scholarly journals Late Quaternary landscapes in Central Australia: sedimentary history and palaeoecology of Puritjarra rock shelter

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 747-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Central Australia

scholarly journals Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow regime changes during the middle and late Quaternary in eastern central Australia

Geomorphology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 101 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 109-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald C. Nanson ◽  
David M. Price ◽  
Brian G. Jones ◽  
Jerry C. Maroulis ◽  
Maria Coleman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Regime ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
Central Australia

Comparison of 14C and luminescence chronologies at puritjarra rock shelter, central Australia

1997 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-5) ◽  
pp. 299-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Smith ◽  
J.R. Prescott ◽  
M.J. Head
Keyword(s):  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Central Australia

scholarly journals EarliestMusabanana from the late Quaternary sequence at Fahien Rock Shelter in Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 624-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rathnasiri Premathilake ◽  
Chris O. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Rock Shelter

The Changing Provenance of Red Ochre at Puritjarra Rock Shelter, Central Australia: Late Pleistocene to Present

1998 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 275-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Smith ◽  
B. Fankhauser ◽  
M. Jercher
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
Test Current ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

In this paper we apply geochemical sourcing methods to an assemblage of ochre from archaeological excavations at the Puritjarra rock shelter in western central Australia. Our work indicates that the red ochre in Late Pleistocene contexts at this rock shelter is from Karrku, a subterranean ochre mine still worked today by Walbiri people. Archaeological finds at Puritjarra indicate that exploitation of this source of high-grade red ochre had begun by 32,000 BP and has continued without significant interruption since then. Changes since the Late Pleistocene in the type and quantity of red ochre reaching the Puritjarra shelter, from various sources including Karrku, provide means to test current models of regional prehistory in this part of arid Australia and illustrate some of the potential of this approach for regional studies.

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