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PROJECT Historic Houses Trust. Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. NSW Heritage Office . Heritage Victoria. City of Sydney. Godden Mackay Logan.

The ‘Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City’ project (EAMC) was established in 2001 by Professor Tim Murray of the Archaeology Program of La Trobe University and Industry Partners, to analyse and interpret the large assemblages excavated from historical archaeological sites which are held in storehouses across Sydney. Funding for the project was provided by the Australian Research Council through its Linkage Scheme. The project gave to the analysis of ten discreet household assemblages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Murray. Penny Crook.

Historical archaeologists have advocated the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of reference—the household and the district being the most common. In this paper, we discuss the value of comparisons at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, as a basis for understanding archaeology of the modern western city. We argue that patterns of similarity and dissimilarity detected at these larger scales can (and should) become part...

DATASET Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

Complete suite of artefact datasets from the First Government House site, as upgraded for the Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City project. It combines two datasets created for the main series of excavations from 1983 and 1987, and excavations in Young Street and Raphael Place in 1991. The data was originally created by teams working for Anne Bickford and Wendy Thorp.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

This publication presents the results of the EAMC analysis of assemblages at the First Government House site. It includes a discussion of the site’s formation processes and three studies of different aspects of the historical archaeology of First Government House: one, the printing office and additional lead type recovered in Young Street; two, the tablewares and dining equipage of Governors King and Macquarie; and three, the unusual architectural history of the guard house, built c. 1812 and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook. Laila Ellmoos. Tim Murray.

The archaeological collection from the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site, excavated in 1994, was among the suite of material selected for analysis in this project. This report presents the results of the EAMC team’s re-examination of the historical and archaeological records of the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site and is also intended to provide a reference point for future research of the site.

DATASET Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

Artefact and context data from the Lilyvale excavation in 1989. Records were compiled and assessed by the EAMC team, and some terminology was normalised, but the core artefact descriptions were not modified. The original catalogue was co-ordinated by Wendy Thorp and Leah McKenzie.

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Report to INAH of 2001-2004 seasons of survey, surface collection, test-pitting and horizontal excavation of residential zone of Mayapan (in Spanish).

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Report to INAH of 2008-2009 seasons of horizontal excavations in the urban residential zone of Mayapan, including residences, workshops, and a temple and hall at the outlying ceremonial group of Itzmal Ch'en (in Spanish).

DATASET Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

Artefact and context data from the Paddy's Market excavation in 1993. Records were compiled and assessed by not modified by the EAMC team. The original catalogue was prepared by Godden Mackay Logan and Wendy Thorp.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook. Laila Ellmoos. Tim Murray.

This is the guide to the People+Place historical occupancy database developed by the EAMC team and released in 2006.

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A Phase III Data Recovery Excavation was conducted at the Clinton and Lark Historic Archeological Site (A00140.004690) by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. in July of 2020. The goal of the Project was to identify intact archeological deposits and features to excavate and record, as part of the mitigation effort. The Project entailed mechanical stripping of 156.6 m2 (1626 ft2, or 0.37 acres) as well as excavation and documentation of identified cultural features. Five features were...

DATASET Penny Crook.

Artefact and quality data from 129 Lambeth Road compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology".

DATASET Penny Crook.

Artefact and quality data from the Albert Embankment site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology".

DATASET Penny Crook.

Artefact and quality data from the Cumberland and Gloucester Street site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology".

DATASET Penny Crook.

Artefact and quality data from the Norfolk House site compiled for the dissertation "‘Superior Quality’: Exploring the nature of cost, quality and value in historical archaeology".

IMAGE Citation Only Penny Crook.

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

PROJECT Tim Murray. Susan Lawrence. Andrew May. Linda Young. Sarah Hayes.

This multi-disciplinary Australian Research Council-funded project is jointly held by La Trobe University, University of Melbourne and Deakin University. It engages archaeologists, historians and museologists in an investigation that places material culture at the centre of understandings of suburban middle-class life in Australian cities. The project responds to recent work on consumption, identity, and class formation about the need to investigate the material conditions of the urban middle...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Albert Embankment 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.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from129 Lambeth Road 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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Penny Crook.

Catalogue of artefact and quality data from the Norfolk House 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.

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...