
Pictures of Time Beneath : Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past
by Douglas, Kirsty-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements | p. vii |
Introduction. Science, landscape, heritage and the uses of the deep past | p. 1 |
'Like a precious cameo': Hallett Cove, geological heritage and the glaciological imagination | p. 21 |
Treading on classic ground | p. 22 |
Preservation and change in an 'outdoor museum': a modern diorama | p. 25 |
'Bent upon covering the whole continent with ice': glacial studies in the nineteenth century | p. 35 |
The Battle for Hallett Cove | p. 53 |
Hallett Cove and geological knowledge | p. 69 |
Dirt, hones and the Diprotodons of Lake Callabonna: discovering the lost worlds of vertebrate palaeontology | p. 71 |
1892 | p. 72 |
The lost worlds of Lake Callabonna, 160 000 000 BP - 1970 | p. 75 |
'A world previous to ours', 1795-1892 | p. 87 |
Finding Lake Callabonna, 1892-1901 | p. 101 |
Finding Lake Callabonna again, 1913-1970 | p. 119 |
Skeletons in the cabinet and the lost world of Lake Callabonna | p. 125 |
Lake Mungo, human antiquity and the watered inland: reading the scripture of the landscape | p. 127 |
Beginnings | p. 128 |
Arid glaciation and the land of lakes | p. 133 |
Human antiquity and the scripture of the landscape | p. 145 |
'The desired future' | p. 162 |
Afterword. Quaternary science, landscape and the deep human past | p. 165 |
Endnotes | p. 172 |
References | p. 185 |
Index | p. 207 |
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