"This unique guide provides an artistic and archaeological journey deep into human history, exploring the petroglyphic and pictographic forms of rock art produced by the earliest humans to contemporary peoples around the world. * Summarizes the diversity of views on ancient rock art from leading international scholars * Includes new discoveries and research, illustrated with over 160 images (including 30 color plates) from major rock ar ..."
"Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues–oriented overview of hunter–gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of S ..."
"This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through the Indo-Malay Archipelago in the 1850s, was the first to draw attention to the group. The results reveal a complex and fascinating history coverin ..."
Land, rights, laws issues of native title by PeterVeth 8 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-0-85575-439-6, ISBN: 0-85575-439-7
"Why would huntergatherers (not agriculturalists) that live along waterways in the
Lower Pecos Canyonlands with abundant water supply sacrifice the peyote-deer
to bring rain? And, finally, does this interpretation aid in the interpretation of other
pictographic elements in the rock art. Let us start at the beginning, the origins of
peyotism. Considerable controversy exists regarding the origins of peyotism and
the content of the ear ..."
"The Montebello Islands are a cluster of small, low relief land masses, comprised of ancient limestone, with skeletal soils, sparse vegetation and shifting sand bodies. They lie some 80 km from the coastline, representing far flung 'high points' on the once extensive arid coastal plains of north-west Australia. Barrow Island lies between the mainland and the islands. More famous as the first nuclear testing site used by the British in th ..."
"Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, ..."
Islands in the Interior The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia No. 3 by Pater Marius Veth Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1993 by International Monographs In Prehistory,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-1-879621-07-7, ISBN: 1-879621-07-X
"R. 1974: The Jigalong Mob: Aboriginal Victors of the Desert Crusade. Menlo Park
: Cummings. Tonkinson. R. 1978: The Martu Aborigines: Living the Dream in
Australia's Desert. Fort Worth, TX: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. Veth, P. 1989:
Islands in the Interior: A model for the colonization of Australia's arid zone.
Archaeology in Oceania, 24, 81–92. Veth, P. 1993: Islands in the Interior: The
Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations within ..."
"Peter Marius Veth, Sue O'Connor, Matthew Spriggs ... In C. Baak, M. Bakker, and
D. van der Meij (eds), Tales from a Concave World: Liber Amicorum Bert
Voorhoeve, pp. 216–45. Leiden: Department of Languages and Cultures of
Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University. ... Flannery, T.F., P. Bellwood,
J.P. White, A. Moore, Boeadi, and G. Nitihaminoto. ... and B. Fankhauser (eds),
Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia ..."
East of Wallace's Line(1st Edition) Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region (Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, V. 16) by Sue O'connor, PeterVeth Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2000 by Crc Press ISBN-13: 978-90-5809-319-6, ISBN: 90-5809-319-0
"This work gives an overview of the activities of the past and present maritime cultures of the Indo-Pacific region. It follows a chronological course, beginning with the prehistoric and ending with the eventual disappearance of maritime societies in Indonesia."