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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Archaeological Science | Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Geochemistry | Archaeology of Australia (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Inorganic Geochemistry | Isotope Geochemistry
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Understanding Asia's Past | Mineral Exploration not elsewhere classified |
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Radiocarbon dates for coastal midden sites at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Coping together with hearing loss: a qualitative meta-synthesis of the psychosocial experiences of people with hearing loss and their communication partners
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2017
DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2017.1286695
Abstract: To examine the psychosocial experiences of hearing loss from the perspectives of both the person with hearing loss and their communication partner. A meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature. From 880 records, 12 qualitative papers met the inclusion criteria, (i) adults with hearing loss, communication partners, or both, and (ii) explored psychosocial issues. Four themes related to the psychosocial experience of hearing loss were found, (i) the effect of the hearing loss, (ii) the response to hearing aids, (iii) stigma and identity, and (iv) coping strategies. Hearing loss affected both people with hearing loss and communication partners. Hearing aids resulted in positive effects, however, these were often outnumbered by negative effects. Non-use of hearing aids was often influenced by stigma. Coping strategies used were related to how the person with hearing loss perceived their self and how the communication partner perceived the relationship. Aligned coping strategies appeared to have a positive effect. Hearing loss affects both people with hearing loss and their communication partners. Aligned coping strategies can facilitate adjustment to hearing loss.
Analysis and contextualisation of a Holocene bone point from Murrawong (Glen Lossie), Lower Murray River Gorge, South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Flaked glass artifacts from nineteenth century Native Mounted Police camps in Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2022
Integrating geoarchaeology and magnetic susceptibility at three shell mounds: A pilot study from Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
The first Australian plant foods at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-02-2020
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-020-14723-0
Abstract: There is little evidence for the role of plant foods in the dispersal of early modern humans into new habitats globally. Researchers have hypothesised that early movements of human populations through Island Southeast Asia and into Sahul were driven by the lure of high-calorie, low-handling-cost foods, and that the use of plant foods requiring processing was not common in Sahul until the Holocene. Here we present the analysis of charred plant food remains from Madjedbebe rockshelter in northern Australia, dated to between 65 kya and 53 kya. We demonstrate that Australia’s earliest known human population exploited a range of plant foods, including those requiring processing. Our finds predate existing evidence for such subsistence practices in Sahul by at least 23ky. These results suggest that dietary breadth underpinned the success of early modern human populations in this region, with the expenditure of labour on the processing of plants guaranteeing reliable access to nutrients in new environments.
Recent archaeological surveys on Middle Park Station, northwest Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
The shape of absence: Community Archaeology and the heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-12-2021
Geophysical prospection for late holocene burials in coastal environments: Possibilities and problems from a pilot study in South Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-07-2010
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.20321
A systematic review and meta-analysis assessing the effectiveness of alternative listening devices to conventional hearing aids in adults with hearing loss
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-10-2018
DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2018.1493546
Abstract: Recent technological advances have led to a rapid increase in alternative listening devices to conventional hearing aids. The aim was to systematically review the existing evidence to assess the effectiveness of alternative listening devices in adults with mild and moderate hearing loss. A systematic search strategy of the scientific literature was employed, reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) checklist. Eleven studies met eligibility for inclusion: two studies evaluated personal sound lification products, and nine studies assessed remote microphone systems (frequency modulation, Bluetooth, wireless). The evidence in this review suggests that alternative listening devices improve behavioural measures of speech intelligibility relative to unaided and/or aided conditions. Evidence for whether alternative listening devices improve self-reported outcomes is inconsistent. The evidence was judged to be of poor to good quality and subject to bias due to limitations in study design. Our overall recommendation is that high-quality evidence (i.e. randomised controlled trials) is required to demonstrate the effectiveness of alternative listening devices. Such evidence is not currently available and is necessary to guide healthcare commissioners and policymakers when considering new service delivery models for adults with hearing loss. Review registration: Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO), CRD42015029582.
