The Pattern and Timing of Prehistoric Settlement in Central Australia

Michael Smith

In a series of papers between 1971 and 1977 three fundamental questions for archaeological research in the arid zone were defined (Golson 1971; Mabbutt 1971; Gould 1971, 1977; Allen 1972, 1974; Bowler 1976; Bowdler 1977). These concern the timing of human dispersal and colonisation in the region, th