Australasia (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will review a sample of theoretical approaches to the concept of value derived from the social sciences through the lens of modern world archaeology. This is an era for which the relative abundance of goods tends to prejudice our conception of the complex nature of value construction. I argue that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Bennett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores changes in design and construction technologies relating to British colonial-built ships in the nineteenth century. HMS Buffalo and Edwin Fox were built on the banks of the River Hooghly, India, with teams of local and foreign labour. HMS Buffalo was constructed in 1813 and served the British Navy before...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J (1,2) Viduka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What’s in a Name? Discussions of Terminology, Theory and Infrastructure of Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To know what is happening to underwater cultural heritage (UCH) sites from natural and cultural activity, sites must be monitored regularly and systematically. Currently, UCH management agencies are largely reliant on a few existing professionals to collect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy van Duivenvoorde. Peter Harvey. Pete Taylor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological fieldwork in Port Phillip, Victoria, identified a small shipwreck site near the Rye Jetty as that of the schooner Barbara. Preliminary investigations demonstrate that the vessel, built in northern Tasmania in 1841, had a deep-drafted hull with a double layer of hull planking, was sheathed with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Helen Farr. Anthony Fogg. Justin Dix.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Within maritime archaeology the notion of the sea as a barrier has been replaced with discussion of connecting seas and nowhere is this more important than in discussions of movement of people through Wallacea into Sahul in deep time. Understanding of movement and activity within this region necessitates...