Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) (FOR 210108) (Culture Keyword)
26-50 (60 Records)
Complete suite of datasets from the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets assemblage (completed in 1999), as upgraded for the Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City project (2001-2004).
Destitute women and smoking at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, Australia (2011)
The Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney, Australia, was established in 1819 to accommodate male convicts, but in later years the building served as a depot for immigrant women (1848-86) and as an asylum for destitute women (1862-86). The occupation of the latter group in particular resulted in the loss of large numbers of clay tobacco pipes under the floorboards. The quantity and distribution of the pipes is used here to examine smoking behavior among the destitute female inmates, and to assess their...
EAMC Archaeology Database (v1.0) (2006)
The EAMC Archaeology Database is a customised relational database, created in Microsoft Access, and designed to store, display, search and analyse archaeological data. It contains: a detailed catalogue of artefacts; a register of stratigraphic context data; a register of type series data the capacity to hold multiple images of key artefacts; in-built data definitions; and a range of tools to make the task of cataloguing assemblages more efficient. Released in 2006, it drew together, for the...
EAMC Images - Hyde Park Barracks (2004)
Select images from the Hyde Park Barracks assemblage.
Editorial (1983)
Editorial for the inaugural volume of the Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Editorial (1984)
Editorial for Volume 2 of the Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology.
The Excavation of a Brick Barrel-drain at Parramatta, N.S.W. (1983)
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...
Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City project
The ‘Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City’ project (EAMC) was established in 2001 by Professor Tim Murray of the Archaeology Program of La Trobe University and Industry Partners, to analyse and interpret the large assemblages excavated from historical archaeological sites which are held in storehouses across Sydney. Funding for the project was provided by the Australian Research Council through its Linkage Scheme. The project gave to the analysis of ten discreet household assemblages...
Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Issues of Scale, Integration and Complexity (2005)
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...
A first bibliography of historical archaeology in Australia (1983)
Bibliographies are a basic working tool for researching or teaching any subject, or merely for following up a casual interest. The person who undertakes to construct a bibliography, however, must have courage indeed. There will always be users of the end-product who will complain that it is incomplete or inaccurate or both. The proof of the bibliography, like the pudding, is in the eating! Jane Wesson, who has produced the following bibliography, is very conscious of these things. She invites...
Guide to the EAMC archaeology database (2006)
This is the Guide to the EAMC Archaeology Database released in 2006. It provides a brief outline of the content of the database and instructions for navigation and using the key functions of the database.
The Historical Archaeology of the First Government House site, Sydney: Further Research (2006)
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...
Hyde Park Barracks Artefact Catalogue (2011)
Catalogue of artefacts from the Hyde Park Barracks assemblage, as upgraded as part of the Institutional Confinement project. The catalogue was original combined by the Hyde Park Barracks Museum staff and enhanced during the Archaeology of the Modern City project.
Innovation in the Manufacture of Salt in Eastern Australia: The 'Thorn Graduation' Process (1984)
Salt production in nineteenth-century Australia was often based on the evaporation of sea-water by boiling. This required large quantities of fuel because of the low salt-content of sea-water, and there were obvious advantages in pre-concentrating the brine before boiling. Although solar evaporation was a well-established way of doing this, a handful of Australian manufacturers attempted to use the 'thorn graduation' process, in which water was evaporated from the brine by trickling it through...
Keeping up with the McNamaras: A Historical Archaeological Study of the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site, The Rocks, Sydney (2005)
The archaeological collection from the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site, excavated in 1994, was among the suite of material selected for analysis in this project. This report presents the results of the EAMC team’s re-examination of the historical and archaeological records of the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site and is also intended to provide a reference point for future research of the site.
Lilyvale datasets (2006)
Artefact and context data from the Lilyvale excavation in 1989. Records were compiled and assessed by the EAMC team, and some terminology was normalised, but the core artefact descriptions were not modified. The original catalogue was co-ordinated by Wendy Thorp and Leah McKenzie.
Paddy's Market (2006)
Artefact and context data from the Paddy's Market excavation in 1993. Records were compiled and assessed by not modified by the EAMC team. The original catalogue was prepared by Godden Mackay Logan and Wendy Thorp.
People in the landscape: A Biography of two villages (1984)
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...
People+Place database (2006)
The People+Place database is a customised relational database, created in Microsoft Access, and designed to store, display, search and analyse historical occupancy data about Individuals and Buildings or Places in which they lived or worked. While its primary aim is to link archaeological assemblages with the houses, shops and pubs from which they were excavated and the people who lived and worked there, it also serves the needs of historians or heritage managers undertaking site-specific or...
Quality Flaws - Ceramic (2008)
Images of quality flaws on ceramic sherds from the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site.
Review of J. Birmingham, I. Jack and D. Jeans Industrial archaeology in Australia (1984)
Review of Industrial archaeology in Australia: Rural industry by J. Birmingham, I. Jack and D. Jeans (Heinemann, Australia, 1983).
Stamp-collecting or increasing understanding? The Dilemma of Historical Archaeology (1983)
The following is the text of a paper that was presented at the Australian Society for Historical Archaeology First Conference on Historical Archaeology, held in Sydney on 29-30 October 1981. In this paper Graham Connah of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of New England, identifies what he regards as a dilemma presently facing Australian historical archaeology. On the one hand, there is an urgent need for historical archaeologists to record rapidly vanishing data; and on...
Suburban archaeology: approaching an archaeology of the middle class in 19th century Melbourne
This multi-disciplinary Australian Research Council-funded project is jointly held by La Trobe University, University of Melbourne and Deakin University. It engages archaeologists, historians and museologists in an investigation that places material culture at the centre of understandings of suburban middle-class life in Australian cities. The project responds to recent work on consumption, identity, and class formation about the need to investigate the material conditions of the urban middle...
'Superior Quality' Appendices - Price Data (2008)
Complete summary of price data compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each price by set and trade catalogue.
'Superior Quality' Appendix - BMP98 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Burslem Market Place site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.