@article{4077452cd34c4922a4123b99e8af77d2,
title = "Fauna on the Floodplains: Late Holocene Culture and Landscape on the Sub-coastal Plains of Northern Australia",
abstract = "This paper describes the faunal record from a late Holocene archaeological site located on the freshwater wetlands of the South Alligator River and compares it with that from the Adelaide River, in the Northern Territory. The information characterizes freshwater wetland resources and their use by Aboriginal people, providing a snapshot of life on the floodplains immediately prior to European contact. Although the two wetland systems appear similar, and extractive technology in the form of bone points is also similar, the faunal assemblages show that Aboriginal hunting strategies differed between the two areas. These differences can be explained by variations in regional topography and seasonality of site use.Brockwell, Sally, and Ken Aplin. 2020. Fauna on the floodplains: late Holocene culture and landscape on the sub-coastal plains of northern Australia. In Papers in Honour of Ken Aplin, ed. Julien Louys, Sue O{\textquoteright}Connor, and Kristofer M. Helgen. Records of the Australian Museum 72(5): 225–236.",
keywords = "Archaeology, Bone points, Faunal remains, Late Holocene, Northern Australia",
author = "Sally Brockwell and Ken Aplin",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP120100512). We acknowledge the assistance of Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in curating the materials from Kina and the Adelaide River and for providing access to the collections. We thank the Traditional Owners of Kakadu National Park and the Wairuk Aboriginal Corporation, who granted permission for the original fieldwork in Kakadu (1981) and Adelaide River (1993 and 1995). For the Adelaide River faunal assemblages, Dr Ian Walters and Dr Scott Mitchell (formerly of Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University) assisted with initial identifications; Dr Helen Larson (former Curator of Fishes at MAGNT) made expert identifications on fish; Dr Paul Horner (former Curator of Vertebrates, MAGNT) and Dr Dirk Megirian (Museum of Central Australia) assisted with the identification of mammals, birds, and reptiles; and Kim Akerman (University of Western Australia) analysed the bone points. We thank Kay Dancey and ANU Carto-GIS for the production of Fig. 1. We also thank Professor Jane Balme (University of Western Australia) and another anonymous reviewer for their helpful suggestions. Funding Information: Acknowledgements. This research was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP120100512). We acknowledge the assistance of Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in curating the materials from Kina and the Adelaide River and for providing access to the collections. We thank the Traditional Owners of Kakadu National Park and the Wairuk Aboriginal Corporation, who granted permission for the original fieldwork in Kakadu (1981) and Adelaide River (1993 and 1995). For the Adelaide River faunal assemblages, Dr Ian Walters and Dr Scott Mitchell (formerly of Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University) assisted with initial identifications; Dr Helen Larson (former Curator of Fishes at MAGNT) made expert identifications on fish; Dr Paul Horner (former Curator of Vertebrates, MAGNT) and Dr Dirk Megirian (Museum of Central Australia) assisted with the identification of mammals, birds, and reptiles; and Kim Akerman (University of Western Australia) analysed the bone points. We thank Kay Dancey and ANU Carto-GIS for the production of Fig. 1. We also thank Professor Jane Balme (University of Western Australia) and another anonymous reviewer for their helpful suggestions. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Brockwell, Aplin. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "25",
doi = "10.3853/J.2201-4349.72.2020.1728",
language = "English",
volume = "72",
pages = "225--236",
journal = "Records of the Australian Museum",
issn = "0067-1975",
publisher = "Scientific Publications",
number = "5",
}
