Devils Lair
Occupation intensity and land-use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11852398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Balme (0000-0003-1387-9379, Archaeology (M257), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 179-186 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-2417 • E-ISSN: 2470-0363 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03122417.2014.11682034 |
| OpenAlex | W2267177894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
When Charlie Dortch first came to Perth to take a job at the Western Australian Museum, he almost immediately went into the field to excavate at the site of Devils Lair. The site has contributed much to knowledge of human occupation in Pleistocene Australia. Because of mixing in its deepest deposits, however, there has been some confusion about the timing of first occupation in the site. Devils Lair has also been used to suggest greater occupation of the southwest region of Australia during the last glacial maximum (LGM). This review of the evidence from Devils Lair and other sites in the southwest suggests that the evidence for occupation earlier than 46,000 years ago, and of more intensive occupation during the LGM, is equivocal at best
Archaeology · Confusion · Ethnology · Geography · Holocene · Last Glacial Maximum · Pleistocene · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |