Peter Hiscock's book The Archaeology of Ancient Australia (2008, Routledge) won the John Mulvaney Book Award, a prize given by the Australian Archaeological Association to the most significant contribution to the discipline in that year. The citation stated that "The nominators described this book as being the first wide-ranging overview of problems in Pleistocene and Holocene Australian history for many years. Rather than a bald account of sites and dates, it grapples with the evidence and puts each problem into a coherent, well-argued framework, thus making the book a scholarly, scientific introduction for students and ensuring it will become a starting point for other scholars." The full citation can be read at:

http://www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/book_award/#hiscock