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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.049
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
... Science in place is part of a wider interdisciplinary project, Strata: deserts past, present and future. It examines the spatial construction of knowledge around the archaeologically significant site, Puritjarra, in Australia's Western Desert. It uses a ‘history of ideas’ approach...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 322–337.
Published: 24 February 2021
... et al. 2014; Skoglund et al. 2015; Freedman and Wayne 2017; Oetjens et al. 2018). Archaeological estimates of the divergence time between wolves and dogs is approximately 15,000-36,000 years BP (Germonpre et al. 2009; Germonpre et al. 2012; Larson et al. 2012; Skoglund et al. 2015; Frantz et al. 2016...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 593–607.
Published: 16 October 2020
... lakes. They guided people safely across hundreds of kilometers of desert, locating the places where water sources reach up closest to the earth’s surface from the underground lakes and waterways that flow beneath the continent. The dingo’s status in Aboriginal culture is celebrated in the naming...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 534–549.
Published: 25 February 2021
... et al. 2017b, Rees et al. 2019). Probability of detecting large mammals and emus on camera traps (Caughley et al. 1980, Wallach et al. 2010). 2021 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 41 (3) 535 Mills et al. Figure 1 Study region locations (grey squares): a) Strzelecki Desert and b) Moondiepitchnie...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 298–321.
Published: 30 September 2020
... estimates, arguing that they arose from the mixing of upper and lower layers of soil and, in particular, the intrusion of younger fragments of bone into lower and older levels (Gollan 1984). The oldest reliably dated archaeological remains of dingoes yield ages of at least 3000 years (Corbett 2006; Smith...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): fmi–660.
Published: 28 October 2021
... estimates, arguing that they arose from the mixing of upper and lower layers of soil and, in particular, the intrusion of younger fragments of bone into lower and older levels (Gollan 1984). The oldest reliably dated archaeological remains of dingoes yield ages of at least 3000 years (Corbett 2006; Smith...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 145–191.
Published: 10 August 2023
... Deserts. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge university Press, New York. 406 p. Steen, V. A., Tingley, M. W., Paton, P. C. and Elphick, C. S. 2020. Spatial thinning and class balancing: Key choices lead to variation in the performance of species distribution models with citizen science data. Methods...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 169–174.
Published: 07 February 2013
... of Novel Materials 1 189 206 James, A.I. and Eldridge, D.J. 2007. Reintroduction of fossorial native mammals and potential impacts on ecosystem processes in an Australian desert landscape. Biological Conservation 138: 351-359. Reintroduction of fossorial native mammals and potential impacts...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/9780980327205
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 154–160.
Published: 01 December 2017
...: Plenary 4 So, if they carry fewer sheep anyway, kangaroos aren t MIKE ARCHER: On the other hand, we do have as hard on the land. They carry fewer sheep; when the to remember that goats are the possible cause of the drought comes along they must be able to buffer it. That s Sahara Desert. the thinking...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (3-4): 158–165.
Published: 17 March 2014
... appropriate programmes of research and management are implemented now. Allen, H., 1983. 19th C. faunal change in western NSW and N-W Victoria. Pp. 1-69. Working Papers in Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, Maori Studies, University of Auckland: Auckland. Working Papers in Anthropology...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (3): 321–331.
Published: 14 March 2013
... Australian Committee. Fitzhardinge, Guy, 2010. ‘Production Lands, Philanthropy and Biodiversity’, in Robin, Libby, Chris Dickman and Mandy Martin (eds). Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing: 284-299. Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve 284 299 Flader...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 24 (4): 197–204.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... Archaeological discoveries from the Walls of China lunette on the eastern edge of Lake Mungo led to the region receiving international prominence. Human skeletal remains, stone tools, hearths and shell middens from this location provide evidence of human occupation of the region about 40 000 years ago. It thus...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 788–809.
Published: 20 October 2011
... River floodplain is not well documented but its appearance can be inferred from historical records of the early European settlers (Bawden 1979; Farwell 1973; McFarlane 1980), surveyors maps (e.g. Wilson 1842 in McSwan 1992) and archaeological records (McBryde et al 1982). The river supported a riparian...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 329–374.
Published: 01 June 2017
... managed the vegetation in the Blue Mountains, and that there is ample archaeological evidence of Aboriginal presence throughout the Mountains (Attenbrow 2010). Gammage s thesis may have applied to some or all of the area but the evidence he has adduced is misleading and/ or capable of other...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 1–148.
Published: 08 December 2023
.... The Archaeology of Australia s Deserts. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge university Press, New York. 406 p. Steen, V. A., Tingley, M. W., Paton, P. C. and Elphick, C. S. 2020. Spatial thinning and class balancing: Key choices lead to variation in the performance of species distribution models with citizen...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 228–256.
Published: 01 January 2018
... places, some of the natural places were very extensive. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (2004) identified the scope of the Register as broad stretches of coastline, desert, forest and national parks, as well as isolated geological monuments and small areas which might provide habitats for endangered...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (4): 518–536.
Published: 01 September 2017
... as early as 1882 but it wasn t until the late 1920s that farms began to be deserted on a large scale (Legg 1986). By 1930 there were more than 600 square kilometres of abandoned farmland and about 650 square kilometres of additional farmland in a serious state of neglect, representing close to 70...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 1–675.
Published: 04 October 2024
...., Grenier, J.L., Heller, N.E. and Aronson, M.F.J. 2021. The Biological Deserts Fallacy: Cities in Their Landscapes Contribute More than We Think to Regional Biodiversity. Bioscience 71: 148-160. doi: httpsdoi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa155. Tan, H.-A., Harrison, L., Nelson, J., Lokic, M., Rayner, J.P...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1991
10.7882/CAFF.1991
EISBN: 0-9599951-5-3