Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory.(Review)

From: Antiquity | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

HARRY LOURANDOS. xviii+390 pages, 103 figures, 5 tables. 1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-35946-5 hardback [pounds]55; 0-521-35106-5 paperback [pounds]18.95.

It is now barely a short 30 years since the finds at Lake Mungo first announced to the wider world that the Australian continent not only had an archaeological record deeply rooted in the Pleistocene but one that was quite distinctive. There followed a steady flow of remarkable discoveries in the time-ranges between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, not only quite unlike anything that might have been ...

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