AUSTRALIA (Geographic Keyword)

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The Battle for HMAS Perth: Saving a Wrecked Second World War Cruiser from Illegal Salvage (2020)

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

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. HMAS Perth (I) was one of three modified Leander Class light cruisers commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy shortly before the beginning of the Second World War. In February 1942 Perth, along with the heavy cruiser USS Houston, encountered a Japanese invasion fleet off the Indonesian island of Java. Both ships were sunk with heavy casualties. Perth was discovered by an...

Über steinzeitliche Beile der Südsee. Phil.Hist.Diss. (1949)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Hinderling.

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...

Black Marks on Boot – Locating Shipwreck Sites With Satellite Imagery (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Irini A Malliaros.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Satellite imagery has changed the approach to the search for shipwrecks in maritime archaeology. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) work undertaken by archaeologists, following the Silentworld Foundation and Australian National Maritime Museum collaborative expedition in 2017 to Kenn Reefs in the Coral Sea, revealed that shipwreck sites and their effect on coral reefs could be...

Bootbau in der Südsee (1937)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Nevermann.

Boote der Primitiven (1927)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Nevermann.

Bootsformen in Ostindonesien und Westneuguinea (1936)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Nevermann.

The Bow That Wasn't: On the Absence of the Bow in Aboriginal Australia (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christophe Darmangeat. Jean-Marc Petillon.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The nearly worldwide diffusion of the bow is often interpreted in terms of its superiority over other weapon systems. There is, however, at least one exception to this diffusion: Australia, where this weapon was never...

Building a Novel Archaeobotanical Framework to Investigate the History of Plant Foods in Aboriginal Australia (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Makayla Harding. Andrew Fairbairn. Nathan Wright. Trudy Gorringe. Josh Gorringe.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With a wide variety of biomes and extreme fluctuations in water availability, Australia’s Channel Country saw Indigenous Australians develop a unique suite of subsistence strategies to live in this environment. Ethnohistoric accounts report combinations of semipermanent habitation and seasonal mobility, intensive seed...

Buy One, Get One: The Legal and Sociocultural Context of “Gifting” within the Australian Human Remains Trade (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Damien Huffer. Shawn Graham.

This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Today’s online human remains trade—how it operates, where remains come from, and how algorithmic amplification allows for complex networks to form between buyers, sellers, and middlemen—has seen an increasing amount of research...

Can Artificial Reef Wrecks Reduce Diver Impacts on Historic Shipwrecks? A Case Study from Australia (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne L Edney. Dirk HR Spennemann.

Wreck diving is an increasingly popular activity, and has seen increasing numbers of divers visiting historic shipwreck sites. In some cases this has led to adverse impacts on these sites. A range of management strategies are used to manage diver impacts, ranging from exclusion to limiting the number of divers. Another strategy that deserves closer evaluation the use of artificial reef wrecks. Artificial reefs wrecks are popular attractions, and the number of vessels being sunk as dive sites has...

Canoes of Oceania. 3 volumes (1936)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alfred Court Haddon. James Hornell.

Canoes of Oceania. 3 volumes in one (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alfred Court Haddon. James Hornell.

Change or stability?: hydraulics, hunter-gatherer and population in temperate Australia (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H Lourandos.

Chipping stones in the Outback (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould.

The chronology of Australian watercraft (1935)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D S Davidson.

The chronology of Australian watercraft (1935)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D S Davidson.

The chronology of Australian watercraft (1935)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D S Davidson.

The chronology of Australian watercraft (1935)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D S Davidson.

Coastal Southeast Queensland, Australia: An Historical Ecology Model of Mid- to Late Holocene Settlement and Subsistence (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tam Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Palaeoeconomic and Environmental Reconstructions in Island and Coastal Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coastal Southeast Queensland covers an area stretching from Fraser Island in the north to the border of northern New South Wales in the south, and possesses the best documented and most intensively scrutinized coastal archaeological record in Australia. The area was a major focus in the late 1970s when...

Comparative archaeological and historical evidence from reconstruction of the original Batavia and a modern replica (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only N Green. Robert Parthesius.

Comparative Dating Study of Bones from Little Hole Cave, South Wales, United Kingdom (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela M. Rae. Miro Ivanovich. H. Stephen Green. M. Jon Head. Ronald W. L. Kimber.

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Comparison of the Incidence of Minor Non-Metrical Cranial Variants in Austrailan Aborigines With Those of Melanesia and Polynesia (1970)