Late Holocene human remains from northwest Queensland, Australia: archaeology and palaeopathology
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2006
Locating places for repatriated burial: a case study from Ngarrindjeri ruwe, South Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00097350
Abstract: In this ingenious co-operative case study, archaeologists and Indigenous peoples use geophysical survey to scan suitable places for the reburial of repatriated human remains. The process is also building a procedure for the low impact and respectful research of early Indigenous burial locations.
Aboriginal stone huts along the Georgina River, southwest Queensland
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 08-08-2017
DOI: 10.25120/QAR.20.2017.3584
Abstract: This paper reports on the recording of previously unpublished Aboriginal stone hut structures in southwestern Queensland. Located along the Georgina River, these 15 structures are typical of the region, being generally circular in plan view, with an average diameter of 5m and a 1m-wide opening consistently positioned to afford protection from prevailing winds. Evidence suggests these structures were roofed with vegetation and, while they pre-date the contact period, appear also to have been used into at least the late 1800s. Artefacts associated with them include stone flakes, cores and edge-ground axe fragments, freshwater mussel shells, rifle cartridge cases, fragments of glass, and metal objects. A comparison of these stone hut structures is made with similar features from elsewhere in Australia, demonstrating that there was a widespread but consistent use of stone for construction. This short report contributes to an increasing awareness of, and literature about, built structures in traditional Aboriginal societies.
Demonstrating the potential of amberat middens for understanding late Quaternary palaeoenvironments in the Central Pilbara, western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Pleistocene Settlement of Deserts from an Australian Perspective
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
Global Deserts in Perspective
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
Codesigned Archaeological Research in the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 17-07-2023
DOI: 10.1017/AAP.2023.10
Abstract: In much of the Western world, collaborative research undertaken by settler archaeologists readily lends itself, at least in part, to a continuation of the colonial project. Yet, against this backdrop, Australia's First Nations’ peoples continue to work with researchers and to drive systemic change in research practice. Community-engaged archaeology, defined here as codeveloped studies of ancestral places (following Schaepe et al. 2017), is directed to improving relationships between Indigenous peoples and archaeologists. Even so, the practice of archaeology with and for nonsettler communities remains underdeveloped with regard to institutional priorities and funding agency bureaucracies. Here, we (Mirarr Traditional Owners, Mirarr employees, and settler archaeologist researchers) reflect on these issues as part of our ongoing research on the ochres and bim (rock art) of the well-known Madjedbebe rockshelter in the Alligator Rivers region, Northern Territory, Australia.
Northern Australian offshore island use during the Holocene: The archaeology of Vanderlin Island, Sir Edward Pellew Group, Gulf of Carpentaria
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Broadcasting, listening and the mysteries of public engagement: an investigation of the AAA online audience
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2015
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2014
Indigenous and modern biomaterials derived from Triodia (‘spinifex’) grasslands in Australia
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1071/BT11285
Abstract: Plant-derived fibres and resins can provide biomaterials with environmental, health and financial benefits. Australian arid zone grasses have not been explored as sources of modern biomaterials including building materials. Triodia grasslands are a dominant vegetation type in the arid and semiarid regions of Australia covering a third of the continent. Of the 69 identified Triodia species, 26 produce resin from specialised cells in the outer leaf epidermis. In Aboriginal culture, Triodia biomass and resin were valued for their usefulness in cladding shelters and as a hafting agent. Since European settlement, Triodia grasslands have been used for cattle grazing and burning is a common occurrence to improve pasture value and prevent large-scale fires. Although Triodia grasslands are relatively stable to fires, more frequent and large-scale fires impact on other fire sensitive woody and herbaceous species associated with Triodia and invasion of exotic weeds resulting in localised changes in vegetation structure and composition. The extent and change occurring in Triodia grasslands as a result of altered land-use practices, fire regimes, and changing climate warrant careful consideration of their future management. Localised harvesting of Triodia grasslands could have environmental benefits and provide much needed biomaterials for desert living. Research is underway to evaluate the material properties of Triodia biomass and resin in the context of Indigenous and western scientific knowledge. Here, we review uses of Triodia and highlight research needs if sustainable harvesting is to be considered.
