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Complex hunter-gatherers: a view from Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Elizabeth Williams
Elizabeth Williams*
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Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, PO Box 4, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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One of the livelier issues in world prehistory on which there is a distinctive view from Australia and Sahul is the variety of pathways to intensification and a social complexity, not necessarily following expectations that derive from precedents in the Zagros or the Mayan forests. This may be more than a function of different ecologies or potential domesticates, for this paper, developing evidence from Victoria already known from Harry Lourandos's work, Sees the crucial impulses as more social in origin than environmentally determined.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 232 , July 1987 , pp. 310 - 321
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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