Developing a Landscape History as Part of a Survey Strategy: A Critique of Current Settlement System Approaches based on Case Studies from Western New South Wales,Australia |
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Authors: | Simon Holdaway Patricia Fanning |
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Institution: | (1) Anthropology Department, University of Auckland, Private Bag, 92109 Auckland, New Zealand;(2) Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
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Abstract: | In Australia, geomorphological change since the late nineteenth century ensures surface artifact visibility but the contribution
of full coverage regional survey to an understanding of past landscape use is limited by the lack of easily datable artifacts.
Here, we describe a multi-stage survey strategy based around intensive archaeological, geomorphological and chronological
studies as an alternative to traditional site-based approaches. We view the formation of the archaeological record as a sedimentary
process and use a geomorphological approach to understand the history of landscape use from surface artifact scatters. We
pay particular attention to recording datasets with reference to the timescales over which they have accumulated, and we discuss
the types of behavioral inferences that can be drawn from the results of intensive survey, illustrated using the results from
our western New South Wales research. |
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Keywords: | Survey Geoarchaeology Australia Chronology |
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