The Barrow Island archaeology project: the dynamism of maritime societies in northern Australia

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University of Western Australia
University of Queensland
James Cook University
California State University, Sacramento
Stanford University
Western Australian Museum

This project will study human occupation from exceptionally rich sites on Barrow Island, located off northwest Australia, profiling a continuous reliance on coastal resources until isolation. Whaling and pearling started in the nineteenth century using Indigenous labourers after a 7,000 year gap in human occupation.

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50,000 years of archaeological site stratigraphy and micromorphology in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, Western Australia
Authors
Ward, Ingrid; Veth, Peter; Prossor, Lauren; Denham, Timothy; Ditchfield, K; Manne, Tiina; Kendrick, P; Byrne, Chae; Hook, F; Troitzsch, Ulrike
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.012
Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia
Authors
Veth, P.; Ward, I.; Manne, T.; Ulm, S.; Ditchfield, K.; Dortch, J.; Hook, F.; Petchey, F.; Hogg, A.; Questiaux, D.; Demuro, M.; Arnold, L.; Spooner, N.; Levchenko, V.; Skippington, J.; Byrne, C.; Basgall, M.; Zeanah, D.; Belton, D.; Helmholz, P.; et al.
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Elsevier
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Not listed.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.05.002
Settling the West: 50 000 years in a changing land
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Journal article
Authors
Dortch, Joe; Balme, Jane; McDonald, Jo; Morse, Kate; O'Connor, Susan; Veth, Peter
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Royal Society of Western Australia Inc.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/204634