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Origin and development of Australian Aboriginal tropical rainforest culture: a reconsideration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Cosgrove
Richard Cosgrove*
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School of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia
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In contemporary green perceptions, rainforests are an Eden of biodiversity. But they seem also to be a famously hard environment for human subsistence, with foods scattered or high up beyond reach — which is why reports of Palaeo-Indians' flourishing in the Brazilian rainforests have caused surprise. What place do the rainforests have in Aboriginal Australian settlement, as archaeologically perceived?

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 900 - 912
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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