Rupert Gerritsen: Australia and the origins of agriculture Archaeopress: Oxford, 2008, British Archaeological Reports International Series 1874, iii + 205 pp, 28 figures, maps, plans and drawings, ￡37.00,ISBN 9781407303543

摘要

Was there 'agriculture' in Australia before Europe-ans? The central thesis in Rupert Gerritsen'smonograph is that Aboriginal societies in Australiahad evolved various food production and settlementsystems that could be classed as Neolithic agriculture.This contrasts to conventional representations ofuniform and nomadic hunter-gatherer societies acrossAustralia whose members were food collectors butnot producers.