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Notes on a traditional Ainu vessel replica (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron M Smith. David Wescott.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Nukubulavu: An examination of Fijian Mid-sequence ceramics on Vanua Levu, Fiji (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Takaoka. Sharyn Jones.

This paper reports on excavations from field seasons in 2013 and 2014 when major excavations on the main landmass of Vanua Levu, Fiji were conducted at the beach site of Nukubulavu. This site is positioned on a small peninsula in the island’s southeastern Natewa Bay region. Nukubulavu produced ceramic assemblages that extend to all of Fiji’s known culture history. The team also documented a deeply buried probable house floor with diagnostic artifacts that indicate intensive occupation during...

Oceanische Rindenstoffe: mit 24 Zeichnungen von H. Nevermann (1926)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Nevermann. Paul Hambruch.

Open sites and the ethnographic approach to the archaeology of hunter-gatherers (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Peterson.

Over The Edge: functional analysis of Australian stone tools (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johan Kamminga.

Pacific basketmakers: a living tradition: catalog of the 1981 Pacific basketmaker's symposium and exhibition. (Fairbanks, Alaska) Symposium of traditional basketmakers; Honolulu, 1981.05. (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzi Jones.

Palaeoeconomies in the East Alligator River Region, Australia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Woo.

The East Alligator River Region has undergone considerable environmental change throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene, with changing sea levels dramatically altering the ecosystems of this region. Current archaeological models for this region indicate that people adapted their economic activities to successfully exploit these shifting environments. Molluscs have played an important role in the economic activities of these groups and often comprise large portions of the regional assemblages,...

Palaeolithic Reflections: Lithic Technology and Ethnographic Excavation Among Australian Aborigines (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Hayden.

J. Whittaker: Very detailed description of stone tools and use experiments conducted with aboriginal men and women in Australia. Includes some information on manufacture of woomera type “meru” spear throwers (scoop shape with adze stone hafted in handle) and “crude” spears. [Focus is on hyper-detailed descriptions of use of simple stone tools and their manufacture and wear, useful for lithic studies, not very useful for atlatl interests. Most informants had not actually used stone tools since...

Paleoclimate data and behavioral change in the highlands of Papua New Guinea (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Huff.

Climate variability generates both opportunities and limitations for subsistence strategies, as well as related settlement patterns and technologies. While not the only driver of behavioral change, climate is a critical force in shaping patterns of past behavior. This paper presents the results of lithic analysis of three sites from the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea that span 20,000 years of occupation. Additionally, the findings from a summed probability distribution analysis of...

Paleocurrents in a Least-Cost Pathway Model of Human Dispersal from Sunda to Sahul, 65 – 45 Kya (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marisa Borreggine. Evelyn Powell. Richard Meadow. Jerry Mitrovica. Christian Tryon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The timing of human colonization of Sahul, potentially as early as 65 ka (up from the previous 42 ka) has revised our understanding of the dispersal of anatomically modern humans (AMH). This movement represents, to date, the earliest known AMH long distance migration by sea, implying significant levels of complex language, marine technology, and colonization...

People in the landscape: A Biography of two villages (1984)

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. H. Winston-Gregson.

Interpreting the Australian rural landscape is presently an uncommon skill. While developing an archaeological test for historical and geographical locational models, the author, a consultant archaeologist based in Canberra, discovered a string of deserted villages in the eastern Riverina. This paper summarises the historical material about two of the villages to indicate the scope of data that may be overlooked by other disciplines but rediscovered by archaeologically guided research. The...

The Perplexing Complexity of Some New Guinea Communities (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Roscoe.

At contact, a number of New Guinea communities boasted considerable ‘horizontal’ complexity – very large populations (up to 2,500 people) and ceremonial arenas that engaged even more. Many also constructed monumental architectures of organic material and staggering size. These communities included complex fisher-foragers and Big-man horticulturalists, organizations that are commonly identified as only minimally hierarchical. Certainly, their hierarchical institutions were insufficiently...

The pestle and mortar: an ethnographic analogy for archaeology in Arnhem Land (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Peterson.

