AUSTRALIA (Geographic Keyword)

201-213 (213 Records)

Unearthed Burial from Rising Sea Levels: A Collaborative Community Approach for Tackling Climate Change in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Lowe. Enid Tom. Michael Westaway. Jaime Swift. Annie Lau.

This is an abstract from the "Crucial Issues in United States Department of Defense Cultural Resources Management " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Torres Strait Islands, Australia, covers 50,000 km2 and includes 300 islands, with only 17 home to community settlements. Although regional maritime culture includes seascapes rich in cosmological and spiritual meaning, many sites that constitute cultural identity are under threat due to rising sea...

Unearthing Complex Urban Landscapes in Colonial Australia: The Parramatta Light Rail Project (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook. Abi Cryerhall. Eleanor C. Casella.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020, a series of excavations by Sydney-based consultants GML Heritage followed the route of a new light railway system cutting its way through Parramatta: the second oldest city in British-occupied Australia. These works revealed a series of sites comprising military barracks, a commercial wharf,...

An unrecorded method of manufacturing wooden implements by simple stone tools (1941)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C P Mountford.

J. Whittaker: Pitjendadjara manufacture of woomera type atlatl using the adze stone which is often attached to the handle with gum. Stages: A. Cutting and splitting rough slab from living mulga (Acacia) tree, using local stones with natural sharp edges, and wooden wedges. The main stone was gneiss, weighed 7 lbs, abandoned after use. Took a couple hours, several men participated. B. Shaping and finishing. Removed bark and heartwood, using smaller unflaked stones (gneiss, 3 lbs), leaving it...

Vanikoro escape: The archaeological potential of the La Perouse expedition survivor craft (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mick de Ruyter. Emma Webb. Wendy van Duivenvoorde.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When the two ships of the French exploratory expedition under La Perouse were wrecked in Vanuatu in 1788, the survivors built another vessel from salvaged components and attempted to sail back to France. They never made it, and the expedition was lost without trace until the shipwrecks were discovered in Vanuatu in 1827. The fate...

Variation of Minor Non-Metrical Cranial Variances in Australian Aborigines (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. L. Kellock. P. A. Parsons.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.

Voyages to Kaju Jawi: First Dated Evidence for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Asian Voyages to Northern Kimberley, Australia (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alistair Paterson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent centuries, Southeast Asian commercial trepang (sea cucumber) traders established seasonal outposts on the shores of the coasts and offshore islands of northern Australia. This southernmost extremity of a network of maritime trade and travel connected Australia and Aboriginal Australia to people from Southeast Asia and indirectly to emerging...

Waffen der SüdseeVölker (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ernst Germer.

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...

We, the navigators: the ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D Lewis.

Weapons and Wunan: production, function and exchange of Kimberley Points (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. L. van Gijn. R Fullagar. Kim Akerman. Wil Roebroeks.

Why so Low so Long? Constraints on Human Population Growth in Late Pleistocene Sahul (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James O'Connell. Jim Allen.

This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human populations in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea) probably numbered in the tens of thousands, two orders of magnitude below the 3-4 million estimated at time of European contact. They were also more patchily distributed than simple hypotheses grounded in an ideal free distribution...

Wicked Problems in Archaeology: Applying a Social Impact Framework and Entrepreneurship Mindset to Cultural Heritage Management (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Costello.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists operate within a conflicted position in the commercial business of cultural heritage management. As collaborators with industry and as players within a state bureaucracy, they are beholden to regulations and complicit in the destruction of sites. While archaeologists aim to produce practical benefits for society in general, or at the very least,...

The woodworking tools of the Australian Aborigines (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S R Mitchell.

World of the First Australians (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald M. Berndt. Catherine H. Berndt.