A working model of Moreton Island prehistory: MRAP Stage 1
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25120/qar.1.1984.209Abstract
The Moreton Region Archaeological Project (MRAP) was conceived in mid-1977 through a union of a lecturer new to Australia (HJH), a corpus of archaeological and historical information about the Brisbane area, and a small band of keen University of Queensland undergraduate archaeology students who had been meeting informally as a discussion group for the previous year. However, it was not until 1979 when MRAP received a generous input of funds from A.R.G.S. that the project really got off the ground. At this early stage, MRAP's aims were broad and general and not tied to any particular issue of inquiry in Australian archaeology. Essentially MRAP sought to characterise the archaeological record of the Moreton Region via the employment of systematic survey and excavation within three areal units: the subcoastal zone, the coastal strip, and the offshore islands (see Hall 1980a). This paper interprets the results of our investigations of the Moreton Island Component of the Offshore Islands Unit of MRAP - Stage I, and offers a working model of human settlement and subsistence.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1. Authors are responsible for ensuring that any material that has influenced the research or writing has been properly cited and credited both in the text and in the list of references. Contributors are responsible for gaining copyright clearance on figures, photographs or lengthy quotes used in their manuscript that have been published elsewhere.
2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
5. An article will not be published until the signed Author Agreement has been completed and returned to the Editors by the contributor.