Aboriginal earth mounds and ENSO on the Calperum floodplain, Murray-Darling Basin, South Australia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Aboriginal earth mounds and ENSO on the Calperum floodplain, Murray-Darling Basin, South Australia

Published:2024-07-31 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0959-6836
Container-title:The Holocene
language:en
Short-container-title:The Holocene

Author:

Jones Robert¹^ORCID,Roberts Amy¹^ORCID,Westell Craig¹,Moffat Ian¹^ORCID,Jacobsen Geraldine²,Scott Cummings Linda³,

Affiliation:

1. College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Australia

2. Centre for Accelerator Science, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia

3. PaleoResearch Institute, USA

Abstract

This paper presents new data derived from pollen, starch and radiocarbon samples that were collected from six Aboriginal earth (oven) mounds and middens on the Calperum and Pike floodplains, Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), South Australia (SA). Analyses of these samples were undertaken in order to enhance our understanding about the Holocene lifeways of Aboriginal people living in this region. The results from these analyses, combined with published data about the mounds’ contents, relevant ethno-historical information and climate data, allow us to infer that Aboriginal people adopted, in this region, an innovative food production system about 3800 years ago. Further, we argue that the timing of the change suggests this was in response to adverse El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) related weather patterns and consequently fluctuations in both terrestrial and aquatic food resources.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09596836241266397

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