Deep Histories in Time, or Crossing the Great Divide

Bibliographic Data

ID20078832
AuthorsA Mcgrath (0000-0003-1353-4653, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-05-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLong History, Deep Time (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/lhdt.05.2015.01
OpenAlexW2619024349
ISBN9781925022537
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited33

Long History, Deep Time asks whether it is possible to enlarge the scale and scope of history. 1 If so, the vast shape-shifting continent of Australia may be a good place to start. It hosted a very long human history that endured through the great climatic epochs of the Pleistocene and Holocene. Rising and falling seas carved out new islands and coastlines, creating the larger Ice Age continent of Greater Australia that was connected to current-day New Guinea and Tasmania. Over time, its edges and internal waterways facilitated different kinds of travel, and its people created worlds of their own making

Deep time · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Computer Science · Geology · History · Paleontology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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