Peopled Landscapes

Introduction Peopled landscapes: The impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian Quaternary science  – Bruno David, Simon G. Haberle and Donald Walker I. Archaeology and Perceptions of Landscape Hay Cave: A 30,000-year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland, Australia – Harry Lourandos, Bruno David, Nicola Roche, Cassandra Rowe, Angela Holden and Simon J. Clarke An early-Holocene Aboriginal coastal landscape at Cape Duquesne, southwest Victoria, Australia – Thomas Richards Aboriginal exploitation of toxic nuts as a late-Holocene subsistence strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests – Åsa Ferrier and Richard Cosgrove Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast – Ian J. McNiven, Bruno David, Ken Aplin, Jerome Mialanes, Brit Asmussen, Sean Ulm, Patrick Faulkner, Cassandra Rowe and Thomas Richards Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: Modelling the historical emergence of Kerewo regional polities on the island of Goaribari, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea – Bryce Barker, Lara Lamb, Bruno David, Kenneth Korokai, Alois Kuaso and Joanne Bowman Cranial metric, age and isotope analysis of human remains from Huoshiliang, western Gansu, China – John Dodson, Fiona Bertuch, Liang Chen and Xiaoqiang Li Not for the squeamish: A new microfossil indicator for the presence of humans – Mike Macphail, Mary Casey and Matthew Kelly Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate – Christian A. Kull and Haripriya Rangan Nature, culture and time: Contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden – Lesley Head and Joachim Regnéll II. Biogeography and Palaeoecology The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: A Southern Hemisphere climatic connection – Marie-Pierre Ledru and Janelle Stevenson When did the mistletoe family Loranthaceae become extinct in Tasmania? Review and conjecture – Mike Macphail, Greg Jordan, Feli Hopf and Eric Colhoun Wind v water: Glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes – Jim M. Bowler, Richard Gillespie, Harvey Johnston and Katarina Boljkovac Late-Quaternary vegetation history of Tasmania from pollen records – Eric A. Colhoun and Peter W. Shimeld Holocene environments of the sclerophyll woodlands of the Wet Tropics of northeastern Australia – Patrick T. Moss, Richard Cosgrove, Åsa Ferrier and Simon G. Haberle Holocene vegetation change at treeline, Cropp Valley, Southern Alps, New Zealand – Matt S. McGlone and Les Basher Vegetation and water quality responses to Holocene climate variability in Lake Purrumbete, western Victoria – John Tibby, Dan Penny, Paul Leahy and A. Peter Kershaw Fire on the mountain: A multi-scale, multi-proxy assessment of the resilience of cool temperate rainforest to fire in Victoria's Central Highlands – Patrick J. Baker, Rohan Simkin, Nina Pappas, Alex McLeod and Merna McKenzie Multi-disciplinary investigation of 19th century European settlement of the Willunga Plains, South Australia – Tim Denham, Carol Lentfer, Ellen Stuart, Sophia Bickford and Cameron Barr Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: Exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity – Cassandra Rowe Surface ∂13C in Australia: A quantified measure of annual precipitation? – Chris S.M. Turney Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland condition – Peter Gell Regional genetic differentiation in the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus Gould) – Samantha Fox, Michelle Waycott, David Blair and Jon Luly