Piecing together a puzzle - HMB Endeavour and Photogrammetric 3D Reconstruction (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kieran Hosty. James Hunter. Irini A Malliaros.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 1999, the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) has worked with the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Program (RIMAP) to search for the remains of Lord Sandwich, a British troop transport sunk in Newport Harbor during the American Revolution. Lord Sandwich is perhaps best known as the former HMB Endeavour, the vessel used by Lieutenant James Cook during his first voyage of...

POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, AND STARCH ANALYSES ON SEDIMENT SAMPLES FROM WATHAYN, NORTH QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA (2019)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jenna Battillo.

Earth Mounds 33 and 34 are located in the Wathayn locality on the Weipa Peninsula of northern Cape York in Queensland, Australia. Evidence suggests that occupation of the earth mounds at Wathayn began after 2000 BP, with the height of occupation occurring between 500 and 100 BP. Use of the earth mounds on the Weipa Peninsula continued well after European settlement, with evidence for Aboriginal adoption of new technologies suggestive of occupation into the modern era (Stevenson et al. 2015:28)....

Populations expansion as a replacement or merging of peoples: insights from the rock art of Doria Gudaluk (Beswick Creek Cave), Northern Territory Australia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Smith. Ines Domingo. Didac Roman. Gary Jackson.

The rock art of Doria Gudaluk (Beswick Creek Cave) in the Northern Territory of Australia provided a valuable lesson in the difficulties of interpretation without local knowledge. Now, newly recorded motifs at the site—some only visible through digital enhancement—highlight the dangers of relating stylistic changes to population replacement. When considered in the context of local history, developments in the rock art of Doria Gudaluk during the second half of the twentieth century can be...

Potential Diver Impacts on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Asia-Pacific (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne L Edney.

Underwater cultural heritage sites, particularly ship and aircraft wrecks, are becoming increasingly popular and important attractions for recreational scuba divers. However, use of these sites by divers can result in a range of adverse impacts such as boat anchor damage, disturbance to and removal of artefacts, deliberate and accidental contacts with wrecks and artefacts, as well as exhaled air bubbles. Whilst these impacts may not present a major threat in comparison to other human impacts,...

Pre-contact Settlement Patterns in a Clay Pan and Wetland Environment in Australia’s Sandy Deserts (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Jazwa. Chloe McGuire. David Zeanah. Douglas Bird.

Much of the archaeological research done in the interior deserts of Australia has focused on rockshelter sites, primarily because of intact stratigraphy and better preservation than in open air contexts. However, ethnographic studies of local Martu populations have demonstrated that people rarely lived in rockshelters or caves, particularly during the wet season when populations focused around reliable soaks and clay pans. Therefore, it is necessary to study the distribution of archaeological...

Preliminary Investigations at Raiatea, Society Islands, French Polynesia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hinanui Cauchois. John O'Connor.

The Society Islands are of primary importance for understanding human impacts on island ecologies and the dispersal of pre-contact voyaging populations in East Polynesia. Raiatea, the largest island of the Leeward Group, is recognized through Polynesian oral traditions as a locus of regional interaction and a departure point for migrations that colonized the distant islands of Hawaii and Aotearoa (New Zealand) in the second millennium AD. Here we present results from our first season of...

Preparing Now For Those Who Are Coming (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Por Gubau Gizu ya Sagulal ..

Por Gubau Gizu ya Sagulal (All Wind Directions dance team) are dancers from Kubin Village, Mua Island, Torres Strait. New dances and songs are being created every day. In this performance, we express our history through dances and songs that have been passed to us from our ancestors and which we pass on to our children.

Prestige and Predation: Dugong Hunters of the Torres Strait, Australia (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelly Tiley.

This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large animals are particularly prone to human overexploitation for both biological and cultural reasons. Relatively rare and slow to reproduce, these populations are naturally sensitive to predation. For the hunters, evolutionary and cultural forces conspire to make these animals highly desired. This paper...

A primitive method of making a wooden dish by native women of the Musgrave Ranges, South Australia (1942)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J R B Love.

Primitive pottery for the contemporary Neanderthal, a Pacific Nortwest perspective, part I - the nature of primitive pottery and the quest for clay (2003)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estabon. David Wescott.

Primitive pottery for the contemporary Neanderthal, a Pacific Nortwest perspective, part II - shaping the clay forming the pot (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estabon. David Wescott.

Primitive pottery for the contemporary Neanderthal, a Pacific Nortwest perspective, part III - into the fire (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estabon. David Wescott.

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