"The dome of thought, the palace of the soul" : interpreting the craniological morphology of ancient and near-contemporary Australian Aborigines

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"The dome of thought, the palace of the soul" : interpreting the craniological morphology of ancient and near-contemporary Australian Aborigines

Title remainder

interpreting the craniological morphology of ancient and near-contemporary Australian Aborigines

Instantiates

• "The dome of thought, the palace of the soul" : interpreting the craniological morphology of ancient and near-contemporary Australian Aborigines

Publication

• 1998

Note

"July 1998"

Accompanying material

1 computer disk

Contents

Background to the study; Research since the 1960s; Review of literature relevant to Aboriginal craniometry; Aims of this study -- Ch. 2: Craniometric data: near contemporary data; Freedman & Wood (1977) - Broadbeach; Freedman (1964) - coastal New South Wales; Pietrusewsky (1984); Murray River Basin; Northern Queensland; Southern Queensland; Coastal New South Wales; Northern Territory; South Australia; Swanport; Victoria; Western Australia; Pardoe & Donlan (1991) - Keppel Islands and Rockhampton region; Blackwood & Simpson (1973) - central Murray River; Margetts (1975) - Western Australian material; Willis (1991) - Darling River system; Hrdlicka (1928); Gedge (1991) - Queensland; Dowling (n.d.) - South Australia and coastal New South Wales; Van Holst (1982) - coastal Queensland and New South Wales; Ancient data; Keilor; Lake Nitchie; Mossgiel; Cohuna; Nacurrie; Talgai; Lake Tandou; King Island; Mount Cameron West; Cossack; Willandra Lakes; WLH 1; WLH 3; WLH 19; WLH50; Coobool Creek; Kow Swamp; Roonka -- Ch. 3: Sex determination -- Ch. 4: Interobserver error: near contemporary crania; Ancient crania -- Ch. 5: Trade and trade routes: parameters for geneflow in Aboriginal Australia: functions of trade in Aboriginal society; trade routes -- Ch. 6: Trade routes - statistical analysis -- Ch. 7: Regional analysis -- Ch.8: Analysis of Pleistocene and early/mid-Holocene cranial material: methods: univariate statistics; multivariate statistics -- Univariate statistical results -- Multivariate statistical results -- Ch. 9 : Discussion: General comments; Trade routes: routes for geneflow?; The Pleistocene revisited; Willandra Lakes Hominid 1; Willandra Lakes Hominid 3; Keilor; Nitchie; Tandou; Willandra Lakes Hominid 50; Kow Swamp; Two populations or one? -- Appendices: Craniometric data used in this thesis; Numbers of crania within each region; Numbers of male and female crania by region and language group; Trade and Pituri; Trade routes: trunk and local; Tribal configurations within regions

Extent

1 v. (various pagings), 61 transparencies (overlays), 13 sheets +

Governing access note

Open access - reading. Partial copying & use. Not for Inter-Library Loan

Record ID

u380688

Stock number

MAR07/063

System details

System requirements: Macintosh