The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea
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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea reviews and brings together the latest findings on the archaeology of the Australia-New Guinea region. In 42 new chapters commissioned for this book, 77 leading researchers present the archaeological evidence for Australia and New Guinea's deep-time history. The stories told reveal the astounding richness of Australia and New Guinea's Indigenous cultural history, stories of tens of thousands of years of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and New Guinean adaptation, cultural know-how, and creative ingenuity.

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea reviews and brings together the latest findings on the archaeology of the Australia-New Guinea region. In 42 new chapters commissioned for this book, 77 leading researchers present the archaeological evidence for Australia and New Guinea's deep-time history. The stories told reveal the astounding richness of Australia and New Guinea's Indigenous cultural history, stories of tens of thousands of years of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and New Guinean adaptation, cultural know-how, and creative ingenuity.
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Autorenporträt
Professor Ian J. McNiven (Monash University, and Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) is an anthropological archaeologist who specialises in understanding the long-term development of Australian Indigenous coastal societies with a focus on the archaeology of seascapes and ritual and spiritual relationships with the sea. He is an elected member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In addition to over 180 refereed journal papers and book chapters, his 16 books include The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (OUP, 2018), Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (AltaMira Press, 2005), and Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck (Leicester University Press, 1998). Professor Bruno David (Monash University, and Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) is an archaeologist who specialises in the archaeology of Australia and the western Pacific, landscape archaeology, and rock art. He has long-practiced transdisciplinary approaches to archaeology, investigating the past through multiple disciplinary approaches in partnership research programs requested by local Indigenous communities. He has undertaken field research in Australia, Egypt, Papua New Guinea, the U.S.A., and Vanuatu. He has published hundreds of academic and popular articles on various dimensions of archaeology, and 17 books, the most recent including: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (OUP, 2018), Cave Art (Thames & Hudson, 2017), and Hiri: Archaeology of Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea (University of Hawaii Press, 2017). He currently researches community archaeology with the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation of East Gippsland, southeastern Australia.