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FURTHER READINGS • 4 4 9
produced only limited cultural change. C. C. Macknight, "Macassans and
Aborigines," Oceania 42:283-321 (1972), discusses the Macassan visits,
while D. Walker, ed., Bridge and Barrier: The Natural and Cultural History
of Torres Strait (Canberra: Australian National University, 1972), discusses
connections at Torres Strait. Both connections are also discussed in
the above-cited books by Flood, White and O'Connell, and Allen et al.
Early eyewitness accounts of the Tasmanians are reprinted in N. J. B.
Plomley, The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802
(Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1983), N. J. B. Plomley, Friendly Mission:
The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-
1834 (Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1966), and
Edward Duyker, The Discovery of Tasmania: Journal Extracts from the
Expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne,
1642 and 1772 (Hobart: St. David's Park Publishing, 1992). Papers debating
the effects of isolation on Tasmanian society include Rhys Jones, "The
Tasmanian Paradox," pp. 189-284 in R. V. S. Wright, ed., Stone Tools as
Cultural Markers (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies,
1977); Rhys Jones, "Why did the Tasmanians stop eating fish?" pp. 11-
48 in R. Gould, ed., Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1978); D. R. Horton, "Tasmanian adaptation,"
Mankind 12:28-34 (1979); I. Walters, "Why did the Tasmanians
stop eating fish?: A theoretical consideration," Artefact 6:71-77 (1981);
and Rhys Jones, "Tasmanian Archaeology," Annual Reviews of Anthropology
24:423-46 (1995). Results of Robin Sim's archaeological excavations
on Flinders Island are described in her article "Prehistoric human
occupation on the King and Furneaux Island regions, Bass Strait," pp.
358-74 in Marjorie Sullivan et al., eds., Archaeology in the North (Darwin:
North Australia Research Unit, 1994).
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Relevant readings cited under previous chapters include those on East
Asian food production (Chapters 4-10), Chinese writing (Chapter 12),
Chinese technology (Chapter 13), and New Guinea and the Bismarcks and
Solomons in general (Chapter 15). James Matisoff, "Sino-Tibetan linguistics:
Present state and future prospects," Annual Reviews of Anthropology
20:469-504 (1991), reviews Sino-Tibetan languages and their wider rela-