The archaeology of Mungo and the Willandra Lakes
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6038558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Allen (0000-0001-8199-7364, University of Auckland, corresponding author), Simon Holdaway (0000-0002-9948-3182, Technology Holding (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 96-106 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0728-4896 • E-ISSN: 1834-4453 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2009.tb00052.x |
| OpenAlex | W1971042105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 48 |
Reviewing archaeological research in the Willandra Lakes area over the past forty years shows a number of methodological and conceptual problems. One of these is the use of ethnographic models of Aboriginal behaviour to organise the archaeological data. Such models privilege spatial over temporal relationships and minimise the extent of archaeological changes over time. Of research to date, it is Bowler's correlations of archaeological and hydrographic changes since the Late Pleistocene which best match the limited archaeological data available. A comparison of the Pleistocene archaeology from the Willandra Lakes and Tasmania reveals time‐averaged records that are amenable to the analysis of patterns of mobility and material use, but not of functionally defined sites nor of typologically defined artefact assemblages. The periodicity and intensity of human occupation of the Willandra Lakes can be studied using large samples of stone artefacts drawn from wide areas, allied with a strategy of dating of land units based on multiple C14 and Optical dates. Such a strategy requires the reconsideration of the relationships between behaviour, function, space and time and a reformulation of much of our existing knowledge of the archaeology of Pleistocene Australia
Archaeological record · Archaeology · Geography · Pleistocene · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Quantitative assessment of the oxygen isotope composition of fish otoliths from Lake Mungo, Australia
Lake Mungo, Archaeology of
The Archaeology of the Willandra
A Retrospective Review of Richard A. Gould's Living Archaeology
Exploratory GIS
Is There Such a Thing as Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology
The survival of artefacts from different historical phases in shallow open sites and the need for spit excavations
Depositional history and archaeology of the central Lake Mungo lunette, Willandra Lakes, southeast Australia
Establishing the integrity and stratigraphic origin of stone artefact scatters on the surface of the Lake Mungo lunette in south-eastern Australia
Initial results and observations on a radiocarbon dating program in the Riverland region of South Australia
A new Late Pleistocene fauna from arid coastal India
Minimum Analytical Nodules and lithic activities at site W2, Hunter Valley, New South Wales
Aboriginal earth mounds of the Calperum Floodplain (Murray Darling Basin, South Australia)
Long History, Deep Time
Use Beyond Manufacture
Earth oven cookery and cuisines in Aboriginal Australia
Archaeology on the edge
Mobility and subsistence at the Willandra Lakes
Archaeologists and Indigenous People
Papers in Economic Prehistory
Aboriginal man and environment in Australia.
A prehistory of Australia, New Guinea, and Sahul
Lithics ‘Down Under’
Settlement, raw material, and lithic procurement in the central Mojave Desert
Rocks are heavy
Sahul in Review
Alternative timescales
Aboriginal (pre)history and Australian archaeology
The Direct Historical Approach, Analogical Reasoning, and Theory in Americanist Archaeology
Describing and comparing archaeological spatial structures
Taphonomic Effects of Erosion on Deliberately Buried Bodies
Variability in the Chronology of Late Holocene Aboriginal Occupation on the Arid Margin of Southeastern Australia
Stone Tools as Cultural Markers
Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior
The Seasonal Factor in Human Culture Illustrated from the Life of a Contemporary Nomadic Group
Assemblage variability in the Willandra Lakes
Absence of evidence or evidence of absence? Understanding the chronology of Indigenous occupation of western New South Wales, Australia
East and west
Archaeological excavations at Mungo
Years of fishery in western New South Wales
Reinterpreting the 1969–1972 Willandra Lakes archaeological surveys
Willandra Lakes Archaeological Investigations 1968–98
Willandra Lakes revisited
Mortuary behaviour on the Hay Plain
Taphonomy of Mungo B assemblage
Radiocarbon dates from midden sites in the lower Darling River area of western New South Wales
Redating Australia's oldest human remains
Pleistocene human footprints from the Willandra Lakes, southeastern Australia
The implications of time-averaging for reconstructing the land-use patterns of early tool-using hominids
Pleistocene human remains from Australia
Social Theory, Ecology and Epistemology
The Bagundji of the darling basin
Footprints in the sand
First-order radiocarbon dating of Australian shell-middens
From the perspective of time
Technological organization and settlement in southwest Tasmania after the glacial maximum
Concepts of Time and Approaches to Analogical Reasoning in Historical Perspective
Ethnographic Interpretations of the Prehistory of Western Arnhem Land
An Assessment and Archaeological Application of Cortex Measurement in Lithic Assemblages
Hunter-gatherer burials and the creation of persistent places in southeastern Australia
Time perspectives, palimpsests and the archaeology of time
| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 1,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |