Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site (The Rocks) (Site Name Keyword)

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Quality Flaws - Ceramic (2008)
IMAGE Citation Only Penny Crook.

Images of quality flaws on ceramic sherds from the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site.


'Superior Quality' Appendix - CUGL1994 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Cumberland/Gloucester Street site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.


‘Superior Quality’ Appendices - Artefact Catalogue (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Complete catalogue of artefact and quality data compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology". It groups each component of the full dataset but flaw, sherd, catalogue number (artefact bag), and site.


‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

This dissertation represents an exploration of three key concepts in nineteenth-century consumerism: cost, quality and value. Broadly conceived as an archaeology of consumption, it evaluates the role these concepts play in approaching the archaeological material culture of the modern world. It interweaves two primary strands of inquiry: one, a consumption-theory driven study of trade catalogues to analyse the cost and promotion of 19th-century tablewares; and two, a close study of production...


Understanding the archaeology of the modern city (2003)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Murray. Penny Crook. Laila Ellmoos.

This chapter reports some of the thinking behind the work that has been done in Melbourne with the ‘Little Lon’ Project begun by Alan Mayne and Tim Murray in 1996, the Sydney-focused Archaeology of the Modern City project begun in 2001, the Casselden Place project undertaken by a consortium of Godden Mackay Logan Pty Ltd (GML), Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd and La Trobe University during 2002, and forthcoming work in London, we will seek to more clearly establish the value of this broader...