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0000-0001-8158-7613
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University of New England
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeology | Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature) | Australian history | Digital heritage | Heritage tourism visitor and audience studies | Digital history | Archaeology of Australia (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) | History: Pacific | Archaeological Science | Archaeology Of Complex Societies: Asia, Africa, Oceania And The | Historical Archaeology (Incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history | Heritage archive and museum studies | Historical studies |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Conserving the Historic Environment | Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Collections and Movable Cultural Heritage | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
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Publications
World War II in the Solomon Islands
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 07-06-2023
The convict huts of Parramatta 1788–1841: an archaeological view of the development of an early Australian urban landscape
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2022
Diachronic fetishisation: Ruin porn and pitcairn island language, archaeology, and architecture
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
My father put them up there: Anthropogenic environmental change associated with abandoned river vessels in the Clarence River, NSW, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-07-2023
DOI: 10.1002/RRA.4176
Abstract: The Clarence River (New South Wales, Australia) was the main transport corridor for the timber and sugar cane industries operating in the catchment from the 1860s to the 1970s. Using archaeological, documentary, and oral historical resources we explore some of the anthropogenic impacts of these industries upon the fluvial geomorphology of the lower Clarence River. In particular, the deliberate abandonment of obsolete vessels on the river system is a focus. These discarded former cane and timber barges have been used as erosion control devices in several areas around the Harwood Island sugar mill, resulting in the accumulation of sediments and the establishment of mangrove environments in what were degraded areas.
When Margins are Centres: De-ranging Pitcairn Island's Place in Pacific Scholarship
Publisher: The Polynesian Society
Date: 09-2021
Useless graduates?: Why do we all think that something has gone wrong with Australian archaeological training?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
The Archaeology of the Convict Probation System: The Labor Landscapes of Port Arthur and the Cascades Probation Station, 1839–55
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-01-2020
Transforming the Colony: The Archaeology of Convictism in Western Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2018
Archaeology of the Solomon Islands By Walter, Richard and Sheppard, Peter Otago University Press, Dunedin, NZ, 2017 ISBN: 9780947522537. Pp. 200. NZD 50
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-09-2019
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5170
‘Uninformed and impractical’? The convict probation system and its impact upon the landscape of 1840s Van Diemen’s Land
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
‘ … One of the Most Severe Duties … ’: Landscapes of Timber-getting at a Former Tasmanian Convict Station
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-07-2020
Landscapes of production and punishment: LiDAR and the process of feature identification and analysis at a Tasmanian convict station
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict labour in the Australian context
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2018
Abstract: This paper presents an interdisciplinary project that uses archaeological and historical sources to explore the formation of a penal landscape in the Australian colonial context. The project focuses on the convict-period legacy of the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania, Australia), in particular the former penal station of Port Arthur (1830–1877). The research utilises three exceptional data series to examine the impact of convict labour on landscape and the convict body: the archaeological record of the Tasman Peninsula, the life course data of the convicts and the administrative record generated by decades of convict labour management. Through these, the research seeks to demonstrate how changing ideologies affected the processes and outcomes of convict labour and its products, as well as how the landscapes we see today were formed and developed in response to a complex interplay of multi-scalar penological and economic influences. Areas of inquiry: Australian convict archaeology and history. The archaeology and history of Australian convict labour management. The archaeology and history of the Tasman Peninsula.
Beyond the New World – the failed Spanish colonies of the Solomon Islands.
