Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City (EAMC)

Part of: La Trobe University

This collection includes resources produced by the Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City (EAMC) project, 2001-2004.

Site Name Keywords
Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site (The Rocks) • Lilyvale site (Cumberland Street, The Rocks) • First Government House site (Sydney) • Paddy's Market site (Haymarket)

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • House • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Agricultural or Herding • Terrace • Domestic • Cottage • Urban • Industrial

Other Keywords
Comparative assemblage analysis

Culture Keywords
Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) (FOR 210108)

Material Types
Ceramic • Glass • Building Materials • Metal • miscellaneous • Organic

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • late-18th century • early-20th century • Convict era

Geographic Keywords
Commonwealth of Australia (Country) • Australia (Continent) • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • New South Wales (State / Territory)

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  • Cumberland and Gloucester Streets (CUGL) artefact data (2006)
    DATASET Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

    Complete suite of datasets from the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets assemblage (completed in 1999), as upgraded for the Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City project (2001-2004).

  • EAMC Archaeology Database (v1.0) (2006)
    DATASET Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

    The EAMC Archaeology Database is a customised relational database, created in Microsoft Access, and designed to store, display, search and analyse archaeological data. It contains: a detailed catalogue of artefacts; a register of stratigraphic context data; a register of type series data the capacity to hold multiple images of key artefacts; in-built data definitions; and a range of tools to make the task of cataloguing assemblages more efficient. Released in 2006, it drew together, for the...

  • First Government House datasets (2005)
    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.

  • Lilyvale datasets (2006)
    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.