated in 2019. The primary aim was to conduct classical as well as innovative and experimental sedimentological and geoarchaeological investigations of sediments from the discarded spoil heap outside the cave entrance (trench C–D). Intact sediments with a small number of lithic artefacts…
Reclaiming space at Red Hill Camp: Community archaeology with urban indigenous groups
Community archaeology can contribute to positive social outcomes for urban Indigenous communities by focusing on the recent history of the modern city. We report on a community archaeology project undertaken in Canberra, Australia, which focused on the 1940–50s campsite of one of the authors’ Indigenous Ngambri/Ngunnawal family. Project outcomes showed that even despite a lack of material culture, community archaeology has the ability to shift na…
Ritual pathways and public memory: Archaeology of Waiet zogo in Eastern Torres Strait, far north Australia
The materiality of performative ritual is a growing focus for archaeologists. In Europe, collective ritual performance is expected to be highly structured with ritual often resulting in a loud archaeological signature. In Australia and Papua New Guinea, ritual (and collective ritual movement) is also highly structured; however, materiality and permanence are frequently secondary to intangible and/or impermanent considerations. In this paper, we a…
The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives
The development of complex cultural behaviour in our own species is perhaps the most significant research issue in modern archaeology. Until recently, it was believed that our capacity for language and art only developed after some of our ancestors reached Europe around 40,000 years ago. Archaeological discoveries in Africa now show that modern humans were practicing symbolic behaviours prior to their dispersal from that continent, and more recen…
The rock art of Ingaanjalwurr, western Arnhem Land, Australia
The painted and beeswax rock art of Ingaanjalwurr rockshelter in western Arnhem Land is a unique assemblage of art within an unassuming rockshelter. By combining a variety of approaches and methods to the study of Ingaanjalwurr, we were able to draw together an important archaeological context for inferring the antiquity of the painted rock art, as well as direct dates for the age of beeswax art. This chapter provides an overview of the rock art …
Hominid visitation of the Moravian Karst during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition: New results from Pod Hradem Cave (Czech Republic)
Getting Out of the Asylum: Understanding the Confinement of the Insane in the Nineteenth Century
This paper critically re-examines our assumptions about the social rule of asylums in the nineteenth century by separating the history of the confinement from the history of psychiatry. Rather than medical superintendents being central to the admission of patients, this paper will argue that control over confinement was predicated upon the desires of families to care for and control dependent and violent relatives. The confinement of the insane c…
Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style
In this paper, a previously undescribed rock art style consisting of large human figures and animals with stroke-line infill is introduced. These depictions have been named Maliwawa Figures. They are primarily found in northwest Arnhem Land and to date have been recorded at 87 sites from Awunbarna (Mount Borradaile area) to the Namunidjbuk clan state of the Wellington Range. There are solitary figures and others arranged in compositions or scenes…
Human Colonization of the Palau Islands, Western Micronesia
Adaptation to new environments is an important issue in colonization research with implications for accurately establishing the timing of human arrival and interpreting the dispersal pattern from the distribution of early archaeological sites. Island groups frequently contain a diverse range of landscapes and geographic variation in their colonization records that might reflect the environmental preference of prehistoric migrants. In the Palau Is…
An Early Upper Palaeolithic decorated bone tubular rod from Pod Hradem Cave, Czech Republic
Personal ornaments are a notable feature of the Early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe and an important expression of modern human identity. The tubular bone rod from Pod Hradem Cave in the Czech Republic is the first example of its kind from Central Europe. Laboratory examination reveals the techniques used in its manufacture and underlines the skill of its maker. AMS dates and Bayesian modelling suggest a cultural association with the Early Aurigna…
The prevalence and morbidity of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: A prospective primary care study
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the prevalence and public health impact of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome in primary care patients in England. METHODS: There were 2376 subjects, aged 18 through 45 years. Of 214 subjects who fulfilled criteria for chronic fatigue, 185 (86%) were interviewed in the case-control study. Measures included chronic fatigue, psychological morbidity, depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, symptoms of chronic…
Birriwilk rockshelter: A mid- to late Holocene site in ManilikarrCountry, southwest Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Recent excavations at the Birriwilk rockshelter in Mikinj Valley, southwest Arnhem Land, have revealed evidence for mid- to late Holocene settlement, including a major period of site use in the last millennium. The site is important to the traditional owners, with a rich oral tradition associated with ‘Birriwilk’, an ancestor of the Urningangk tribe, who is depicted in rock art at the site. Oral traditions link Birriwilk with an adjacent lagoon, …
