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Flinders University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Archaeological Science | Curatorial and Related Studies | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Aboriginal Cultural Studies | Other History And Archaeology | Archaeology of Australia (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) | Historical Archaeology (Incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Heritage And Conservation | Architecture | Tourism Not Elsewhere Classified | Landscape Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Understanding Australia's Past | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage | Conserving Collections and Movable Cultural Heritage | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Studies in human society | Preserving the built environment | Conserving the Historic Environment | Heritage not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
The Opportunities And Challenges Of Graduate Level Teaching in cultural heritage management
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Betwixt and Between: Trauma, Survival and the Aboriginal Troopers of the Queensland Native Mounted Police
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-2020
archaeology of everiday racism
Publisher: Revista Latino-Americana De Arqueologia Historica
Date: 19-08-2021
Abstract: This paper examines the role of material culture in replicating everyday racism in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. We argue that inclusivity is determined by inclusive design supported by inclusive behaviours and that archaeologists can inform the creation of a more equitable world by identifying how material culture acts to exclude certain groups and replicate inequalities that might otherwise go unnoticed. This paper is part of the social justice movement in archaeology that analyses material remains in both the past and the present to reveal relationships between racism, racial discrimination, and racial inequality.
A context for concealment: the historical archaeology of folk ritual and superstition in Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-10-2016
Flaked glass artifacts from nineteenth century Native Mounted Police camps in Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2022
Frontier Conflict and the Native Mounted Police in Queensland Database
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2019
The Islamic State’s symbolic war: Da'esh's socially mediated terrorism as a threat to cultural heritage
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-12-2015
Abstract: Using the Islamic State/Da'esh as a case study, we identify the genesis of a new form of terrorism arising from the convergence of networked social media and changes in the forms of conflict. Socially mediated terrorism is defined as ‘the use of social and networked media to increase the impact of violent acts undertaken to further a social, political and/or religious cause with the aim of creating physical, emotional or psychological suffering that extends beyond the immediate audience'. Our analysis distinguishes three strategies involving cultural heritage. The first is smoke, mirrors and mock destruction, which exaggerates perceptions of power and tests the impact of potential destruction. The second is shock, awe and censure, which uses international outrage to cloak the Islamic State with an aura of invincibility and highlight the impotence of its opponents. The third is financing the Kaliphate, which has transformed the ad hoc looting of archaeological sites into a business model. Iconoclasm has a lengthy history in which cultural icons were destroyed with the primary aim of subjugating local populations/audiences. In contrast, the Islamic State’s promotion of cultural heritage destruction through networked social media is directed simultaneously towards local, regional, and international audiences with reactions from one audience used to subdue, embolden or intrigue another. As such, networked social media can be viewed as a fresh – and currently under-rated – threat to cultural heritage in conflict zones. Finally, we draw attention to Bevan’s (2012) notion that crimes against cultural property can provide an early warning of potential genocide.
A report on a tektite (australite) artefact from Calperum Station in the western central River Murray region, South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Success Strategies for a Career in Archaeology
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2015
Connection, trespass, identity and a swastika
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-09-2020
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
Vestiges of Colonialism
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date: 06-2010
‘They call ‘im Crowie’: An investigation of the Aboriginal significance attributed to a wrecked River Murray barge in South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-11-2017
Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 1999
Weapons of the frontier wars
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 09-10-2023
The shape of absence: Community Archaeology and the heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-12-2021
Historical archaeology: Future
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2008
Fatal Frontier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 10-02-2021
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190095611.013.40
Abstract: Over the past two decades, archaeologists have explored aspects of Indigenous agency to better encompass experiences of cross-cultural contact in colonial Australia. Yet the area of frontier conflict has largely remained the purview of historians, in part because of challenges in identifying such events archaeologically. One alternative means through which to consider frontier conflict is to investigate the material remains of colonial policing forces. This article focuses on the c s of the Native Mounted Police, a paramilitary government force that operated in Queensland from 1849 (before the state was officially established) until the early decades of the twentieth century. During this period, this force variously occupied 174 c sites across Queensland, spread unevenly across pastoral and biogeographic districts. By mapping known events of frontier conflict (whether they be attacks on Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal people, stock, and/or property) across the state, we demonstrate that the extent and nature of frontier conflict was highly variable spatially and temporally, and was tied into a largely negative feedback loop with the deployment of the Native Mounted Police. Although Native Mounted Police c s did not form a defensive cordon of structures akin to a ‘frontier line’ across Queensland, they demarcated a frontier ‘zone’ that was contested, precarious, and violent. The fact that so many c s were required for such a long period provides clear evidence of the persistent and determined resistance of Aboriginal peoples to the theft of their land and the bloodshed that resulted.
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.
