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{"title":"The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea","authors":"P. White","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2023.2190638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2023.2190638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"89 1","pages":"92 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44656843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Michael Alexander Smith, BA Hons, MA, PhD, FAHA, FSA, Rhys Jones Medal (2006), Verco Medal (2010), Order of Australia (AM, 2013), UNE Distinguished Alumni (2015), born England 1955, died Canberra 16 October 2022","authors":"J. Ross, Alan Williams, A. McConnell","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2023.2192902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2023.2192902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"89 1","pages":"88 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45335698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why do students enrol in archaeology at Australian universities? Understanding pre-enrolment experiences, motivations, and career expectations","authors":"C. Monks, Georgia L. Stannard, Sven Ouzman, T. Manne, Joel Garside, Sean Ulm","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2023.2175949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2023.2175949","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study presents the first data on a level one archaeology student cohort, exploring their demographic composition and motivations for enrolling, as well as external stressors such as health and caring responsibilities that may influence student study goals, retention, and needs. A survey of 107 students enrolled in introductory level archaeology units at 13 Australian universities was undertaken in Semester 1, 2021. The results show a diverse cohort by age, gender, and educational background. Consistent with the professional Australian archaeological community, there is little diversity in the ethnicity of enrolled students. Further, many respondents reported having caring responsibilities, and both physical and mental health concerns. Students were motivated to enrol both for general interest and future career pathways; however, there was a poor understanding within the cohort of Australian archaeological job opportunities. These results indicate that there is clearly much to be done in public archaeological engagement and outreach in Australia. What is required of the Australian archaeological community is a concerted effort to improve how the discipline is taught and learned across all levels of education, and a collaborative approach to designing teaching methods suitable for our modern student cohort.","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"89 1","pages":"32 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44804021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The challenges of attribution","authors":"R. Derricourt","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2023.2190556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2023.2190556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"89 1","pages":"78 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42710573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society","authors":"Sean Oneill","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2022.2140269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2022.2140269","url":null,"abstract":"domination to an almost caricatured height. The narrative also undermines the pervasive assumptions about ‘collapses’ and ‘dark ages’ that underpin the times and spaces away from what appears to be state power in the archaeological record. Further, the notion that ‘ancient civilisation’ need be parsed as ‘old state’ is deconstructed and disposed of, with a detour through Minoan Crete (pp.434–439). Imagine the new narratives that might come from presenting the grandness of life in civilisations that called no man ‘king’, from the Tannese kava drinking fraternities to the master painters of Arnhem Land. Chapter 11 takes a final swipe at the teleological framework traditionally used to describe human social evolution in anthropology. The pathway from small, egalitarian bands to hierarchical states is neither linear, nor is it historically or even logically inevitable. North American anthropology and archaeology provide further examples of immense interaction spheres, the construction of complex monuments with a shared standard design and dimensions, and a system of shared animal totems to facilitate movement across the continent, all without a centralised government or paramount ruler. The parallels with Aboriginal Australia are fairly obvious in this case, but there could equally be connections made to Pacific cultures and their maritime networks, or the archaeology of Island Southeast Asia’s so-called ‘theatre’ states. The ambition of this book is perhaps reflected in the fact that its conclusion poses a series of questions rather than providing definitive answers. These have to do with the nature of states, violence, warfare, family structures, and ultimately how our own globalised society seems so incapable of enacting the three freedoms in any concerted or sustainable way. Having dismantled the mythology of modern social science’s approach to the rise of civilisations (as seen mostly through the lenses of anthropology and archaeology), Graeber and Wengrow part with a musing on what myths might be crafted to replace the just-so stories they work so hard to reject. Unfortunately, with Graeber’s untimely passing in 2020, we will never know what sequels to The Dawn of Everything might have told us. That is fine, as it is not Graeber’s job (nor Wengrow’s for that matter) to tell us everything we need to know. Instead, it is up to us to decide how we will pick up the framework that Graeber and Wengrow have woven, what threads we will add to it, what we will keep, and what we will modify or discard. What new history of humanity would emerge if rather than a fairly small, wilfully misinterpreted, unevenly sampled portion of Eurasia, we placed Aboriginal Australia, the Fijian highlands, or