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

301-325 (501 Records)

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.

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...

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Burningham. Adriaan M de Jong.

EAMC Archaeology Database (v1.0) (2006)

DATASET Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

The EAMC Archaeology Database is a customised relational database, created in Microsoft Access, and designed to store, display, search and analyse archaeological data. It contains: a detailed catalogue of artefacts; a register of stratigraphic context data; a register of type series data the capacity to hold multiple images of key artefacts; in-built data definitions; and a range of tools to make the task of cataloguing assemblages more efficient. Released in 2006, it drew together, for the...

EAMC Images - Hyde Park Barracks (2004)

IMAGE Penny Crook.

Select images from the Hyde Park Barracks assemblage.

Early Plant Food Use and Processing: Insights from Madjedbebe Rockshelter, Northern Australia (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Anna Florin. Andrew Fairbairn. May Nango. Djaykuk Djandjomerr. Chris Clarkson.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A broad spectrum diet, including the exploitation of a variety of wild plant foods, has historically been considered a pre-cursor to the origins of agriculture. However, increasing evidence globally points to the use of a range of plant foods, including seeds and underground storage organs, by...

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...

Ethnoarchaeology, or where do models come from?: a closer look at Australian aboriginal lithic technology (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Gould.

The Excavation of a Brick Barrel-drain at Parramatta, N.S.W. (1983)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward Higginbotham.

One of the most important contributions that can be made by historical archaeology is to throw light on aspects of the past neglected by most historians. Drains, for instance, have tended to be ignored by traditional scholarship. Yet the development of drainage systems of one sort or another was extremely important to the occupants of Australia's towns and cities during the 19th century. In the following paper Edward Higginbotham, a consultant archaeologist in Sydney, discusses his excavation of...

The Excavation of the Mount Wood Woolscour, Tibooburra, New South Wales (1984)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Pearson.

In this paper the author, who is Historian in the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, reconstructs the little-known process of station-based woolscouring from documentary and archaeological evidence. It is argued that the relatively Late survival of this form of scouring In western New South Wales resulted primarily from severely limited transport facilities. The considerable variation in scour design, evident in the literature and at Mount Wood, as attributed to individual...

Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City project

PROJECT Historic Houses Trust. Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. NSW Heritage Office . Heritage Victoria. City of Sydney. Godden Mackay Logan.

The ‘Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City’ project (EAMC) was established in 2001 by Professor Tim Murray of the Archaeology Program of La Trobe University and Industry Partners, to analyse and interpret the large assemblages excavated from historical archaeological sites which are held in storehouses across Sydney. Funding for the project was provided by the Australian Research Council through its Linkage Scheme. The project gave to the analysis of ten discreet household assemblages...

Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Issues of Scale, Integration and Complexity (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Murray. Penny Crook.

Historical archaeologists have advocated the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of reference—the household and the district being the most common. In this paper, we discuss the value of comparisons at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, as a basis for understanding archaeology of the modern western city. We argue that patterns of similarity and dissimilarity detected at these larger scales can (and should) become part...

FGH00857, Clay Tobacco Pipe Type 77 (2002)