Charles Dortch
Biographic Data
| ID | 975893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Dortch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Dortch |
| SIGNATURE | DORTCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Australian Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Late Quaternary Aboriginal hunter-gatherer occupation of the Greater Swan Region, south-western Australia
The Greater Swan Region is an archaeological study area on the Indian Ocean coast in south-western Australia. It covers the central Swan Coastal Plain and the adjacent part of the formerly emergent Rottnest Shelf. Assessment of Aboriginal hunter-gatherer activity throughout this late Quaternary coastal landscape is based on dated records of open-air sites within their environmental settings, informed by historical accounts of mainland subsistence…
Test Excavation At The Oyster Harbour Stone Fish Traps, King George Sound, Western Australia: An Investigation Aimed at Determining the Construction Method and Maximum Age of the Structures
Several stone structures on the northern foreshore of Oyster Harbour, King George Sound, Western Australia, are documented in ethnohistorical accounts and traditionally regarded as ‘fish traps’ maintained and used by resident Aboriginal groups, around the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. Test excavation at one structure (‘Trap 7’), undertaken at the request of the local Aboriginal community, did show the structure’s mode of construction,…
Preliminary underwater survey for rock engravings and other sea floor sites in the Dampier Archipelago, Pilbara region, Western Australia
The paper presents the initial results of a project that aims to investigate the antiquity of human occupation of Australian tropical rainforests and the role that toxic plants played in the adaptation process. International research suggests that people only permanently occupied rainforests in the last 5000 years with access to agriculture. The fact that Australian rainforest Aborigines were hunter-gatherers using specialised processing technolo…
Modelling past Aboriginal hunter‐gatherer socio‐economic and territorial organisation in Western Australia's lower south‐west
Past Aboriginal hunter‐gatherer adaptation is modelled in Western Australia's ‘lower South‐west’ — an informally named archaeological study area incorporating coastal and immediate hinterland districts from the Swan Region southward to Cape Leeuwin and then eastward to King George Sound. The modelling is principally based on Stanner's concepts of estate ownership and interpenetrative ranges, and is developed regionally through review of ethnohist…
Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago
New dating confirms that people occupied the Australian continent before the earliest time inferred from conventional radiocarbon analysis. Many of the new ages were obtained by accelerator mass spectrometry 14 C dating after an acid–base–acid pretreatment with bulk combustion (ABA-BC) or after a newly developed acid–base–wet oxidation pretreatment with stepped combustion (ABOX-SC). The samples (charcoal) came from the earliest occupation levels …
Prehistory Down Under: Archaeological investigations of submerged Aboriginal sites at Lake Jasper, Western Australia
Much of Australian prehistory lies under water. Although confined to the continent's extreme southwestern corner, field studies described in this report show that this submerged prehistoric component is very real, with numerous archaeological sites and former land surfaces awaiting investigation on the floors of Australia's lakes, rivers and estuaries, and on its submerged continental margins
An evaluation of radiocarbon chronologies at Miriwun rock shelter and the Monsmont site, Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia
Miriwun rock shelter, since the early 1970s permanently inundated in Lake Argyle in the Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia, was the first Aboriginal occupation site of Pleistocene age to be recorded in Western Australia's sub-tropical northwest (Dortch 1972, 1977a). Miriwun and the Stonewall Creek open-air site 35 km to the north (Dortch 1977b) provide the only unequivocal 'two-phase' stone industrial sequences yet recorded in the Ord …
Aboriginal mollusc exploitation in southwestern Australia
Devil's Lair, an example of prolonged cave use in South-Western Australia
Long‐term investigations at Devil's Lair, a small limestone cave in the Capes Leeuwin‐Naturaliste region of extreme south‐western Australia, have yielded archaeological material radiocarbon dated 6,500–33,000 B.P. Several occupation features show that people lived in the cave from 12,000 to 27,700 B.P. The cave deposit contains very rich assemblages of animal bones probably contributed by both human and animal predators; criteria are suggested to…
Australia's oldest known ornaments
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A 2500 Year Old Pseudo Shell Midden on Longreach Bay, Rottnest Island, Western Australia
