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From the Wild West to the Wild North: Excavating the Memory of the Northern Australian Buffalo Shooting Industry (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte MS Feakins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In northern Australia, the buffalo hide industry was prevalent from the late 19th to mid-20th century. It involved Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and men working collectively for white male shooters to exploit feral water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) for their thick hides. Indigenous peoples dominated the workforce and often excelled in...


Unsettling the Classroom: Teaching Archaeology’s Ties with Settler-Colonialism (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Patton. Krista Maxwell.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For well over a decade, archaeologists such as Pyburn (2005) and Arnold (2005) have highlighted the need for teaching to engage with the larger, core issues that shape our research. Nevertheless, high-profile archaeological conversations about decolonization have tended to focus exclusively on research theory and practice. Yet Atalay...