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2011
The People of Solomon: Performance in Cross-Cultural Contacts between Spanish and Melanesians in the Southwest Pacific, 1568 and 1595
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Date: 21-04-2020
Complex history of dog (Canis familiaris) origins and translocations in the Pacific revealed by ancient mitogenomes
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-06-2018
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-018-27363-8
Abstract: Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs were introduced to the islands of Oceania via Island Southeast Asia around 3,300 years ago, and reached the eastern islands of Polynesia by the fourteenth century AD. This dispersal is intimately tied to human expansion, but the involvement of dogs in Pacific migrations is not well understood. Our analyses of seven new complete ancient mitogenomes and five partial mtDNA sequences from archaeological dog specimens from Mainland and Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific suggests at least three dog dispersal events into the region, in addition to the introduction of dingoes to Australia. We see an early introduction of dogs to Island Southeast Asia, which does not appear to extend into the islands of Oceania. A shared haplogroup identified between Iron Age Taiwanese dogs, terminal-Lapita and post-Lapita dogs suggests that at least one dog lineage was introduced to Near Oceania by or as the result of interactions with Austronesian language speakers associated with the Lapita Cultural Complex. We did not find any evidence that these dogs were successfully transported beyond New Guinea. Finally, we identify a widespread dog clade found across the Pacific, including the islands of Polynesia, which likely suggests a post-Lapita dog introduction from southern Island Southeast Asia.
Maritime Archaeology at the Land-Sea Interface
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2006
The free and unfree settlements of Norfolk Island: an overview of archaeological research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2017
Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-03-2022
Please God Send Me a Wreck
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2015
Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-09-2015
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5072
Landscapes of production and punishment: convict labour management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830–1877
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 04-2018
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2018.58
Abstract: The ‘Landscapes of Production and Punishment’ project aims to examine how convict labour from 1830–1877 affected the built and natural landscapes of the Tasman Peninsula, as well as the lives of the convicts themselves.
Spanish Maritime Exploration in the South-west Pacific: the search for Mendana's lost 'almiranta, Santa Isabel', 1595
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-04-2015
The sherds of conquistadors: a petrological study of ceramics from Graciosa Bay and Pamua, Solomon Islands
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2013
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5003
Remote Sensing In An Urban Australian Setting: An Example from Dr H.J. Foley Rest Park, Sydney
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Landscapes of Redemption: Tracing the Path of a Convict Miner in Western Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-06-2010
Where the past happened: Using history and archaeology to locate Australia’s convicts
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 29-06-2023
Shipwrecks as Archaeological Signatures of a Maritime Industrial Frontier in the Solomon Islands, 1788–1942
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-10-2015
The archaeology of crisis: Shipwreck survivor camps in Australasia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-2003
DOI: 10.1007/BF03376597
The Failed Sixteenth Century Spanish Colonizing Expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Southwest Pacific: The Archaeologies of Settlement Process and Indigenous Agency
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Dynamics Of Dispersion Revisited? Archaeological Context and the Study of Aboriginal Knapped Glass Artefacts in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
The Convict System of New South Wales: A review of archaeological research since 2001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2012
Cultural Site Formation Processes in Maritime Archaeology: Disaster Response, Salvage and Muckelroy 30 Years on
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2006
Aboriginal prehistory, historical and contemporary archaeology in the Sydney Basin
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2012
Maritime Industry: Whaling
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 12-04-2022
Sherds on the Edge: Characterization of 16th Century Colonial Spanish Pottery Recovered from the Solomon Islands
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-07-2016
DOI: 10.1111/ARCM.12187
Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict labour in the Australian context
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2018
Abstract: This paper presents an interdisciplinary project that uses archaeological and historical sources to explore the formation of a penal landscape in the Australian colonial context. The project focuses on the convict-period legacy of the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania, Australia), in particular the former penal station of Port Arthur (1830–1877). The research utilises three exceptional data series to examine the impact of convict labour on landscape and the convict body: the archaeological record of the Tasman Peninsula, the life course data of the convicts and the administrative record generated by decades of convict labour management. Through these, the research seeks to demonstrate how changing ideologies affected the processes and outcomes of convict labour and its products, as well as how the landscapes we see today were formed and developed in response to a complex interplay of multi-scalar penological and economic influences. Areas of inquiry: Australian convict archaeology and history. The archaeology and history of Australian convict labour management. The archaeology and history of the Tasman Peninsula.
