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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?...

Meaningful Choices and Relational Networks: Analyzing Western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand Rock Art Style Using Chaîne Opératoire (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liam Brady. Luke Taylor. Sally May. Paul Tacon.

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. A core feature of rock art studies concerns the characterization and analysis of motif styles to generate new insights into their function, meaning, and symbolism in the deep and recent past. Yet what is oftentimes overlooked is attention to the production sequence used to create motifs, and what this can reveal...

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.

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...

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...

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Peterson.

Piecing together a puzzle - HMB Endeavour and Photogrammetric 3D Reconstruction (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kieran Hosty. James Hunter. Irini A Malliaros.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 1999, the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) has worked with the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Program (RIMAP) to search for the remains of Lord Sandwich, a British troop transport sunk in Newport Harbor during the American Revolution. Lord Sandwich is perhaps best known as the former HMB Endeavour, the vessel used by Lieutenant James Cook during his first voyage of...

Potential Diver Impacts on Underwater Cultural Heritage: Case Studies from Asia-Pacific (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne L Edney.

Underwater cultural heritage sites, particularly ship and aircraft wrecks, are becoming increasingly popular and important attractions for recreational scuba divers. However, use of these sites by divers can result in a range of adverse impacts such as boat anchor damage, disturbance to and removal of artefacts, deliberate and accidental contacts with wrecks and artefacts, as well as exhaled air bubbles. Whilst these impacts may not present a major threat in comparison to other human impacts,...

Pre-contact Settlement Patterns in a Clay Pan and Wetland Environment in Australia’s Sandy Deserts (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Jazwa. Chloe McGuire. David Zeanah. Douglas Bird.

Much of the archaeological research done in the interior deserts of Australia has focused on rockshelter sites, primarily because of intact stratigraphy and better preservation than in open air contexts. However, ethnographic studies of local Martu populations have demonstrated that people rarely lived in rockshelters or caves, particularly during the wet season when populations focused around reliable soaks and clay pans. Therefore, it is necessary to study the distribution of archaeological...

Preparing Now For Those Who Are Coming (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Por Gubau Gizu ya Sagulal ..

Por Gubau Gizu ya Sagulal (All Wind Directions dance team) are dancers from Kubin Village, Mua Island, Torres Strait. New dances and songs are being created every day. In this performance, we express our history through dances and songs that have been passed to us from our ancestors and which we pass on to our children.

Prestige and Predation: Dugong Hunters of the Torres Strait, Australia (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelly Tiley.

This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large animals are particularly prone to human overexploitation for both biological and cultural reasons. Relatively rare and slow to reproduce, these populations are naturally sensitive to predation. For the hunters, evolutionary and cultural forces conspire to make these animals highly desired. This paper...

A primitive method of making a wooden dish by native women of the Musgrave Ranges, South Australia (1942)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J R B Love.

The Process of Interpretation: The Antiquity of the Namurlanjanyngku and Post-Contact History in Yanyuwa Country, Northern Australia (2019)

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

This is an abstract from the "Technique and Interpretation in the Archaeology of Rock Art" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The search for meaning in rock art has been the focus of scholarly attention and debate for decades. A common feature that unites many of these studies is what the enquiry produces – for example, what a motif represents. However, studies focussing on the processes by which meaning is generated are, comparatively speaking, fewer...

The Recalibration of a Paradigm for the First Peopling of Greater Australia (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Birdsell. J Allen.

Recent Archaeological Work at Batavia's 1629 Graveyard, Western Australia (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alistair G Paterson. Wendy Van Duivenvoorde. Souter Corioli. Green Jeremy.

The archaeological sites related to the wreck of the 1629 VOC Batavia and subsequent mutiny have been studied since the 1960s. As part of the 'Shipwrecks of the Roaring 40s' Australian Research Council project, new discoveries have been made at several Batavia sites, particularly of victims on Beacon Island and the first European execution site on Long Island. These and other innovations help illuminate one of Australia's grimmest moments in history.

Recent Developments from the Submerged Cultural Landscape of Murujuga Sea Country, Northwest Shelf (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Benjamin. Michael O'Leary.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2020 the Deep History of Sea Country project team published the discovery of two underwater archaeological sites in Murujuga Sea Country (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia. Further lab analysis and field-based observations have been since undertaken, and these contribute to our understanding of the submerged sites within the broader setting within...

Recent developments in Australian use-wear and residue studies (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R Fullagar.

Reconstructing the Retail Mind: the Analysis of Store and Mail Order Catalogues (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook.

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. This paper reflects on 15 years of close analysis of over 55,000 prices in store and mail order catalogues and price lists of major Australian, English, American and Canadian retailers dating from the 1860s to 1907. These rare and dense resources...