Richard A GOULD: Puntutjarpa Rockshelter and the Australian Desert / Signed 1st

by GOULD, Richard A., Michael ARCHER, Nancy BRONSTEIN and Helene A

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Puntutjarpa Rockshelter and the Australian Desert Culture Author: GOULD, Richard A., Michael ARCHER, Nancy BRONSTEIN and Helene A. MARTIN Title: Puntutjarpa Rockshelter and the Australian Desert Culture Publication: New York, The American Museum of Natural History, 1977 Edition: First Edition Description: Quarto, 187 pages with 57 tables and 94 illustrations. Binder's cloth retaining the front cover of the original wrapper; cloth a little marked; wrapper a little tanned; overall an excellent copy. Loosely inserted are two enlarged versions of figures 66 and 67, both aligned and taped to allow easier study; and a corrected version of Table 45. Inscribed and signed in ink by pioneering American desert field archaeologist Richard Allen Gould (1939-2020) (as 'Dick Gould') on the title page. 'Dick's excavations at Puntutjarpa Rockshelter not only yielded significant evidence of Aboriginal lives in the Arid Zone, but was one of the early, substantive, well-documented archaeological assemblages lodged with the Western Australian Museum. Re-analysis of the faunal assemblage has proven valuable in reappraising desert lives and ecosystems and recent re-excavation and use of some of Gould's charcoal samples from the Western Australian Museum collections has changed the interpretations of the site' (Brown University website). Also with the later colour pictorial bookplate of desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022) on the front pastedown. Anthropological Papers of t

• Publisher: The American Museum of Natural History
• Year: 1977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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