Demography, Heritage, and Archaeology: A View from Australia
Author(s): Kevan Edinborough
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Peopling the Past: Critically Evaluating Settlement and Regional Population Estimates with New Methods and Demographic Modeling" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This paper presents a cautionary case study in heritage and archaeology from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which is undergoing a rapid transformation due to an unprecedented program of urban and regional development. Following the author’s previous work in Europe and the Pacific Northwest, a multi-period case study is presented using historical, lithic, and radiometric data. On one hand these results shed new light on mid to late Holocene settlement and demography in the region, but on the other they suggest an alarming bias exists in the archaeological record that directly relates to European colonization.
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Demography, Heritage, and Archaeology: A View from Australia. Kevan Edinborough. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474233)
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Keywords
General
Cultural Heritage
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Dating Techniques
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demography
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Historic
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History
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Holocene
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Lithics
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OSL dating
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Radiocarbon
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Settlement patterns
Geographic Keywords
AUSTRALIA
Spatial Coverage
min long: 111.797; min lat: -44.465 ; max long: 154.951; max lat: -9.796 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 37119.0