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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...

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...

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only H Lourandos.

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...

Chipping stones in the Outback (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould.

Clothing and textiles at the Hyde Park Barracks Destitute Asylum, Sydney, Australia (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Davies.

Analysis of a large collection of textile fragments from the Hyde Park Barracks Asylum for Infirm and Destitute Women in Sydney (1862–86) has provided new information about women’s institutional clothing in 19th-century Australia. The remains of numerous clothing items recovered from sub-floor cavities, along with leather offcuts, buttons and other items, offer important clues about how the inmates dressed and how uniforms functioned in a context of institutional refuge.

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.

Contemporary Wanigela pottery (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian J Egloff.

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...

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...

Culinary Archaeology at Hyde Park Barracks: Multi-material Analysis of Food and Dining in a Nineteenth-Century Immigration Depot (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberley Connor.

This is an abstract from the "Culinary Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In history, Barbara Haber has made the distinction between academic food history and culinary history grounded in knowledge of recipes and cooking techniques. This paper uses the case study of the Female Immigration Depot (1848–1887) in Sydney, Australia, to consider what a culinary archaeology would look like. The site, at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks, features...

Danalaig a yabu kaipai pa kulai a inab thonar no koi ngapa wagel (Our way of life from a long time ago to the next generation coming): Archaeological and Mualaig biographies of missions. (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Por Gubau Gizu ya Sagulal .. Louise Manas.

In attending to the life or lives of things, biographical approaches in archaeology focus attention to the vitality of objects in change and to narrative. Torres Strait Islander biographies similarly explore themes around the transformation of things though tend rather more to emphasise place in structuring historical narratives. In Torres Strait, history is emplaced, encountered and generative. This paper traces the pathways of Mualgal (the people of Mua Island, western Torres Strait, NE...

Dating the Spirit Men: Radiocarbon Dating Saltwater Rock Art of the Yanyuwa People in Northern Australia (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Steelman. Liam Brady. John Bradley. Amanda Kearney.

Working with Yanyuwa elders, we collected seven rock painting samples for radiocarbon dating from Kamadarringabaya rock shelter on Vanderlin Island in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria (Northern Territory). Hand motifs – prints and stencils – dominate the site, covering the shelter walls and roof, and are said by Yanyuwa to be the hands of the Namurlajanyugku spirit beings. In control experiments, negligible levels of humic acid contamination were shown to be present in the unpainted rock;...

Death at the Edge of Empire and Beyond: The Divergent Histories of Coffin Furniture and Coffin Hardware (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hilda E. Maclean. Megan E. Springate.

The coffin was the centerpiece of the Victorian-era funeral and the most expensive material purchase made by the family or friends of the deceased. As with all events played out in public, the coffin was subject to the dictates of fashion. Beginning with the origins of mass-produced coffin furniture in eighteenth century England, this paper explores two divergent histories of coffin decoration through the Victorian era. An analysis of materials recovered from Brisbane, Australia looks at...

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Souveniring, Salvage and the Long, Sad Demise of HMAS Perth (I) (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kieran Hosty. James Hunter. Shinatria Adhityatama.

In May 2017, maritime archaeologists affiliated with the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) and Indonesia’s Pusat Arkeologi Nasional (ARKENAS) conducted a survey and site assessment of HMAS Perth (I), a modified Leander class light cruiser sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Battle of Sunda Strait in March 1942. When discovered in 1967, Perth’s wreck site was almost completely intact, save for battle damage and subsequent deterioration caused by natural transformative...

Demography, Heritage, and Archaeology: A View from Australia (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevan Edinborough.

This is an abstract from the "Peopling the Past: Critically Evaluating Settlement and Regional Population Estimates with New Methods and Demographic Modeling" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a cautionary case study in heritage and archaeology from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, which is undergoing a rapid transformation due to an unprecedented program of urban and regional development. Following the author’s previous work in...

Der Handel der zentralaustralischen Eingeborenen (1958)

DOCUMENT Citation Only F J Micha.

Design and construction of Australian spearthrower projectiles and handthrown spears (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John L Palter.

J. Whittaker: Ethnographic specimens: 33 hand-thrown and 293 spear thrower spears [unfortunately not illustrated]. Hypothesized diffusion after 10,000 bp, but thrower not used all over Australia. Two length groups of spear thrower spears: 1) average 160 cm, 2) average 260cm. Hand-thrown spears average 267 cm. Mass: Hand-thrown average 740 gm, thrower average 246 gm. Decreased mass allows maximum velocity - led to composite reed spears, with hardwood points. Balance: spear thrower spears:...

Destitute women and smoking at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, Australia (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Davies.

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...

The Duyfken project as experimental archaeology: a progress report (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Burningham.

The Duyfken project: an age of discovery ship reconstruction as experimental archaeology (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Burningham. Adriaan M de Jong.

Early pottery manufacturing in Sydney, Australia, 1801-1830 (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Casey.

Pottery manufacturing in Sydney produced a mixture of decorated and utilitarian products. This paper focuses on pottery manufactured by Thomas Ball (c1801-1823) and a few fine examples by John Moreton and an unidentified potter. Thomas Ball was an early potter in Sydney, an emancipated convict who trained in Staffordshire and was tried for his unknown crimes in Warwickshire. He arrived in Sydney in 1799 and was soon operating a pottery (c1801-1823) in the Brickfields. Analysis of over 625 kg...

Early Zooarchaeological Evidence for Mus musculus in Australia (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Davies. Jillian Garvey.

A recent discovery at the 19th-century Hyde Park Barracks Destitute Asylum in Sydney provides the earliest securely recorded zooarchaeological evidence for the house mouse (Mus musculus) in Australia. While M. musculus probably arrived with the first European settlers in the late 18th century, securely dated examples from the colonial period are rare. Our find consisted of a wooden matchbox containing the well preserved skeletal remains of three mice, in a context dating to the period 1848–1886....

The Emergence of Dreaming Landscapes: Indigenous Disturbance and Representation of Ecological Homelands in Australia’s Western Desert (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Bird. Rebecca Bliege Bird.

Martu are Traditional Owners of expansive estates in Australia’s Western Desert. They maintain distinct networks of social interaction, mobility, and economic organization through which emerge novel ecosystemic relationships. Such networks in the Western Desert involve trophic interactions between people and many other species, and are sustained in patterns of consumption and renewal, especially anthropogenic disturbance via landscape burning for the purposes of hunting and sharing small game....

Ethical practice, digital technologies and historical archaeology in NSW, Australia. (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah M. Colley.

The NSW Archaeology Online (NSW AOL) Project (2009-13) is Co-Directed by Sarah Colley and Martin Gibbs and is the first sustainable digital archive of archaeological information developed in Australia. The project involves collaboration with the University of Sydney Library, the Archaeology of Sydney Research Group and local professional historical archaeologists with funding from a NSW state heritage grant. NSW AOL is configured to support full-text search and display and will soon provides...