Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Environmental Change in the Human Occupation of Australia
AU  - Kershaw AP
AU  - Moss PT
AU  - Van der Kaars S
Y1  - 1997
VL  - 35
IS  - 2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 153
EP  - 161
KW  - Late Quaternary
KW  - Human impact
KW  - Human migration
KW  - Vegetation history
KW  - Biomass burning
KW  - Australia
KW  - Southeast Asia
N2  - 
N2  - The majority of long Quaternary pollen records from the Australasian and Indonesian regions show clear evidence of precipitation variation which relates closely to global glacial/interglacial oscillations. However, they also indicate sustained changes in vegetation towards more sclerophyllous or disturbed communities which, from associated changes in charcoal representation, can be attributed to increased burning. Close examination of these records indicates preferred times of change which show some relationship to the archaeological record. It is concluded that those changes around 40,000 and perhaps around 60, 000 years ago most likely relate to times of arrival or developments in technology of people and that there is a fair possibility that the initial arrival and impact of modern people occurred much earlier, perhaps in excess of 200,000 years ago.
ER  -