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Contemporary Wanigela pottery (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian J Egloff.

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...

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 Murujuga Cultural Landscape (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo McDonald.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) is one of Australia’s most significant rock art provinces. Recently nominated to the World Heritage List as the Murujuga Cultural Landscape, this talk describes efforts which are being made to directly-date this deep time rock art sequence, by innovative direct...

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:...

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 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...

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.

Excavations at Arltunga (1983)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kate Holmes.

The White Range settlement on the Arltunga Goldfield must have been as remote a spot as any group of miners could have found in Australia in 1903, the high point of its history. Although supplies arrived only at two or three month intervals, and had to be carried from far-off Oodnadatta by camel and horse-teams, it was nevertheless at White Range that John Wilson set up his store and that Patrick O'Neil (and his wife) apparently set up his billiard table! In the following paper Kate Holmes, of...

Finding Grasses in the Rock Art of Balanggarra Country, Kimberley, Northwest Australia (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Grey.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany, Part II" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The floristic complexity of native Australian grasslands means they are a haven for biodiversity, and have provided a range of subsistence, material, and sociocultural resources for Indigenous peoples. Disentangling the ways in which people engaged with these environments is a complex task, and has, to date, relied on...

Fire-by-Friction Methods of the Australian Aborigines (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dick Baugh. David Wescott.

Formal variation in Australian spear and spearthrower technology (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B J Cundy.

J. Whittaker: [Actually covers only Central Australia and the northern half of the Northern Territory so some important types and variation not included. A very good study although marred by many typos and almost no illustrations of spearthrowers and spears. One of the best sources on spearthrower mechanics and physics, but the explanations are not always clear. I’ve translated into English as much as I can.] 1. Intro: Variation should be explained by technological and functional factors as...

Future Camps: one model for preserving culture (2002)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denise Ellen Ashman. David Wescott.

The Global Effort to Train Diving Archaeologists: the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Van Duivenvoorde. Jonathan Benjamin.

Underwater archaeology, which has emerged as a distinct sub-discipline, has its own specific practical and theoretical debates, issues and history. Education in underwater archaeology, however, is challenging. In practice, the study and professional activity merges maritime sectors and industry with traditional academic archaeology. The UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology aims to increase capacity through international cooperation. The Network is designed to enhance the protection and...

Go West Young Man...Woman and Child?: Investigating Shasta County's population during the Californian Gold Rush (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi A Shaw.

The gold rush brought many things to California, including statehood, wealth, and prominence, but most noticeabley it brought people. Before the gold rush, California only boasted a population of 162,000 people, but by the end there were more than 380,000 people, the majority being immigrants from different states and countries. The majority of the literature concerning the demographic flux of the gold rush is focused on the area known as the Mother Lode, where gold was initially discovered....