New South Wales (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Ethnoarchaeology, or where do models come from?: a closer look at Australian aboriginal lithic technology (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould.

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...

The Excavation of a Brick Barrel-drain at Parramatta, N.S.W. (1983)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward Higginbotham.

One of the most important contributions that can be made by historical archaeology is to throw light on aspects of the past neglected by most historians. Drains, for instance, have tended to be ignored by traditional scholarship. Yet the development of drainage systems of one sort or another was extremely important to the occupants of Australia's towns and cities during the 19th century. In the following paper Edward Higginbotham, a consultant archaeologist in Sydney, discusses his excavation of...

The Excavation of the Mount Wood Woolscour, Tibooburra, New South Wales (1984)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Pearson.

In this paper the author, who is Historian in the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, reconstructs the little-known process of station-based woolscouring from documentary and archaeological evidence. It is argued that the relatively Late survival of this form of scouring In western New South Wales resulted primarily from severely limited transport facilities. The considerable variation in scour design, evident in the literature and at Mount Wood, as attributed to individual...

Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Issues of Scale, Integration and Complexity (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Murray. Penny Crook.

Historical archaeologists have advocated the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of reference—the household and the district being the most common. In this paper, we discuss the value of comparisons at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, as a basis for understanding archaeology of the modern western city. We argue that patterns of similarity and dissimilarity detected at these larger scales can (and should) become part...

Fire-by-Friction Methods of the Australian Aborigines (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dick Baugh. David Wescott.

Formal variation in Australian spear and spearthrower technology (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B J Cundy.

J. Whittaker: [Actually covers only Central Australia and the northern half of the Northern Territory so some important types and variation not included. A very good study although marred by many typos and almost no illustrations of spearthrowers and spears. One of the best sources on spearthrower mechanics and physics, but the explanations are not always clear. I’ve translated into English as much as I can.] 1. Intro: Variation should be explained by technological and functional factors as...

Future Camps: one model for preserving culture (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denise Ellen Ashman. David Wescott.

The Global Effort to Train Diving Archaeologists: the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Van Duivenvoorde. Jonathan Benjamin.

Underwater archaeology, which has emerged as a distinct sub-discipline, has its own specific practical and theoretical debates, issues and history. Education in underwater archaeology, however, is challenging. In practice, the study and professional activity merges maritime sectors and industry with traditional academic archaeology. The UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology aims to increase capacity through international cooperation. The Network is designed to enhance the protection and...

Go West Young Man...Woman and Child?: Investigating Shasta County's population during the Californian Gold Rush (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi A Shaw.

The gold rush brought many things to California, including statehood, wealth, and prominence, but most noticeabley it brought people. Before the gold rush, California only boasted a population of 162,000 people, but by the end there were more than 380,000 people, the majority being immigrants from different states and countries. The majority of the literature concerning the demographic flux of the gold rush is focused on the area known as the Mother Lode, where gold was initially discovered....

The handaxe use in the western desert of Australia (1941)

DOCUMENT Citation Only N B Tindale.

Head Tells Tales – The Life and Times of Rodney, a Convict Transport Vessel Wrecked at Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Irini A Malliaros. James Hunter.

Archival research, in conjunction with data obtained from a collaborative expedition to Kenn Reefs, Australian Coral Sea Territory, undertaken by the Silentworld Foundation and Australian National Maritime Museum, has revealed the likely wreck site of mid-19th century convict transport vessel, Rodney. Over its lifetime Rodney transported hundreds of convicts and government passengers (free settlers) to Australia. It was one of many privately-owned ships that undertook this work. However, these...

High-Tech, Low-Tech: Lithic Technology in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia (2006)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Akerman.

J. Whittaker: Ground-edge tools like axes, grinding equipment, unhafted flake blade and core cutting tools, hafted knives and scrapers, pressure flaked spearheads in 3 different lithic zones. Heat treatment of rock common. Kimberley points as spear heads, knives, trade goods. Descriptions of flaking process. Man might have 5-20 at one time, but renew or replace maybe 4/week. Glass favored, takes 15 + minutes. Composite spears 250-350 cm, ave wt 170 grams, so could be thrown with long...

Historic theme parks. An Australian experience in authenticity (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gianna Moscardo. Philip L Pearce.