A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in Northern Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-06-2018
Disrupting paradise: Has Australian archaeology lost its way?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
65,000-years of continuous grinding stone use at Madjedbebe, Northern Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-07-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-022-15174-X
Abstract: Grinding stones and ground stone implements are important technological innovations in later human evolution, allowing the exploitation and use of new plant foods, novel tools (e.g., bone points and edge ground axes) and ground pigments. Excavations at the site of Madjedbebe recovered Australia’s (if not one of the world’s) largest and longest records of Pleistocene grinding stones, which span the past 65 thousand years (ka). Microscopic and chemical analyses show that the Madjedbebe grinding stone assemblage displays the earliest known evidence for seed grinding and intensive plant use, the earliest known production and use of edge-ground stone hatchets (aka axes), and the earliest intensive use of ground ochre pigments in Sahul (the Pleistocene landmass of Australia and New Guinea). The Madjedbebe grinding stone assemblage reveals economic, technological and symbolic innovations exemplary of the phenotypic plasticity of Homo sapiens dispersing out of Africa and into Sahul.
A Comprehensive Online Database about the Native Mounted Police and Frontier Conflict in Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2022
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
‘On the brink of a fever stricken swamp’: Culturally modified trees and land-people relationships at the Lower Laura (Boralga) Native Mounted Police camp, Cape York Peninsula
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2014
Cultural conflict in text and materiality: the impact of words and lead on the northwest Queensland colonial frontier, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2020
Effectiveness of alternative listening devices to conventional hearing aids for adults with hearing loss: a systematic review protocol: Table 1
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 10-2016
Environmental context for late Holocene human occupation of the South Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
Robust local vegetation records from dense archaeological shell matrixes: a palynological analysis of the Thundiy shell deposit, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-10-2016
Late Holocene Changes in Shellfishing Behaviors From the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2014
The Discipline of Dress: Uniform Buttons and Accoutrements of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-07-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S41636-023-00405-3
Abstract: Clothing is capable of providing a range of insights into aspects of identity, authority, power, and hierarchy. Here we present the results of an analysis of an assemblage of uniform buttons and accoutrements from seven 19th-century Native Mounted Police (NMP) c s in Queensland, Australia. As part of wider colonial structures of discipline and expropriation, the NMP uniform was a powerful symbol of control: over troopers’ bodies, over NMP detachments by officers, and over “wild” and “savage” Indigenous peoples by the NMP. Exploring the history and development of the NMP uniform, its intent in constructing officers and particularly troopers, the indexical qualities it acquired as a symbol of violence and fear amongst Indigenous people, and some of the alternative ways in which uniforms could be worn provides a variety of insights into the role, nature, and experience of the Queensland NMP.
Huts and stone arrangements at Hilary Creek, western Queensland
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 20-03-2021
DOI: 10.25120/QAR.24.2021.3799
Abstract: This paper reports on an Aboriginal site complex, incorporating hut structures, ceremonial stone arrangements, an extensive surface artefact assemblage of lithics and mussel shell, and a silcrete quarry, located along Hilary Creek, a tributary of the Georgina River in western Queensland, Australia. At least two phases of occupation are indicated. The most recent huts have their collapsed organic superstructure still present, while those of a presumably earlier phase are distinguished as bare, circular patches of earth which are conspicuous amongst the ubiquitous gibber, with or without stone bases, and lacking any collapsed superstructure. Immediately adjacent to the huts and also a few hundred metres away are clusters of small stone arrangements, and about 2 km to the southwest, along the same creekline, is another series of larger, more substantial stone arrangements these features speak to the importance of the general Hilary Creek area for ceremonial purposes. Radiocarbon dating reveals use of the Hilary Creek complex dates to at least 300 years ago the absence of any European materials suggests it was likely not used, or only used very sporadically, after the 1870s when pastoralists arrived in the area, and when traditional lifeways were devastated by colonial violence.
Indigenous Rock Art Tourism in Australia: Contexts, Trajectories, and Multifaceted Realities
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 06-12-2019
DOI: 10.3390/ARTS8040162
Abstract: This paper focuses on Australian Indigenous rock art tourism, a field that has received limited research attention. Our aim is to identify aspects which are invisible in tourism promotions. We note trends in rock art tourism and related research, survey the Australian situation, and employ a case study approach to outline the development of Indigenous rock art tourism in Kakadu National Park (KNP) and parts of the Quinkan (Laura Cooktown) region. In both regions, Aboriginal communities inherited legacies of top down decision-making and bureaucratic methods. Although the Laura people transitioned to a community-based system and a successful ranger program, they face challenges in achieving their aspirations for sustainable rock art tourism. KNP communities, subsumed into an unwieldy joint management arrangement for the World Heritage listed National Park, are faced with competing values and perspectives of the dominant government system. A centerpiece of the Balnggarrawarra tourism initiative is the ranger/tour guide system of the type which operated for some years at Laura and was introduced briefly at KNP. The model incorporates key elements of sustainable Indigenous tourism–traditional owner control and jobs, land care, conservation, cultural preservation, partnerships, and public education. Notwithstanding contemporary challenges and realities, a unifying theme is caring for rock art.
Geophysical and archaeological investigations of Baker’s Flat, a nineteenth century historic Irish site in South Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2020
Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-2017
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE22968
Abstract: The time of arrival of people in Australia is an unresolved question. It is relevant to debates about when modern humans first dispersed out of Africa and when their descendants incorporated genetic material from Neanderthals, Denisovans and possibly other hominins. Humans have also been implicated in the extinction of Australia's megafauna. Here we report the results of new excavations conducted at Madjedbebe, a rock shelter in northern Australia. Artefacts in primary depositional context are concentrated in three dense bands, with the stratigraphic integrity of the deposit demonstrated by artefact refits and by optical dating and other analyses of the sediments. Human occupation began around 65,000 years ago, with a distinctive stone tool assemblage including grinding stones, ground ochres, reflective additives and ground-edge hatchet heads. This evidence sets a new minimum age for the arrival of humans in Australia, the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, and the subsequent interactions of modern humans with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
The Opportunities And Challenges Of Graduate Level Teaching in cultural heritage management
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Reconstructing late Holocene palaeoenvironments in Bangladesh: phytolith analysis of archaeological soils from Somapura Mahavihara site in the Paharpur area, Badalgacchi Upazila, Naogaon District, Bangladesh
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
Betwixt and Between: Trauma, Survival and the Aboriginal Troopers of the Queensland Native Mounted Police
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-2020
Understanding Old People's burial places: A case study from Ngarrindjeri ruwe, South Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2009
Ground‐penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-09-2014
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5039
Developing baseline data to understand environmental change: A geochemical study of archaeological otoliths from the Coorong, South Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2011
The archaeological signature of ‘ant bed’ mound floors in the northern tropics of Australia: Case study on the Lower Laura (Boralga) Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York Peninsula
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
65,000 years of changing plant food and landscape use at Madjedbebe, Mirarr country, northern Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Weapons of the frontier wars
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 09-10-2023
Exploring ground-penetrating radar and sediment magnetic susceptibility analyses in a sandstone rockshelter in northern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Trialing geophysical techniques in the identification of open Indigenous sites in Australia: A case study from inland northwest Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
A multi-technique approach to contextualising painted rock art in the Central Pilbara of Western Australia: Integrating in-field and laboratory methods
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
Physico-thermal properties of spinifex resin bio-polymer
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
The distribution, chronology and significance of late Holocene aged stone-based structures on Pitta Pitta Country, western Queensland
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 10-2023
An overview of leaf phytolith production patterns in selected northwest Australian flora
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2003
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHEVOL.2015.03.014
Abstract: Published ages of >50 ka for occupation at Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II) in Australia's north have kept the site prominent in discussions about the colonisation of Sahul. The site also contains one of the largest stone artefact assemblages in Sahul for this early period. However, the stone artefacts and other important archaeological components of the site have never been described in detail, leading to persistent doubts about its stratigraphic integrity. We report on our analysis of the stone artefacts and faunal and other materials recovered during the 1989 excavations, as well as the stratigraphy and depositional history recorded by the original excavators. We demonstrate that the technology and raw materials of the early assemblage are distinctive from those in the overlying layers. Silcrete and quartzite artefacts are common in the early assemblage, which also includes edge-ground axe fragments and ground haematite. The lower flaked stone assemblage is distinctive, comprising a mix of long convergent flakes, some radial flakes with faceted platforms, and many small thin silcrete flakes that we interpret as thinning flakes. Residue and use-wear analysis indicate occasional grinding of haematite and woodworking, as well as frequent abrading of platform edges on thinning flakes. We conclude that previous claims of extensive displacement of artefacts and post-depositional disturbance may have been overstated. The stone artefacts and stratigraphic details support previous claims for human occupation 50-60 ka and show that human occupation during this time differed from later periods. We discuss the implications of these new data for understanding the first human colonisation of Sahul.
