Peopled Landscapes : Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes.

Preliminary -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Peopled landscapes: The impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian Quaternary science -- 2. Hay Cave: A 30,000-year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland, Australia -- 3. An early-Holocene Aboriginal coastal landscape at Cape Duquesne, southwest Victoria, Australia -- 4. Aboriginal exploitation of toxic nuts as a late-Holocene subsistence strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests -- 5. Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast -- 6. Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: Modelling the historical emergence of Kerewo regional polities on the island of Goaribari, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea -- 7. Cranial metric, age and isotope analysis of human remains from Huoshiliang, western Gansu, China -- 8. Not for the squeamish: A new microfossil indicator for the presence of humans -- 9. Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate -- 10. Nature, culture and time: Contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden -- II. Biogeography and Palaeoecology -- 11. The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: A Southern Hemisphere climatic connection -- 12. When did the mistletoe family Loranthaceae become extinct in Tasmania? Review and conjecture -- 13. Wind v water: Glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes -- 14. Late-Quaternary vegetation history of Tasmania from pollen records -- 15. Holocene environments of the sclerophyll woodlands of the Wet Tropics of northeastern Australia -- 16. Holocene vegetation change at treeline, Cropp Valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand -- 17. Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in Lake Purrumbete, western Victoria.

18. Fire on the mountain: A multi-scale, multi-proxy assessment of the resilience of cool temperate rainforest to fire in Victoria's Central Highlands -- 19. Multi-disciplinary investigation of 19th century European settlement of the Willunga Plains, South Australia -- 20. Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: Exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity -- 21. Surface ∂13C in Australia: A quantified measure of annual precipitation? -- 22. Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland condition -- 23. Regional genetic differentiation in the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus Gould).

This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the contribution of humans.

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