Mitchell’s excavations of Aboriginal sites on the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory (e.g. Barlambidj), demonstrated changes in subsistence and technology, beginning approximately 300 years ago, as a result of which phenomenon?Question 16Answera.More frequent ceremonial feasting across northern Australiab.Increased storm activity in the Arafura Seac.Decreased migration of large marine mammalsd.Interaction with Macassan fishermen

Explain how Aboriginal people were able to live off the land over much of the Australian continent.

Pleistocene sites indicate that early Australians were capable of exploiting which environments:Question 17Answera.Aridb.Coastalc.Montaned.All of the abovee.None of the above

The use of the term ‘agriculture’ to describe the subsistence practices of Australian Aboriginal communities has been critiqued by some researchers, because:Question 9Answera.There is no evidence for domesticated plants in Australiab.The suggestion that Australian Aboriginal communities are agriculturalist is seen as buying into earlier concepts of cultural evolution that suggest hunter-gatherer communities are less progressed or civilisedc.Australian societies did not practice planting or harvesting, or manage their landscaped.All of the abovee.A and B

Analyses of radiocarbon dates, occupational sequences and stone tool discard rates indicate Aboriginal populations likely fragmented into refugia during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Australian Archaeology shows Indigenous agency and demonstrate their proactive, rather than reactive, resilience as a living culture.Question 25Select one:TrueFalse