The Archaeology of Montebello Island, North-West Australia: Late Quaternary Foragers on an arid coastline

by Pater Marius Veth

This paper reports on archaeological analysis carried out on assemblages recovered from two stratified cave sites on Campbell Island in the Montebello group in northwest Australia. These sites provide unique insights into human responses to the drowning of the extensive arid plains of north-west Australia following the Last Glacial Maximum. Rich faunal assemblages have been recovered which date to the period 30,000 - 7000 BP as the local environmental context changed in response to the post-glacial marine transgression.

84 pages, Paperback

First published December 10, 1668