Debate continues to rage between enthusiasts for climate change versus humans as a
cause of the catastrophic faunal extinctions that have occurred in the wake of human arrival …

Arguments that megafaunal extinctions in Australia were anthropogenically mediated have
focused on establishing terminal appearance ages. This approach has been underpinned …

The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama …

Australia's human prehistory through more than 40,000 years is the challenging theme of
this masterly survey. John Mulvaney and Johan Kamminga bring together the discoveries …

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the
eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for …

In his presentation of a range of prehistoric data, the author reviews archaeological and
ethnohistorical evidence together with environmental, demographic and socially-oriented …

This study reevaluates the long‐standing observation that human morphology varies with
climate. Data on body mass, the body mass index [BMI; mass (kg)/stature (m) 2], the surface …

Exactly how modern humans evolved is a subject of intense debate. This book deals with
the evolution of modern humans from an archaic ancestor and the differentiation of modern …

There is a “package” of cultural innovations that are claimed to reflect modern human
behaviour. The introduction of the “package” has been associated with the Middle-to-Upper …

We analyzed 370 bp of the first hypervariable region of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
control region in 752 individuals from 17 tribal and four nontribal groups from the Indian …