On several occasions during the past decade, Perth-based and occasional visiting Quaternary researchers have examined possible prehistoric occupation sites on Rottnest Island, 20 km west of Fremantle, WA. The following describes findings from recent investigations of possible prehistoric midden material from a site on Longreach Bay, Rottnest Island
Devil's Lair, an example of prolonged cave use in South-Western Australia
Long‐term investigations at Devil's Lair, a small limestone cave in the Capes Leeuwin‐Naturaliste region of extreme south‐western Australia, have yielded archaeological material radiocarbon dated 6,500–33,000 B.P. Several occupation features show that people lived in the cave from 12,000 to 27,700 B.P. The cave deposit contains very rich assemblages of animal bones probably contributed by both human and animal predators; criteria are suggested to…
Aboriginal mollusc exploitation in southwestern Australia
Modelling past Aboriginal hunter‐gatherer socio‐economic and territorial organisation in Western Australia's lower south‐west
Past Aboriginal hunter‐gatherer adaptation is modelled in Western Australia's ‘lower South‐west’ — an informally named archaeological study area incorporating coastal and immediate hinterland districts from the Swan Region southward to Cape Leeuwin and then eastward to King George Sound. The modelling is principally based on Stanner's concepts of estate ownership and interpenetrative ranges, and is developed regionally through review of ethnohist…
Prehistory Down Under: Archaeological investigations of submerged Aboriginal sites at Lake Jasper, Western Australia
Much of Australian prehistory lies under water. Although confined to the continent's extreme southwestern corner, field studies described in this report show that this submerged prehistoric component is very real, with numerous archaeological sites and former land surfaces awaiting investigation on the floors of Australia's lakes, rivers and estuaries, and on its submerged continental margins
Preliminary underwater survey for rock engravings and other sea floor sites in the Dampier Archipelago, Pilbara region, Western Australia
The paper presents the initial results of a project that aims to investigate the antiquity of human occupation of Australian tropical rainforests and the role that toxic plants played in the adaptation process. International research suggests that people only permanently occupied rainforests in the last 5000 years with access to agriculture. The fact that Australian rainforest Aborigines were hunter-gatherers using specialised processing technolo…
Late Quaternary Aboriginal hunter-gatherer occupation of the Greater Swan Region, south-western Australia
The Greater Swan Region is an archaeological study area on the Indian Ocean coast in south-western Australia. It covers the central Swan Coastal Plain and the adjacent part of the formerly emergent Rottnest Shelf. Assessment of Aboriginal hunter-gatherer activity throughout this late Quaternary coastal landscape is based on dated records of open-air sites within their environmental settings, informed by historical accounts of mainland subsistence…
Test Excavation At The Oyster Harbour Stone Fish Traps, King George Sound, Western Australia: An Investigation Aimed at Determining the Construction Method and Maximum Age of the Structures
Several stone structures on the northern foreshore of Oyster Harbour, King George Sound, Western Australia, are documented in ethnohistorical accounts and traditionally regarded as ‘fish traps’ maintained and used by resident Aboriginal groups, around the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. Test excavation at one structure (‘Trap 7’), undertaken at the request of the local Aboriginal community, did show the structure’s mode of construction,…
A 2500 Year Old Pseudo Shell Midden on Longreach Bay, Rottnest Island, Western Australia
On several occasions during the past decade, Perth-based and occasional visiting Quaternary researchers have examined possible prehistoric occupation sites on Rottnest Island, 20 km west of Fremantle, WA. The following describes findings from recent investigations of possible prehistoric midden material from a site on Longreach Bay, Rottnest Island
An evaluation of radiocarbon chronologies at Miriwun rock shelter and the Monsmont site, Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia
Miriwun rock shelter, since the early 1970s permanently inundated in Lake Argyle in the Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia, was the first Aboriginal occupation site of Pleistocene age to be recorded in Western Australia's sub-tropical northwest (Dortch 1972, 1977a). Miriwun and the Stonewall Creek open-air site 35 km to the north (Dortch 1977b) provide the only unequivocal 'two-phase' stone industrial sequences yet recorded in the Ord …
Australia's oldest known ornaments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A 2500 Year Old Pseudo Shell Midden on Longreach Bay, Rottnest Island, Western Australia
