New South Wales (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Keeping up with the McNamaras: A Historical Archaeological Study of the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site, The Rocks, Sydney (2005)

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.

Kimberley Visions: Antiquity of Rock Art Style Provinces of Northern Australia (2019)

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...

Kultur der Traumzeit: Tradition und Gegenwart der Aborigines Australiens (1991)

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...

"A Large and General Assortment": Fancy Goods Stores and the Retailer-Consumer Relationship in Christchurch, New Zealand. (2020)

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...

Layer Upon Layer Upon Layer – Interpreting the Historic Shipwreck Sites of Kenn Reefs, Coral Sea, through GIS (2018)

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...

Learning to sail the Duyfken replica (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Burningham.

The life and death of a flourmill: McCrossin's Mill, Uralla (1983)

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...

The lithic assemblage of the Western Desert aborigines of Australia (1971)

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

Living archaeology. the Ngatatjara of Western Australia (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould.

Madness, Architecture and Constraint: The role of the built environment in the mental institutions of New South Wales (2013)

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...

Making Waves: sea, art and archaeology (2023)

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...

Mapping Unmarked Graves in Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Smith. Jordan Ralph. Jasmine Willika. Guy Rankin. Gary Jackson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation outlines the public good that is being produced by a project being undertaken at the request of the Elders from the remote Aboriginal community of Barunga, Northern Territory. It may be hard to believe, but in 2018 the vast majority of graves of Aboriginal people in remote...

The Maqamat Ship: Context and Comparison of the Iconic Arab Manuscript Painting (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mick de Ruyter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in the Indian Ocean" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The iconic ship illustration in the thirteenth-century Paris 'Schefer' Maqamat manuscript is one of the most significant individual images used in maritime archaeology. This painting was the primary iconographic source for interpretations of the Belitung wreck and for the design and construction of two full-sized replica ships, and...

Marking Presence, Passage and Place at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne F Clarke. Ursula K Frederick.

A slowly fading inscription, scored into a sandstone boulder at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney, records the names of three, or possibly four, people—John, Alice Oliver and George. Dated to July 1893 the inscription prompts immediate questions: who were John, Alice Oliver and George? Were they a family? Under what circumstances did they find themselves in quarantine? Where did they come from and how? Did they survive their time in quarantine, or is this a memorial to loved ones lost?...

Measuring the Quality of Personal Goods: Antipodean Adventures in the Archaeology of Consumption (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook.

The systematic indexation of quality in mass-produced goods offers a new approach for historical archaeology and studies of consumption. The relative excellence of glass and ceramics sherds has proven to be a useful complement to traditional analyses of function, fabric and decoration when studying consumer choice at the household level. But does this approach suit the archaeological study of personal goods? Are the challenges of artifact preservation and assemblage diversification too great?...

Mental templates: an ethnographic Experiment, paper presented at tne biennial Conference of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter J White. N Modjeska.

Mistress of her Domain: Matron Hicks and the Hyde Park Destitute Asylum, Sydney, Australia (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Davies.

Matrons were often powerful figures in the daily workings of benevolent asylums and other institutions of refuge. Responsible for hygiene, subsistence and the moral oversight of inmates, matrons occupied a strategic point in the relationship between institutions and wider society; they embodied notions of institutional care, refuge and reform. Matron Lucy Hicks was typical of this pattern. As matron of the Hyde Park Asylum for Infirm and Destitute Women in Sydney, Australia, from 1862 to 1886,...

Monuments to Symbolic Behaviour in the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Beckett.

This is an abstract from the "The Art of Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dampier Archipelago in Northwest Australia is famous for containing dense concentrations of spectacular rock art that reflect varied and changing landscape use over time. Standing stones are another important site type found throughout the archipelago and they range from single, isolated stones to large clusters of propped or chocked uprights. These features...

A new approach to the significance of the "weighted" spear thrower (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John L Palter.

Open sites and the ethnographic approach to the archaeology of hunter-gatherers (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Peterson.

Over The Edge: functional analysis of Australian stone tools (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johan Kamminga.

Palaeolithic Reflections: Lithic Technology and Ethnographic Excavation Among Australian Aborigines (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Hayden.

J. Whittaker: Very detailed description of stone tools and use experiments conducted with aboriginal men and women in Australia. Includes some information on manufacture of woomera type “meru” spear throwers (scoop shape with adze stone hafted in handle) and “crude” spears. [Focus is on hyper-detailed descriptions of use of simple stone tools and their manufacture and wear, useful for lithic studies, not very useful for atlatl interests. Most informants had not actually used stone tools since...

Paleocurrents in a Least-Cost Pathway Model of Human Dispersal from Sunda to Sahul, 65 – 45 Kya (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marisa Borreggine. Evelyn Powell. Richard Meadow. Jerry Mitrovica. Christian Tryon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The timing of human colonization of Sahul, potentially as early as 65 ka (up from the previous 42 ka) has revised our understanding of the dispersal of anatomically modern humans (AMH). This movement represents, to date, the earliest known AMH long distance migration by sea, implying significant levels of complex language, marine technology, and colonization...

People in the landscape: A Biography of two villages (1984)

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. H. Winston-Gregson.

Interpreting the Australian rural landscape is presently an uncommon skill. While developing an archaeological test for historical and geographical locational models, the author, a consultant archaeologist based in Canberra, discovered a string of deserted villages in the eastern Riverina. This paper summarises the historical material about two of the villages to indicate the scope of data that may be overlooked by other disciplines but rediscovered by archaeologically guided research. The...

The pestle and mortar: an ethnographic analogy for archaeology in Arnhem Land (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Peterson.