Lithic technologies from a stone hut and arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country Queensland, and the detection of social learning in archaeology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2022
A nardoo processing grinding stone from a rockshelter in the Pilbara, Western Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2020
Style, space and social interaction: An Archaeological Investigation of Rock Art in Inland North Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Nervous nation: Fear, conflict and narratives of fortified domestic architecture on the Queensland frontier
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 27-05-2021
The homestead as fortress: Fact or folklore?
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 20-12-2017
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/17506980231170353
Abstract: The colonial history of nineteenth-century Queensland was arguably dominated by the actions of the Native Mounted Police, Australia’s most punitive native policing force. The centrality of the Native Mounted Police to the sustained economic success of Queensland for over half a century, and their widespread, devastating effects on Aboriginal societies across the colony, have left a complex legacy. For non-Indigenous Queenslanders, a process of obscuring the Native Mounted Police began perhaps as soon as a detachment was removed from an area, reflected today in the minimisation of the Native Mounted Police in official histories and their omission from non-Indigenous heritage lists. In contrast, the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Database preserves several elements of frontier conflict and Native Mounted Police presence, giving rise to parallel state-level narratives, neither of which map directly onto local and regional memory. This highlights potential issues for formal processes of truth-telling relating to frontier conflict that have recently been initiated by the Queensland and Federal Governments. Of particular concern is the form that such a process might adopt. Drawing on a 4-year project to document the workings of the Queensland Native Mounted Police through archival, archaeological and oral historical sources, we suggest that this conflicted and conflictual heritage can best be bridged through empathetic truth-telling, using Rothberg’s notion of the implicated subject to consider contemporary contexts of responsibility and connect present-day Queenslanders with this difficult, isive and disruptive past.
The archaeology of the ‘Secret War’: The material evidence of conflict on the Queensland frontier, 1849–1901
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 21-07-2020
DOI: 10.25120/QAR.23.2020.3720
Abstract: Although the historical record relating to nineteenth century frontier conflict between Aboriginal groups and Europeans in Queensland has been clearly documented, there have been limited associated archaeological studies. As part of the Archaeology of the Queensland Native Mounted Police (NMP) project, this paper canvasses the physical imprint of frontier conflict across Queensland between 1849 and the early 1900s, focusing specifically on the activities and c sites of the NMP, the paramilitary government-sanctioned force tasked with policing Aboriginal people to protect settler livelihoods. At least 148 NMP c s of varying duration once existed, and historical and archaeological investigations of these demonstrate some consistent patterning amongst them, as well as idiosyncrasies depending on in idual locations and circumstances. All c s were positioned with primary regard to the availability of water and forage. Owing to their intended temporary nature and the frugality of the government, the surviving structural footprints of c s are generally limited. Buildings were typically timber slab and bark constructions with few permanent foundations and surviving architectural features are therefore rare, limited to elements such as ant bed flooring, remnant house or yard posts, stone lines demarcating pathways, and stone fireplaces. Architectural forms of spatial confinement, such as lockups or palisades, were absent from the c s themselves. The most distinctive features of NMP c s, and what allows them to be distinguished from the myriad pastoral sites of similar ages, are their artefact assemblages, especially the combined presence of gilt uniform buttons with the Victoria Regina insignia, knapped bottle glass, and certain ammunition-related objects.