Early Port Arthur: Convict Colonization and the Formation of a Penal Station in Van Diemen’s Land 1830–35
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-11-2018
Digital preservation, online access and historical archaeology ‘grey literature’ from New South Wales, Australia Martin Gibbs and Sarah Colley
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
An Historical Archaeology of Labor in Convict Australia: A Framework for Engagement
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-08-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S41636-023-00433-Z
Abstract: Between 1788 and 1868 Britain transported some 171,000 male and female convicted felons to Australia, in the process establishing the foundation European population and instituting a process of invasion and colonization. The convict “system” remains a signature theme in Australian historical and archaeological research, contributing to a multitude of areas of investigation: punishment and reform, colonialism, and colonization process, as well as social aspiration and cultural transformation. This article provides an overview of the history, organization, and physical structure of the system. It then describes recent efforts to reunify the trajectories of archaeology, history, and historical criminology through cross-disciplinary projects, questions, and themes. It includes a description of the authors’ Landscapes of Production and Punishment research framework, which views the organization and administration of the convict system, as well as the shifting balances between punishment and reform, through a labor-systems analysis. This line of inquiry broadens the scope of archaeological interest away from its focus on prisons and institutional sites. It embraces a wider range of labor settings and products, including the dispersal of convicts across urban and frontier areas, and the operational logic behind the system. It also views the convicts both as in iduals and a labor force, and the raw materials, roads, buildings, and other items they extracted, constructed, or manufactured equally as “products” of the regime.
Aboriginal fish trap on the Swan Coastal Plain: the Barragup mungah
Publisher: Western Australian Museum
Date: 2011
Interpreting ground-penetrating radar By Lawrence B. Conyers Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1-61132-216-3. Pp. 220. AUD 126. Available from Footprint Books, Warriewood, NSW.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-10-2013
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5021
Whaling and Sealing in Nineteenth-Century Australia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 12-05-2021
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190095611.013.39
Abstract: The colonial industries of whaling and sealing dominated the first decades of nineteenth-century Australia. This article considers the archaeology of these maritime industries, particularly Aboriginal employment and labour. Examining both historical and precontact archaeology, we argue that the involvement of Aboriginal men and women was an extension of traditional hunting and ritual engagements. Whales and seals were sought out for food, rituals and other uses, and their harvesting involved both men and women. Although archaeological research into whaling and sealing in Australia has been relatively limited, it will prove a fruitful and revealing area, promising a nuanced understanding of Indigenous agency and colonial maritime expansion.
Sourcing olive jars using U-Pb ages of detrital zircons: A study of 16th century olive jars recovered from the Solomon Islands
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-12-2014
DOI: 10.1002/GEA.21462
Repopulating Landscapes: Using Offence Data to Recreate Landscapes of Incarceration and Labour at the Port Arthur Penal Station, 1830–1877
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 10-2019
Abstract: For over half-a-century (1803–54), the Australian colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), played a key part in Britain's globe-spanning unfree diaspora. Today, a rich built and archaeological landscape, augmented by an exhaustive and relatively intact documentary archive, stand as eloquent markers to this convict legacy. As historical archaeologists, we have spent countless hours querying the physical and documentary residues in a bid to understand how the penological, social and economic imperatives of Britain and the colony shaped the management of convict labour. In particular, our task has centred upon the recovery of in idual narratives – of both gaoler and gaoled – from such residues, moving away from a traditional focus on the broader outlines of the convict system. This paper illustrates how spatial history methodological processes have been used to relocate in idual historic lives back into the convict industrial landscape of the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania). Focusing on the male-only penal station of Port Arthur (1830–77), we will illustrate how we have reunited the physicality of past spaces and places, with the lives and labours of those who created and navigated them. Simple methodologies have been used to achieve this, designed with onward applicability in mind. A complex series of documents, convict conduct records, have been mined for spatial markers, allowing events and people to be relocated back into space. Through these processes of linkage and visualisation, we have been encouraged to ask further questions about the management of the unfree labour force and how this came to create the landscape we see today.
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