Mid Holocene maritime economy in the western Torres Strait
Results from a new mid Holocene site in the central‐western Torres Strait, north‐eastern Australia are presented. AMS determinations from Dabangai on Mabuyag provide evidence for two settlement periods. Phase 1 (7180–4960 calBP) is associated with recurring/permanent occupation involving marine‐based subsistence during the poorly documented period of marine transgression. Phase 2 (230BP‐present) is a period of increased site use including an esca…
Movement of ideas not materials: Locally manufactured pottery on Mabuyag Island, Western Torres Strait
We report a new site with locally made pottery on the Western Torres Strait island of Mabuyag (Mabuiag). The study uses petrographic and chronological results to reassess the antiquity of pottery in the region. It adds to knowledge which points to significant changes in the Torres Strait after 1700 BP
Re-excavation of Dabangay, a mid-Holocene settlement site on Mabuyag in western Torres Strait
The discovery and initial excavation of Dabangay in 2006 established a 7200 year chronology for human settlement on Mabuyag (Mabuiag) in western Torres Strait. This was one of only two Torres Strait sites to pre-date 4000 years ago, providing a rare opportunity to study human activities spanning the mid-to-late Holocene. Remarkable organic preservation and a large mid-Holocene stone artefact assemblage provided insights into long-term continuity …
Ritual pathways and public memory: Archaeology of Waiet zogo in Eastern Torres Strait, far north Australia
The materiality of performative ritual is a growing focus for archaeologists. In Europe, collective ritual performance is expected to be highly structured with ritual often resulting in a loud archaeological signature. In Australia and Papua New Guinea, ritual (and collective ritual movement) is also highly structured; however, materiality and permanence are frequently secondary to intangible and/or impermanent considerations. In this paper, we a…
Painted shark vertebrae beads from the Djawumbu–Madjawarrnja complex, western Arnhem Land
In Europe and Africa, fine grained use wear and residue analyses of various organic bead \ntechnologies have provided remarkable information about specialist artisans and their affiliate communities. Ethnographic research suggests that personal ornaments represent one of the best ways to explore past human interactions and ethno-linguistic diversity. The study of material culture featured in rock art is now well established in Australia, but few …
One hundred pregnant adolescents, treatment approaches in a university hospital
One hundred pregnant adolescents, treatment approaches in a university hospital. H O Dickens, E H Mudd, C R Garcia, K Tomar, and D WrightCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.9.794 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Hominid visitation of the Moravian Karst during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition: New results from Pod Hradem Cave (Czech Republic)
Exploring Ceremony: The Archaeology of a Men's Meeting House (‘Kod’) on Mabuyag, Western Torres Strait
The materiality of ritual performance is a growing focus for archaeologists. In Europe, collective ritual performance is expected to be highly structured and to leave behind a loud archaeological signature. In Australia and Papua New Guinea, ritual is highly structured; however, material signatures for performance are not always apparent, with ritual frequently bound up in the surrounding natural and cultural landscape. One way of assessing long-…
The archaeology of Bindjarran rockshelter in Manilikarr Country, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory
Archaeological excavations at Bindjarran rockshelter in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, have revealed evidence of human settlement on the East Alligator River floodplain from the terminal Pleistocene through to the twentieth century. This excavation report summarises the archaeological, ethnographic and rock art research from the site, focusing on dated distributions of stone artefacts. The findings from Bindjarran conform to archaeolog…
Archaeology of the Waiat mysteries on Woeydhul Island in Western Torres Strait
Secret societies, involving restricted and hierarchically organised initiation rituals, are conspicuous in the chronicles of many past and present societies. These rarely leave a substantial written record and yet archaeology can provide vivid insight into past performances, for example in relation to Roman 'mystery cults'. Far less research, however, has focused on Australia and the Pacific Islands. This article presents archaeological evidence …
Further radiocarbon dates from Dabangay, a mid- to late Holocene settlement site in western Torres Strait
Dabangay , on the island of Mabuyag, is one of only two known mid-Holocene sites in Torres Strait. Eleven new radiocarbon dates, combined with nine previous determinations, clarify its site formation processes and settlement history. The sequence shows two sustained settlement periods between 7239–3211 cal. BP and 1815 cal. BP–present, with little evidence for use during the intervening period. This differs from Badu 15, approximately 15 km south…
The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific
The Pacific Islands offer a variety of marine environments providing peoples in the present and past with abundant coral materials, a “stone from the sea”. Archaeologists have long recognised the importance of coral in ancient contexts, whether as gravel, natural branches, squared blocks or cut‐and‐dress slabs. Coral was also used to manufacture tools such as files or pounders and incorporated in monumental ceremonial architecture as a favoured c…
Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory
The Wellington Range region, in far Northern Australia, provides a remarkable record of cultural encounter. Cathedral‐sized rock art galleries include contact imagery referencing Macassan and European visitors while lithic artefact assemblages echo social mobility between Indigenous groups occurring from at least the mid Holocene period. In this paper, we continue the trajectory of archaeological research in this region by examining community ent…
Cosmo‐political landscapes of Torres Straitadhiandmisœristones: Closing the gap between Islander and non‐indigenous perspectives
Torres Strait (TS), on Australia's north‐east border, has a long history of research onpœrapœral kulal: powerful stones.Pœrapœral kulalcontain vital power from site‐of‐origin and therefore their movement across the Coral‐Arafura Sea corridor provides important information about past and present human relationships (Elu 2004). With few exceptions Western models draw on anthropological, linguistic and site origin research collated by a Cambridge Un…
The archaeology of overburden: Method within the madness at Švédův Stůl, Czech Republic
An Archaeological Review of Western New Guinea
The earliest evidence of high-elevation ice age occupation in Australia
Australia's Eastern Highlands have traditionally been viewed as a cold-climate barrier to Late Pleistocene (~35,000-11,700 years ago) mobility, with older evidence restricted to elevations below the periglacial zone. However, this model has not been adequately tested with regionally specific, high-resolution archaeological data. Here we report excavation results from a high-altitude (1,073 m) cave, Dargan Shelter, in the upper Blue Mountains, whi…
Preliminary report of the 2019 excavation at Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst
Švédův Stůl Cave in the Moravian Karst has been excavated several times since Martin Kříž started the first excavation in 1886. Two parts of the site were re-excavated in 2019. The primary aim was to conduct classical as well as innovative and experimental sedimentological and geoarchaeological investigations of sediments from the discarded spoil heap outside the cave entrance (trench C–D). Intact sediments with a small number of lithic artefacts…
Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds XIII—A History of Wharram Percy and its Neighbours. Edited by S. W rathmell
(2012). Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds XIII—A History of Wharram Percy and its Neighbours. Edited by S. Wrathmell. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 169, No. 1, pp. 585-586
How They Bury a Chief in Rhodesia
One hundred pregnant adolescents, treatment approaches in a university hospital
One hundred pregnant adolescents, treatment approaches in a university hospital. H O Dickens, E H Mudd, C R Garcia, K Tomar, and D WrightCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.9.794 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Vector analysis of changes in medical care utilization in two rural communities
Whose Music? A Sociology of Musical Languages
Simy Folds: An Early Medieval Settlement Site in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham
EXCAVATIONS took place on the early medieval settlement of Simy Folds in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham in 1976, 1979 and 1981 when three sites were examined. An adjacent peat bog was sampled and a radiocarbon-dated pollen diagram constructed. Each site consisted of the stone foundations of a single long narrow rectangular building with one or two small subrectangular buildings at right angles to it, arranged to enclose a yard. The sites lie within a…
Development of a fatigue scale
Getting Out of the Asylum: Understanding the Confinement of the Insane in the Nineteenth Century
This paper critically re-examines our assumptions about the social rule of asylums in the nineteenth century by separating the history of the confinement from the history of psychiatry. Rather than medical superintendents being central to the admission of patients, this paper will argue that control over confinement was predicated upon the desires of families to care for and control dependent and violent relatives. The confinement of the insane c…
The prevalence and morbidity of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: A prospective primary care study
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the prevalence and public health impact of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome in primary care patients in England. METHODS: There were 2376 subjects, aged 18 through 45 years. Of 214 subjects who fulfilled criteria for chronic fatigue, 185 (86%) were interviewed in the case-control study. Measures included chronic fatigue, psychological morbidity, depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, symptoms of chronic…
Trouble in the Heartland: GIS and Its Critics in the 1990s
If we could bring ourselves to accept the fact that no theory about the nature of Man or Society or Rationality, or anything else, is going to synthesize Nietzsche with Marx or Heidegger with Habermas, we could begin to think of the relation between writers on autonomy and writers on justice as being like the relation between two kinds of tools -as little in need of synthesis as are paintbrushes and crowbars Both are right, but there is no way to…
Human Colonization of the Palau Islands, Western Micronesia
