Transitions: Pleistocene to Holocene in Australia and Papua New Guinea By Allen, Jim (Editor); O'Connell, James F. (Editor)

Softcover, very good condition, minor shelf/edge wear.

Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd, 1995

The interval between the Last Glacial Maximum, roughly 18,000 radiocarbon years ago, and the mid- Holocene 'climatic optimum', at 5-7000 BP, has long been identified as a time of major change in human affairs. ... these terminal Pleistocene' transitions' represented a fundamental shift in the pattern of human experience and, as such, have been an important focus of archaeological inquiry.' (p.vii) They suggest that Australia appears to differ from the rest of the world.

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