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Intensified fishery production at Moreton Bay, southeast Queensland, in the late Holocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ian Walters
Ian Walters*
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Northern Territory University, PO Box 40146, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia
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As the great antiquity of human settlement in Australia becomes clear, so does the distinctive character of human adaptation in the continent. In particular, the Holocene transformation of the Australian climate led to patterns of human ecology with some characteristics of their own, and some common to regions where the Holocene changes led on to agricultural societies. Here is a case-study in that Australian history.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 239 , June 1989 , pp. 215 - 224
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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