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The Convict Road Station Site at Wisemans Ferry: an Historical and Archaeological Investigation (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Grace Karskens.

In examining the contribution of the convicts to Australia's early material history, archaeologists and architectural historians usually focus on impressive, durable structures such as public buildings and bridges. The convict road station site at Wisemans Ferry presents an alternative record. It comprises the remains of the temporary, rough dwellings of the convict gangs which constructed the Great North Road between 1826 and 1836, and it is particularly valuable because of the absence of...


Cost, quality and value in historical archaeology
PROJECT Penny Crook.

This doctoral research program explored three key concepts in nineteenth-century consumerism - cost, quality and value - and the role they play in examining the archaeological material culture of the modern world. It encompassed two primary strands of inquiry: one, a consumption-theory driven study of trade catalogues to analyse the cost and promotion of 19th-century tablewares; and two, a close study of production flaws observed in archaeological sherds. These culminated in a consideration of...


Criminal Boys in a Remote Landscape: The Archaeology of Point Puer (1834-1849), an Experimental Reform Institution in Colonial Australia (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin J D'Gluyas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental and Social Issues within Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Criminal children formed a notable proportion of the convict population transported to colonial Australia. During a global shift in the ideology of the treatment of criminal youth, an experimental institution for the training and reform of colonial boy prisoners was established at Point Puer in...


CUGL00130, Tobacco Pipe Type 1 (2002)
IMAGE La Trobe University. Ming Wei.

Tobacco Pipe Type 1 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00130)


CUGL00131, Tobacco Pipe Type 2 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 2 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00131)


CUGL00182, Tobacco Pipe Type 3 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 3 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00182)


CUGL00197, Tobacco Pipe Type 4 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 4 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00197)


CUGL00242, Tobacco Pipe Type 5 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 5 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00242)


CUGL00282, Tobacco Pipe Type 6 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 6 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00282)


CUGL00755, Tobacco Pipe Type 10 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 10 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00755)


CUGL00822, Tobacco Pipe Type 11 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 11 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00822)


CUGL00828, Tobacco Pipe Type 12 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 12 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00828)


CUGL00832, Tobacco Pipe Type 15 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 15 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00832)


CUGL00840, Tobacco Pipe Type 16 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 16 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00840)


CUGL00849, Tobacco Pipe Type 20 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 20 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00849)


CUGL00883, Tobacco Pipe Type 21 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 21 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00883)


CUGL00898, Tobacco Pipe Type 235 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 235 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00898)


CUGL00938, Tobacco Pipe Type 242 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 242 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00938)


CUGL00941, Tobacco Pipe Type 463 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 463 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00941)


CUGL00943, Tobacco Pipe Type 459 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 459 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00943)


CUGL00967, Tobacco Pipe Type 448 (2002)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 448 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00967)


CUGL00971, Tobacco Pipe Type 427 (2004)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 427 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00971)


CUGL00973, Tobacco Pipe Type 210 (2004)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 210 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00973)


CUGL00983, Tobacco Pipe Type 474 (2004)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 474 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00983)


CUGL00986, Tobacco Pipe Type 357 (2004)
IMAGE Ming Wei. La Trobe University.

Tobacco Pipe Type 357 from the CUGL1994 ceramic assemblage. (Catalogue Number: CUGL00986)