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DOCUMENT Citation Only Birgitta Stephenson.

Environmental factors associated with open context sites are frequently considered to negatively impact on the survival of archaeological residues on lithic artefacts. This report challenges these views and documents how the simple combination of three lines of evidence enabled the identification and characterisation of significant and varied subsistence practises from two sites on opposite sides of Australia. The identification of use-related residues was facilitated by using a specifically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meg Berry.

Murujuga, located off the northwest coast of Australia, possesses one of the largest and most vibrant open air rock art galleries on the planet. On Murujuga, low erosion rates, durable geology, and growing evidence from the wider region has allowed for archaeological contextualization of rock art into deep time; giving researchers the opportunity to investigate both the changing social dynamics of groups and the stimuli for this change over thousands of years. The main objective of this paper is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook. Laila Ellmoos. Tim Murray.

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.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Veth.

This is an abstract from the "The Art of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early figurative rock art from northern Australia contains large animal outline figures as well as monochrome anthropomorphic depictions. The latter often have extraordinary detail in accoutrements, headdresses, weaponry and associated material culture. They likely depict ceremonial and collective strategies shared over large areas and expected at the tail end of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Heyerdahl.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margarete Brüll. Corinna Erckenbrecht. Brigitte Ranft. Eva Gerhards.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Schmidt.

Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, is located in the western Pacific, ~2,100 miles southwest of Hawai'i and is home to U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll. During WWII, it was the site of Operation Flintlock and major bombing operations in the Pacific Theater. The Kwajalein MIA Project (KMP) is a public archaeology project dedicated to identifying aircraft and wreckage in the atoll lagoon that are linked to missing U.S. servicemen from WWII. The project is comprised of an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessie Garland.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“And in his needy shop a tortoise hung”: Construction Of Retail Environments And The Agency Of Retailers In Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The opportunity to investigate the material culture of a place from behind the commercial veil is rare. Processes of distribution and retail are often under-represented in the archaeological record and overshadowed by the refuse of domestic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Hundley. Irini A Malliaros.

In 2017, maritime archaeologists from the Silentworld Foundation and Australian National Maritime Museum conducted a survey of historic shipwreck sites at Kenn Reefs, Australian Coral Sea Territory. The acquired data was utilised to build a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) project. Maritime archaeology was born of, and is continually improved by, technological advances. GIS has become yet another indispensible tool to the modern maritime archaeologist - integrating data ranging...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Burningham.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Ralph. Burchell Hayes. Terry Hayes. Grant Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "Juukan Gorge: The Story of Destruction, Excavation and Rebuilding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the 24th of May 2020, mining company Rio Tinto destroyed significant rockshelters at Juukan Gorge, in the western Hamersley Range of Western Australia’s Pilbara Region, as part of its iron ore operations. This event had devastating consequences for the Puutu Kunti Kurrama People, who have now lost one of their most...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Luke Godwin.

To varying extents old buildings are historical documents. In the following paper Luke Godwin of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology, University of New England, discusses his recent investigations of McCrossin's Mill, a late 19th century flourmill at Uralla in northern New South Wales. He sees the construction of the mill and the material remains of its working life, closure and subsequent use, as a reflection of the economic history of New England, in particular of the history of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Haberle. Richard Cosgrove. Asa Ferrier. Patrick Moss. Peter Kershaw.

The use of fire in Australian Aboriginal society has been well documented and has been pivotal to arguments about human impact on the Australian biota. Continuous and well-dated palaeoecological sequences from the humid rainforests of NE Queensland are beginning to reveal detailed records of vegetation transformation and shifting fire regimes within rainforest environments. The archaeological record is also providing new insights into plant exploitation and adaptation strategies to enable people...

DATASET Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

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.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould. D A Koster. H L Sontz.

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PROJECT Justin McCarthy.

Excavations undertaken over a five month period in 1987-1988 on the Commonwealth Block, formerly the inner-city working-class district of Little Lon in Melbourne’s CBD. The excavation revealed building foundations, hearths, cellars, cesspits and laneways. Due to multiple phases of occupation and concurrent demolition across the site was highly disturbed, but rich deposits were recovered from 14 cesspits and 11 rubbish dumps. At that time, the excavation at ‘Little Lon’ was the largest urban...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Peta Longhurst.

The mental asylums of the nineteenth century, influenced by the concepts of moral therapy and non-restraint, were intended to be curative environments capable of reforming the mad. The architecture and built environment of these institutions was in essence the treatment, making the asylums both highly ideological and also inextricably physical. Through a comparative analysis of four such institutions in New South Wales, this paper will examine the tensions between the social and material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ursula K Frederick. Anne Clarke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The sea country of Groote Eylandt was formed by ancestral beings who made a vast interconnecting network of islands and waterways; the saltwater that defines the contours of the land has also profoundly shaped Groote Eylandt culture, history and archaeology. Rock paintings of boats and fishing scenes occur from beach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beate Engelbrecht. Bernhard Gardi.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sunny Ngirmang. Camilla Borrevik. Calvin Emesiochel. Errolflynn Kloulechad. Derek Benjamin.

A goal for cultural heritage management is to advance the comprehensive preservation, conservation and management of cultural resources, defined as the broad array of stories, knowledge, people, places, structures, objects, and the associated environment that contribute to the maintenance of cultural identity and/or reveal the prehistoric, historic and contemporary human interactions with an ecosystem. Involving the state and local community in regular management, activities, and projects should...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorena Craig.

This study seeks to understand the means of dissemination of oral cultural traditions of Oceania across time and geographic space. I hypothesize evolutionary trees produced from analysis of creation myths provide a means to infer prehistoric migrations routes. Additionally, creation myths and language have parallel evolutionary history and form a combined set of core cultural traditions. In order to test these hypotheses, creation myths, selected from the earliest recorded versions from Oceania,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Damion Sailors.

Customary Fijian fishing weirs, known locally as 'moka', are an archaeological feature type that can be readily identified due to their large size, uniform shape, and conspicuous location on the tidal flats and shorelines of both high and low islands. Recent advances in remote sensing technology have allowed for an improved survey of Fijian fishing weirs adding to the existing inventory and informing upon early settlement patterns in the Fiji Island group. While 'moka' do not play a major part...