Judith Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 119916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4451-8947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 518 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1911 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland
Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics Bioregion (WTB) in far North Queensland, suggests a strong relationship between natural and cultural firing regi…
Soil application of high-lignin fermentation byproduct to increase the sustainability of liquid biofuel production from crop residues
When digestates from anaerobic digestion of crop residues are added to soil, a considerable body of information indicates that soil organic carbon (SOC) levels are comparable to those when crop residues are left in the field. This occurs although the amount of digestate added to soil is diminished by digestion and implies that digestion increases the proportion of carbon inputs stabilized as SOC. Here we examine the likelihood and implications of…
Holocene grinding stones at Madjedbebe reveal the processing of starchy plant taxa and animal tissue
Adult education centenaries
We invited John Field, a distinguished member of our Editorial Advisory Board, to reflect on the meaning and significance of adult education centenaries in Britain and Germany.In Germany and Britai
New Data from an Open Neolithic Site in Eastern Indonesia
Here we report the results of excavation and analyses of an open site on Pulau Ay, a small (ca. 4 km 2 ) limestone island located in the Banda Islands, central Maluku, Indonesia. This report provides results of excavations at PA1 and other Pulau Ay sites conducted in 2007 and 2009. These sites reveal patterns of changes in marine resource exploitation, pottery, and use of domestic animals, particularly between initial occupation of the site at ap…
The scale of seed grinding at Lake Mungo
Smith's Comment on our functional analysis of grinding stone fragments from Pleistocene contexts at Lake Mungo (Fullagar et al. 2015) draws attention to the low frequency of implements, uncertainties about functional interpretations and archaeological implications. He argues that Pleistocene seed exploitation at Lake Mungo was limited and probably not indicative of a seed grinding economy. We suggest that it is premature to speculate about the sc…
Evidence for Pleistocene seed grinding at Lake Mungo, south‐eastern Australia
Grinding stones and fragments have often been found in archaeological sites at Lake Mungo, south‐western New South Wales, and their function has mostly been inferred on the basis of grindstone morphology. Of particular interest has been the antiquity of grass seed grinding, which is usually associated with deeply grooved, large sandstone dishes. Previous studies of grinding stones from the region have found no compelling evidence for seed grindin…
Seekers
Megafauna—Late Pleistocene faunal extinctions in Australia and the possibilities of a human involvement
An Anti-Urban Education? Work Camps and Ideals of the Land in Interwar Britain
This article examines the role of work camp movements in developing rural critiques of urban living in interwar Britain. A variety of work camp movements flourished in Europe during the interwar years, often partly as a reaction against urbanisation, and this paper explores the ways in which three such movements developed the work camp as a means of countering the socialising influences of city life. Yet while all of the interwar British work cam…
Aridity, faunal adaptations and Australian Late Pleistocene extinctions
The faunal extinctions of the Late Pleistocene saw the disappearance of a suite of giant marsupials, birds and reptiles from the Australian landscape. Attempts to explain these extinctions have invoked human activities and climate change as one or other of the primary drivers. Recently, the identification of some faunal species having adaptations to aridity has been forwarded as evidence that climate change could not have had a major role in the …
Recent studies in Australian palaeoecology and zooarchaeology
The collection of papers presented in this issue of Environmental Archaeology arose from the sessions ‘Australian Studies in Taphonomy and Archaeofaunas: A Session in Honour of the Late Su Solomon’ at the 2008 annual Australian Archaeological Association Conference held at Noosa, Queensland, 3 to 6 December; and ‘Palaeoecology and its Role in Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions’ at the 2009 annual Australian Archaeological Associa…
Looking for the archaeological signature in Australian Megafaunal extinctions
Modern emu ( Dromaius novaehollandiae ) butchery, economic utility and analogues for the Australian archaeological record
Australia's largest flightless bird, the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), has been an important prey animal for Indigenous people for millennia, especially in arid/semi-arid areas where, along with large kangaroos, they can provide high economic returns from single kills. Understanding modern prey selection, butchering patterns and the relative nutritional value of the different body portions in these animals has important implications for interpr…
Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago
New Guinea's Ancient Colonies Isolated by water, Australia and New Guinea were some of the last major parts of the world colonized by modern humans. Summerhayes et al. (p. 78 ; see the Perspective by Gosden ) describe an archaeological site in the highlands of New Guinea that sheds light on this migration. The record extends back to nearly 50,000 years ago and thus represents one of the earliest known records. Nuts and yams were widely consumed, …
A functional analysis of grinding stones from an early holocene site at Donghulin, North China
Overdone overkill – the archaeological perspective on Tasmanian megafaunal extinctions
What did grinding stones grind? New light on Early Neolithic subsistence economy in the Middle Yellow River Valley, China
