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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Portuguese endeavor in the Atlantic started in 1415. By the time the Portuguese reached Brazil (1500) they had already settled in four Atlantic Archipelagos, and several places in Africa and were starting to establish a permanent presence in the Indian Ocean region which lasted for several centuries. On...
Mundane material culture and political identity in Long Kesh / Maze prison (2013)
Studies of the material culture of political imprisonment during the Northern Irish Troubles have hitherto concentrated on prisoner self-expression – especially through the creation of contraband and handicrafts - or the presencing of prison protests in external communities through wall murals. Of less aesthetic value, but highly significant as a both a signifier of compliance / dissent and criminal / political status, are the relationships between prisoners and prison-issue artefacts. From...
Unearthing Complex Urban Landscapes in Colonial Australia: The Parramatta Light Rail Project (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020, a series of excavations by Sydney-based consultants GML Heritage followed the route of a new light railway system cutting its way through Parramatta: the second oldest city in British-occupied Australia. These works revealed a series of sites comprising military barracks, a commercial wharf,...