The Historical Archaeology of the First Government House site, Sydney: Further Research (2006)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

This publication presents the results of the EAMC analysis of assemblages at the First Government House site. It includes a discussion of the site’s formation processes and three studies of different aspects of the historical archaeology of First Government House: one, the printing office and additional lead type recovered in Young Street; two, the tablewares and dining equipage of Governors King and Macquarie; and three, the unusual architectural history of the guard house, built c. 1812 and...

History's Pure Serene: On Reenacting Cook's First Voyage, September 2001 (2010)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vanessa Agnew.

HM Bark Endeavour (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonia Macarthur.

Human-Environment Interaction in Colonial Queensland: Establishment, Use and Abandonment of the Port of St Lawrence and Implications for the Archaeological Record (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleisha R Buckler.

This paper explores the recursive relationships between people and the environment in a colonial port setting on the coast of Queensland, Australia. Established in c.1860, the St Lawrence port settlement and the lives of its inhabitants were mediated by the dynamic coastal environment which characterises the surrounding region. Transformations of the physical environment prompted by settlers to allow for port development changed the geomorphology of the creek environment and led to accelerated...

Hunters and Trackers of the Australian Desert (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pat Lowe.

J. Whittaker: Personal accounts of tracking-related natural history, nice photos. Lowe married Jimmy Pike and learned from him and relatives in Walmajarri people. Female perspective, lots mention women hunting, including with spears and other weapons. Central desert depopulated since 1960s, nobody living old life now, but many hunt and visit and know old ways. Hunter’s tools: digging stick, coolamon wood dish, kana probe or spear (kularta), spear thrower (ngalpiliny), hunting sticks. Male...

I belong to this country (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dick Baugh. David Wescott.

I, The Aboriginal (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas W Lockwood.

J. Whittaker: (first illustrated edition). Autobiography of Waipuldanya aka Phillip Roberts as told to Lockwood. First pub 1962. Born ca 1902 in N Australia, Roper River on Gulf of Carpentaria. As boy, “we fought with toy spears, the ends bound with rags so that anyone who was hit wouldn’t be badly hurt.” Hunting with woomera + 10 foot shovelnose spear frequently mentioned but not detailed. Mission school for a few years, then hunt with older man (his future wife’s bro) for training, so at ca...

Immigrant Diets and the Making of Australia (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberley Connor.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Immigration and Refugee Resettlement" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Australia, Casella and Fredericksen have argued, places of confinement have a disproportionate importance in the national mythology because they are material representations of classic Australian heroes: the convict, the outlaw, and the larrikin. Criminal or mischievous acts are recast as rejecting an unjust social system or an...

Indigeneity, Identity and Survivance through Ongoing Cultural Practices (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Munro-Harrison.

This is an abstract from the "From Tomb Raider to Indiana Jones: Pitfalls and Potential Promise of Archaeology in Pop Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through this project I aim to document the ways in which Indigenous artists exercise self-determination in expressing identity through creative means. A complex and significant issue is evident in the depiction of Indigenous Australians within the media which continue to stereotype or ignore...

Influences of Nineteenth-century Victorian Values on Health Concerns in Parramatta New South Wales (Australia) (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Jeanne Harris.

This paper presents preliminary findings of doctoral research exploring the influences of Victorian middle-class values on nineteenth-century health concerns. After years of professional research on 19th health-related artefacts within archaeological assemblages, the author noted a reoccurring pattern in the historical literature which promotes the idea of a lack of middle-class values within working-class populations. This research project contests this notion by exploring how these values...

Innovations in Geophysical Survey of a WWII B-24H in a duck pond in Morgo, Italy (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Moffat. Jennifer F McKinnon. Alberto Lezziero. Massimiliano Secci. Nathan Richards. Sara Mackenzie Parkin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On January 30, 1944 a B-24H was struck by anti-aircraft during an attack on Udine, Italy, lost altitude, and crashed on the Morgo Island. One member of the ten-man crew survived and two bodies were recovered; seven crew members remain on site today. Preliminary investigations of the...

The Invisible Institution: Archaeological Expressions of Coerced Labour Control through the Manipulation of Information. (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas G. Whitley.

Identifying the material expressions of torture, punishment, discipline, and imprisonment are key factors in addressing the ways in which society exerts its control over the individual; particularly the non-conformist, the criminal, and the slave. With respect to the spatial expression of coerced labour control, the emphasis has been upon the idea of the "panoptican" or the mechanism by which the labourer can never know if he is being watched. Another form of coerced labour management though, is...