On several occasions during the past decade, Perth-based and occasional visiting Quaternary researchers have examined possible prehistoric occupation sites on Rottnest Island, 20 km west of Fremantle, WA. The following describes findings from recent investigations of possible prehistoric midden material from a site on Longreach Bay, Rottnest Island
Devil's Lair, an example of prolonged cave use in South-Western Australia
Long‐term investigations at Devil's Lair, a small limestone cave in the Capes Leeuwin‐Naturaliste region of extreme south‐western Australia, have yielded archaeological material radiocarbon dated 6,500–33,000 B.P. Several occupation features show that people lived in the cave from 12,000 to 27,700 B.P. The cave deposit contains very rich assemblages of animal bones probably contributed by both human and animal predators; criteria are suggested to…
Australia's oldest known ornaments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Aboriginal mollusc exploitation in southwestern Australia
An evaluation of radiocarbon chronologies at Miriwun rock shelter and the Monsmont site, Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia
Miriwun rock shelter, since the early 1970s permanently inundated in Lake Argyle in the Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia, was the first Aboriginal occupation site of Pleistocene age to be recorded in Western Australia's sub-tropical northwest (Dortch 1972, 1977a). Miriwun and the Stonewall Creek open-air site 35 km to the north (Dortch 1977b) provide the only unequivocal 'two-phase' stone industrial sequences yet recorded in the Ord …
Prehistory Down Under: Archaeological investigations of submerged Aboriginal sites at Lake Jasper, Western Australia
Much of Australian prehistory lies under water. Although confined to the continent's extreme southwestern corner, field studies described in this report show that this submerged prehistoric component is very real, with numerous archaeological sites and former land surfaces awaiting investigation on the floors of Australia's lakes, rivers and estuaries, and on its submerged continental margins
Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago
New dating confirms that people occupied the Australian continent before the earliest time inferred from conventional radiocarbon analysis. Many of the new ages were obtained by accelerator mass spectrometry 14 C dating after an acid–base–acid pretreatment with bulk combustion (ABA-BC) or after a newly developed acid–base–wet oxidation pretreatment with stepped combustion (ABOX-SC). The samples (charcoal) came from the earliest occupation levels …
Preliminary underwater survey for rock engravings and other sea floor sites in the Dampier Archipelago, Pilbara region, Western Australia
The paper presents the initial results of a project that aims to investigate the antiquity of human occupation of Australian tropical rainforests and the role that toxic plants played in the adaptation process. International research suggests that people only permanently occupied rainforests in the last 5000 years with access to agriculture. The fact that Australian rainforest Aborigines were hunter-gatherers using specialised processing technolo…
Modelling past Aboriginal hunter‐gatherer socio‐economic and territorial organisation in Western Australia's lower south‐west
Past Aboriginal hunter‐gatherer adaptation is modelled in Western Australia's ‘lower South‐west’ — an informally named archaeological study area incorporating coastal and immediate hinterland districts from the Swan Region southward to Cape Leeuwin and then eastward to King George Sound. The modelling is principally based on Stanner's concepts of estate ownership and interpenetrative ranges, and is developed regionally through review of ethnohist…
Test Excavation At The Oyster Harbour Stone Fish Traps, King George Sound, Western Australia: An Investigation Aimed at Determining the Construction Method and Maximum Age of the Structures
Several stone structures on the northern foreshore of Oyster Harbour, King George Sound, Western Australia, are documented in ethnohistorical accounts and traditionally regarded as ‘fish traps’ maintained and used by resident Aboriginal groups, around the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. Test excavation at one structure (‘Trap 7’), undertaken at the request of the local Aboriginal community, did show the structure’s mode of construction,…
Late Quaternary Aboriginal hunter-gatherer occupation of the Greater Swan Region, south-western Australia
The Greater Swan Region is an archaeological study area on the Indian Ocean coast in south-western Australia. It covers the central Swan Coastal Plain and the adjacent part of the formerly emergent Rottnest Shelf. Assessment of Aboriginal hunter-gatherer activity throughout this late Quaternary coastal landscape is based on dated records of open-air sites within their environmental settings, informed by historical accounts of mainland subsistence…
Archaeology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geology (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 works) · Radiocarbon dating (4 works) · Geology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Oceanography (3 works)