Adaptation to new environments is an important issue in colonization research with implications for accurately establishing the timing of human arrival and interpreting the dispersal pattern from the distribution of early archaeological sites. Island groups frequently contain a diverse range of landscapes and geographic variation in their colonization records that might reflect the environmental preference of prehistoric migrants. In the Palau Is…
Thesis Abstracts
Movement of ideas not materials: Locally manufactured pottery on Mabuyag Island, Western Torres Strait
We report a new site with locally made pottery on the Western Torres Strait island of Mabuyag (Mabuiag). The study uses petrographic and chronological results to reassess the antiquity of pottery in the region. It adds to knowledge which points to significant changes in the Torres Strait after 1700 BP
Throwing off The Cloak: Reclaiming Self-Reliance in Torres Strait
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The Archaeology of Community on Mabuyag (Mabuiag) in the Western Torres Strait, Northeastern Australia
This paper provides new insights into the late Holocene history of Mabuyag in western Torres Strait. It addresses a question posed by McNiven et al. (2006:75): ‘at what point [did] Mabuyag became [sic] a residential island and a separate people (i.e. the Goemulgal) with their own identity’? Using a social model of regionalisation, ‘community’ is approached using the archaeology and ethnography of four recently excavated traditional villages and o…
Thesis Abstracts
Mid Holocene maritime economy in the western Torres Strait
Results from a new mid Holocene site in the central‐western Torres Strait, north‐eastern Australia are presented. AMS determinations from Dabangai on Mabuyag provide evidence for two settlement periods. Phase 1 (7180–4960 calBP) is associated with recurring/permanent occupation involving marine‐based subsistence during the poorly documented period of marine transgression. Phase 2 (230BP‐present) is a period of increased site use including an esca…
Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds XIII—A History of Wharram Percy and its Neighbours. Edited by S. W rathmell
(2012). Wharram: A Study of Settlement on the Yorkshire Wolds XIII—A History of Wharram Percy and its Neighbours. Edited by S. Wrathmell. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 169, No. 1, pp. 585-586
Becoming an Archaeologist: A Guide to Professional Pathways. By J oe F latman
An Archaeological Review of Western New Guinea
Further radiocarbon dates from Dabangay, a mid- to late Holocene settlement site in western Torres Strait
Dabangay , on the island of Mabuyag, is one of only two known mid-Holocene sites in Torres Strait. Eleven new radiocarbon dates, combined with nine previous determinations, clarify its site formation processes and settlement history. The sequence shows two sustained settlement periods between 7239–3211 cal. BP and 1815 cal. BP–present, with little evidence for use during the intervening period. This differs from Badu 15, approximately 15 km south…
Radiocarbon dates for coastal midden sites at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia
This paper presents 29 radiocarbon dates from eight surface concentrations of shell and 10 test-pits across four shell middens at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia. Results indicate that occupation of these sites was confined to the late Holocene period, post-2500 cal. BP. With the exception of one midden, which appears not to have been used after 500–300 cal. BP, all other sites suggest continued use until the recent past. This pattern …
Birriwilk rockshelter: A mid- to late Holocene site in ManilikarrCountry, southwest Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
Recent excavations at the Birriwilk rockshelter in Mikinj Valley, southwest Arnhem Land, have revealed evidence for mid- to late Holocene settlement, including a major period of site use in the last millennium. The site is important to the traditional owners, with a rich oral tradition associated with ‘Birriwilk’, an ancestor of the Urningangk tribe, who is depicted in rock art at the site. Oral traditions link Birriwilk with an adjacent lagoon, …
Re-excavation of Dabangay, a mid-Holocene settlement site on Mabuyag in western Torres Strait
The discovery and initial excavation of Dabangay in 2006 established a 7200 year chronology for human settlement on Mabuyag (Mabuiag) in western Torres Strait. This was one of only two Torres Strait sites to pre-date 4000 years ago, providing a rare opportunity to study human activities spanning the mid-to-late Holocene. Remarkable organic preservation and a large mid-Holocene stone artefact assemblage provided insights into long-term continuity …
More equal societies have less mental illness: What should therapists do on Monday morning
BACKGROUND: Therapists seeing poor clients may ask if countries with greater income equality have less mental illness. If so, how should therapists respond? MATERIAL: A review of epidemiological studies, theories of inequality and democratic reform movements in psychiatry and psychology leads to four arguments. DISCUSSION: (1) Increasing income equality improves the health of societies. (2) An elite opposes greater equality, partly by persuading …
Healthcare–associated Infections: A National Patient Safety Problem and the Coordinated Response
Healthcare–associated infections (HAIs) are infections that patients acquire during the course of treatment in healthcare settings.1 HAIs can be acquired in any setting in which healthcare is delivered, including acute care hospitals, ambulatory care settings, and long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. HAIs are associated with a variety of risk factors, including the use of indwelling medical devices such…
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