coastal Borneo in the centre of the story? All it takes is us imagining more realistic, radically hopeful worlds in which our region’s past contributes a future. As a final note, I have written this review with the interest of AA readers in mind. The book, which featu","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"88 1","pages":"330 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47806994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sawpits in the forest: A case study of a failed timber-getting operation during the nineteenth century","authors":"S. Winter","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2022.2138103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2022.2138103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The nineteenth century timber industry in Western Australia relied on traditional British technologies and struggled to deal with massive old-growth jarrah trees, and the subsequent transportation of milled timber to market. Mason’s Mill, situated in the Darling Range to the east of Perth, had access to a vast amount of high quality timber, yet was economically unviable for most of its 20 year history, ultimately failing in the mid-1870s. Archaeological survey of the mill site and associated primary extractive sites demonstrate that a significant corpus of evidence of timber-getting activities remains in the forest. While ephemeral, this evidence allows a greater understanding of difficulties encountered by early timber-getting operations, and how reliance on obsolete technologies, and inadequate transport options, ultimately undermined Mason’s Mill’s ability to succeed.","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"88 1","pages":"228 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43524642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building on the past: Refining our current understanding of Lapita stilt structures","authors":"N. Hogg, Yi-lin E. Chen, G. Summerhayes, G. Boswijk, S. Manning, A. Hogg, C. Gosden","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2022.2148184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2022.2148184","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper reviews our current knowledge of Lapita stilt structures in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, and contributes new data from the analysis of a wooden post belonging to a Lapita-era stilt structure identified in the site of Adwe in the Arawe Islands. Via taxonomic analysis, the wooden post is identified as Intsia bijuga (Moluccan ironwood or Pacific teak), a saltwater-resistant species that would have proven to be a highly durable construction material. The selective usage of sturdy timber including Intsia bijuga, cf. Cordia subcordata, Diospyros sp., cf. Terminalia catappa and Calophyllum inophyllum as building materials at various Lapita sites, suggests that the Lapita populations had a clear understanding of locally available timber resources. This paper also details a world-first attempt at radiocarbon wiggle-match dating a Lapita-age wooden artefact.","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"88 1","pages":"268 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41875462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wunjunga midden: Late Holocene change, site preservation and open midden sites on the Central Queensland Coast","authors":"B. Barker, L. Lamb","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2022.2130250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2022.2130250","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents excavation results from a midden site on the central Queensland coast at Wunjunga, dating to 1,500 BP, and examines the implications for Late Holocene coastal occupation and open site preservation. We propose that although there is clear evidence for environmental factors such as cyclonic events having heavily impacted open midden sites in the region in the Late Holocene, the apparent proliferation of post-500 BP sites in this part of the central coast is not solely a signature of a post-cyclonic landscape but may also be linked to broader socio-cultural changes.","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"88 1","pages":"318 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45882092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity","authors":"J. Flexner","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2022.2133280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2022.2133280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"88 1","pages":"328 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42414168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bursting the bubble: Reflecting on 50 years of maritime archaeological research in Queensland","authors":"Maddy McAllister, Toni Massey, S. Price","doi":"10.1080/03122417.2022.2126546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2022.2126546","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over the last 50 years, significant maritime archaeological research, including the excavation of shipwrecks and underwater cultural heritage projects (mainly site inspections and monitoring activities) occurred in Queensland. There is no doubt that there are exceptional historic ship and aircraft sites along the Queensland coastline. Queensland has been the home of an active Maritime Archaeology Department at the Queensland Museum, one of the most successful active avocational groups (the Maritime Archaeology Association of Queensland), and a decade-long university program at James Cook University. However, it seems that after the large-scale excavations of HMS “Pandora” (sunk in 1791), maritime archaeological research, educational outreach, public interest, and eventually, professional positions, dwindled. This paper reviews the past 50 years of shipwreck research, highlighting where and when approaches failed before discussing the future and what lies ahead for maritime archaeological research in Queensland.","PeriodicalId":8648,"journal":{"name":"Australian Archaeology","volume":"88 1","pages":"299 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45680157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}