The Queensland Native Police and Strategies of Recruitment on the Queensland Frontier, 1849–1901
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-05-2018
Editorial
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2015
Gledswood shelter 1: Initial radiocarbon dates from a Pleistocene aged Rockshelter site in Northwest Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Fishhooks, fishing spears, and weaving: The bone technology of Madjedbebe, Northern Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-02-2023
DOI: 10.1002/OA.3201
Abstract: Archeological assemblages of osseous material culture are rare in the Australian context, especially in the north where environmental conditions are not usually conducive to organic preservation. Nevertheless, more than 230 bone artifacts were recovered from the site of Madjedbebe, located in the Mirarr clan estate of the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Of these artifacts, 199 have been identified to tool type. Here, we present the analysis of this exceptional assemblage, including the recovery of one‐piece jabbing fishhooks, numerous fishing‐spear tips, fragments of weaving tools, and possible osseous elements originating from ornamental pieces. The size and ersity of the Madjedbebe osseous technology assemblage is unique in the north and provides new insights into the lives of Mirarr peoples over the past 7,000 years.
Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-01-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-020-01379-8
Abstract: Little is known about the Pleistocene climatic context of northern Australia at the time of early human settlement. Here we generate a palaeoprecipitation proxy using stable carbon isotope analysis of modern and archaeological pandanus nutshell from Madjedbebe, Australia’s oldest known archaeological site. We document fluctuations in precipitation over the last 65,000 years and identify periods of lower precipitation during the penultimate and last glacial stages, Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 2. However, the lowest effective annual precipitation is recorded at the present time. Periods of lower precipitation, including the earliest phase of occupation, correspond with peaks in exotic stone raw materials and artefact discard at the site. This pattern is interpreted as suggesting increased group mobility and intensified use of the region during drier periods.
Wolfe Creek Crater: A continuous sediment fill in the Australian Arid Zone records changes in monsoon strength through the Late Quaternary
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Environmental history of northwest Australia based on phytolith analysis at Carpenter's Gap 1
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2001
Looking for the proverbial needle? The archaeology of Australian colonial frontier massacres
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2011
Using Soil Magnetic Properties to Determine the Onset of Pleistocene Human Settlement at Gledswood Shelter 1, Northern Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2016
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21544
Holocene grinding stones at Madjedbebe reveal the processing of starchy plant taxa and animal tissue
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
Editorial
Publisher: EManuscript Technologies
Date: 19-04-2012
The point of spinifex: Aboriginal uses of spinifex grasses in Australia
Publisher: Ilia State University
Date: 15-04-2012
Secret and safe: The underlife of concealed objects from the Royal Derwent Hospital, New Norfolk, Tasmania
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-02-2020
Abstract: This paper focuses on a collection of objects deliberately concealed beneath the verandah of a ward for middle-class, female, paying patients at Australia’s longest continuously operating mental health institution, the Royal Derwent Hospital in Tasmania. Cached in small discrete mounds across an area of some 50 square metres, the collection was probably concealed in the mid-20th century and contains over 1000 items of clothing, ephemera and other objects dating from 1880 to the mid-1940s. In achieving a possessional territory of such magnitude, this patient achieved a level of personal self-expression that is rarely encountered archaeologically, particularly within an institutional context. Analysis of this collection as an ‘underlife’ illuminates both functional aspects of the hospital and the hopes and desires of this particular, though still anonymous, patient and her vibrant world of things.
THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE: THE RESONANCE OF TRADITION – Edited by Luke Taylor, Graeme K. Ward, Graham Henderson, Richard Davis, and Lynley A. Wallis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2008
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