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Palaeo-ecology and Pleistocene human occupation in south central Tasmania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Cosgrove ,
Jim Allen  and
Brendan Marshall
Brendan Marshall
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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Abstract

Evidence for the late-Pleistocene and early-Holocene settlement of Tasmania is now offered by a growing number of sites in a variety of landscapes; among the more remarkable finds are cave-sites with evidence for human settlement of periglacial uplands before 30,000 BP. Good faunal assemblages and environmental records allow the reconstruction of a subsistence system different in character from those modelled on a European Pleistocene prototype.

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 242 , March 1990 , pp. 59 - 78
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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