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Introduction Introduction
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Previous Work Previous Work
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Tasmania Tasmania
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Species Composition Species Composition
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Previous Analyses Previous Analyses
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Seasonality Studies Seasonality Studies
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Bennett’s Wallaby Butchery Patterns Bennett’s Wallaby Butchery Patterns
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45 Behavioural inferences from Late Pleistocene Aboriginal Australia: seasonality, butchery, and nutrition in southwest Tasmania
Get accessReader in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Over the last thirty years, he has undertaken fieldwork in most Australian states and, internationally, in France, China, Jordan, and England. His research and teaching experience has been in Late Pleistocene human behavioural ecology, rock art studies, palaeoecology, zooarchaeology, and hunter-gatherer archaeology. His recent faunal research has focused on human prey animal exploitation during the period 40,000–10,000 bp in southwest Tasmania and southwest France. He has published widely on zooarchaeology, lithic analysis, human colonization and settlement of temperate and tropical rainforests, toxic food exploitation, and Aboriginal use of fire.
Jillian Garvey is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow specializing in Late Quaternary Indigenous archaeology. With a background in zoology and archaeology, her main research focus is on the role of native animals in Australian archaeology. She has integrated her zoological background on modern Australian vertebrates and invertebrates by conducting fatty acid nutritional analyses, economic utility or anatomy experiments, and butchery and cooking experiments. These modern experiments are combined with the zooarchaeology and ethnographic record to provide an interpretation of patterns in the archaeological record. With a PhD in palaeontology, Jillian is also interested in studying natural faunal assemblages, and what these can reveal about past palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology.
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Published:05 April 2017
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Abstract
Detailed research into marsupial behavioural ecology and modelling of past Aboriginal exploitation of terrestrial fauna has been scarce. Poor bone preservation is one limiting factor in Australian archaeological sites, but so has been the lack of research concerning the ecology and physiology of Australia’s endemic fauna. Much research has focused on marine and fresh-water shell-fish found in coastal and inland midden sites. Detailed studies into areas such as seasonality of past human occupation and nutritional returns from terrestrial prey species have not had the same attention. This chapter reviews the current level of published Australian research into two aspects of faunal studies, seasonality and nutrition. It describes the patterns from well-researched faunal data excavated from the Ice Age sites in southwest Tasmania. Concentration is on the vertebrate fauna found in seven limestone cave sites to examine any temporal changes to seasonal butchery and identify any differences between seasonally occupied sites.
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