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
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
Fostering research excellence in an uncertain environment
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-05-2022
‘Childness’: An alternative approach to the archaeology of childhood through cemetery studies
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 25-07-2019
DOI: 10.3390/REL10080451
Abstract: Notions of childhood in colonial Australia were informed by a variety of social contexts that varied across time and space and were given material expression in the memorialization of children’s burials. Using data drawn from two studies of nineteenth-century cemeteries in rural South Australia, in this paper, we suggest an alternative way to understand children archaeologically that avoids the trap of essentialism: the notion of ‘childness’. Childness is defined as the multiple conceptions of being, and being labeled, a child. The concept of being a child may be instantiated in different ways according to particular social, cultural, chronological, and religious contexts childness is the measure of this variation. In Western historical settings, the most likely causes for such variation are the social processes of class and status via the closely associated ideologies of gentility and respectability and their attendant expectations around labor, as well as the shifts they represent in the social ideology of the family. Exploring childness, rather than children, provides an alternative way to approach the histories of contemporary Western understandings of childhood, including when particular types of childhood began and ended, and according to what criteria in different contexts, as well as how boundaries between child and adult were continually being established and re-negotiated.
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
A Comprehensive Online Database about the Native Mounted Police and Frontier Conflict in Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2022
Pursuing social justice through collaborative archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-09-2019
Oral Tradition, History, and Archaeohistory of Indigenous Australia
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 20-10-2021
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190095611.013.5
Abstract: This article considers some of the uncertainties about the position of oral traditions in relation to historical studies with written texts and in the narrative studies derived from archaeological evidence that may be called archaeohistories. There are issues about the ways in which we learn about Indigenous peoples, sometimes using non-Indigenous people as intermediaries and sometimes, though rarely, in the direct voices of Indigenous peoples. This article discusses the relationships among oral history, oral tradition, history from written texts, and archaeohistory, including the role of sanctification in the survival of knowledge. This discussion includes some consideration of the accuracies of these sources given the different time and personal scales over which they operate. Illustrating the argument with ex les of Indigenous oral knowledge from communities in different parts of eastern Australia, it then discusses the possibility that other Indigenous accounts include narratives about different sea levels around Australia. The article concludes with a discussion of the complex interplay of memory and forgetting, verifiable secular knowledge and ritual beliefs, and different classes of historical knowledge. Application of different cultural knowledge to these sources by different agents produces different accounts of the past.
‘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
In Search of the Hidden Irish: Historical Archaeology, Identity and “Irishness” in Nineteenth-Century South Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-10-2018
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
Affective Aprons
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-08-2019
From loop-holes to labour
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Beyond The Looking-Glass: Some Thoughts On Sociopolitics And Reflexivity In Australian Archaeology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1994
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.
Global Archaeology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 24-03-2021
DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0260
Abstract: Global archaeology is the archaeology of globalization, documenting and unearthing the material markers of its origins, trajectories, manifestations, and repercussions. In the 1980s, when globalization first developed as a major force, there was a sense of excitement, along with some foreboding. Closely connected to ideals of democracy, in idualism, capitalism, and free markets, globalization promised to break down barriers between people in different parts of the world, open borders, improve communications, and create new opportunities. Enhanced understandings and greater world peace seemed an inevitable outcome. However, in the early 21st century, it is clear that the world is undergoing profound environmental, economic, and social transformations, and that many of these changes are problematic. Globalization has exacerbated old stresses and dislocations and created new issues of serious concern. Inequality continues to grow, both within and between countries. Racism, discrimination, and exclusion are hot issues, as are nationalist backlashes against migrants. The lifestyles of people in First World countries are prompting changes in climate that may actually drown some Pacific nations. Archaeology functions as a tool for analyzing the material correlates of the shifts and schisms wrought by globalization. Descending from various strands of archaeological research that seek in one way or another to promote a better potential future, calls for a more “present- and future-oriented archaeology” (Harrison 2011, p. 144) have come from a variety of sub-disciplinary directions, including contemporary archaeology, Indigenous archaeology, and historical archaeology. Archaeologists can record sites on islands that may soon vanish due to climate change. They can identify the manner in which material inequities visually communicate and reinforce economic inequalities. They can identify disconnections and dislocations and provide new insights into social change as it takes place. They can highlight injustices that are normalized by contemporary values and, through this, provide impetus for a different future. Accordingly, this chapter focuses on those branches of archaeology that address the impact of globalization. The topics range from climate change and colonialism to forced migration and the influence of information and communication technologies. Underlying them all are issues of inequality, social justice, ethics, and human rights. Some publications focus on the “big picture” changes that have been wrought by globalization, while others provide in-depth local case studies. All are joined by a common perspective that values the assessment of local conditions in terms of how they are shaped by global circumstances.
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.
Engravings and rock coatings at Pudjinuk Rockshelter No. 2, South Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Invasion, Retaliation, Concealment and Silences at Dead Man's Flat, South Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-06-2021
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