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Modelling hunter-gatherer settlement patterns: an Australian case study.

Publication: Archaeology in Oceania
Publication Date: 01-OCT-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1009 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Modelling hunter-gatherer settlement patterns: an Australian case study.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
By M. Pickering, BAR International Series 1103, 2003. ISBN 1 84171 481 X. Pp.240. UKP 35.

This BAR publication of Michael Pickering's PhD is a study of settlement and subsistence in an inland region of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Its focus is on issues of scale, territoriality and the relative contribution of social and environmental factors to regional organisation. Though relevant to both archaeology and anthropology, the research is in essence an ethnographic study which aims to reconstruct settlement patterns from oral testimony.

Chapter 1 provides a background to the study, the author's previous work in the region as an anthropologist for an Aboriginal land council and introduces the Garawa people with whom the research was carried out. Chapter 2 discusses theoretical issues underlying the ecological study of hunter-gatherers and weighs up alternative approaches.

No anthropological thesis written in the last decade of so could (or arguably should) avoid some...

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