Grinding stones have provided a convenient proxy for the arrival of agriculture in Neolithic China. Not any more. Thanks to high-precision analyses of use-wear and starch residue, the authors show that early Neolithic people were mainly using these stones to process acorns. This defines a new stage in the long transition of food production from hunter-gatherer to farmer
Deadly weapons
A recently excavated skeleton dated to 3677 cal BP provides an extraordinary opportunity to determine the function of its associated backed artefacts. Seventeen stone artefacts were recovered during salvage excavation of an adult male Aboriginal skeleton from a sand dune in Narrabeen, a coastal suburb of Sydney. The skeletal and artefact evidence indicate death by spearing. Three artefacts were refitted, and, of the 14 near complete artifacts, 12…
Starch residues on grinding stones in private collections
Morahs are incised grinding stones from the tropical rainforests of Far North Queensland. They are made from grey slate, are roughly ovate to rectangular in shape, and have distinctive incised parallel grooves running transversely across the body of the stone. The region in which they are found is also known for the processing of toxic starchy plants by Aborigines. The process involves a relatively complex processing schedule, including cooking, …
Referees
Obituaries
Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea
Archaeobotany is the study of plant remains from archaeological contexts. Despite Australasian research being at the forefront of several methodological innovations over the last three decades, archaebotany is now a relatively peripheral concern to most archaeological projects in Australia and New Guinea. In this paper, many practicing archaeobotanists working in these regions argue for a more central role for archaeobotany in standard archaeolog…
Investigating human and megafauna co-occurrence in Australian prehistory
Just giving
Just giving: why philanthropy is failing democracy and how it can do better." International Journal of Lifelong Education, 39(5-6), pp. 622–623
Pleistocene seed-grinding implements from the Australian arid zone
Grinding-stones as a technology are seen as a key element in the artefactual transformations of the latest Pleistocene - both for themselves and the foods which were ground on them. In Australia, as in other regions, their age and status is also material to what (if any) kind of a broad-spectrum revolution in foraging accompanied them
New Pleistocene ages for backed artefact technology in Australia
Two recently excavated sites adjacent to the Gregory River at Riversleigh in northwestern Queensland have yielded backed artefacts from Pleistocene sediments. One backed artefact is from an 80 cm deep, dense shell midden near the Old Lilydale Homestead (OLH) and radiocarbon determinations on associated freshwater mussel Alathyria cf. pertexta returned Late Pleistocene ages. Two backed artefacts from the limestone rockshelter GRE8 were also recove…
Lifelong education
While the goal of lifelong learning commands a broad policy consensus, it has been widely criticized by adults educationists for its conservatism. This paper explores the origins of the concept in the 1960s and 1970s, and compares key themes with the dominant approaches of the recent period. While there was a turning point during the 1990s, its chief feature was that lifelong learning was less a slogan than a tool for the reform and modernization…
Evidence for Pleistocene seed grinding at Lake Mungo, south‐eastern Australia
Grinding stones and fragments have often been found in archaeological sites at Lake Mungo, south‐western New South Wales, and their function has mostly been inferred on the basis of grindstone morphology. Of particular interest has been the antiquity of grass seed grinding, which is usually associated with deeply grooved, large sandstone dishes. Previous studies of grinding stones from the region have found no compelling evidence for seed grindin…
Late Pleistocene Megafauna and Archaeology from Cuddie Springs, South-eastern Australia
The Cuddie Springs site in south-eastern Australia provides the first evidence of an unequivocal association of megafauna with humans for this continent. Cuddie Springs has been known as a fossil megafauna locality for over a century, but its archaeological record has only recently been identified. Cuddie Springs is an open site, with the fossil deposits preserved in a claypan on the floor of an ancient ephemeral lake. Investigations revealed a s…
A functional analysis of grinding stones from an early holocene site at Donghulin, North China
Investigating human and megafauna co-occurrence in Australian prehistory
Overdone overkill – the archaeological perspective on Tasmanian megafaunal extinctions
Social capital, human capital and the learning society
(1998). Social capital, human capital and the learning society. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 226-235
What did grinding stones grind? New light on Early Neolithic subsistence economy in the Middle Yellow River Valley, China
Grinding stones have provided a convenient proxy for the arrival of agriculture in Neolithic China. Not any more. Thanks to high-precision analyses of use-wear and starch residue, the authors show that early Neolithic people were mainly using these stones to process acorns. This defines a new stage in the long transition of food production from hunter-gatherer to farmer
Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea
Archaeobotany is the study of plant remains from archaeological contexts. Despite Australasian research being at the forefront of several methodological innovations over the last three decades, archaebotany is now a relatively peripheral concern to most archaeological projects in Australia and New Guinea. In this paper, many practicing archaeobotanists working in these regions argue for a more central role for archaeobotany in standard archaeolog…
Trampling Through The Pleistocene
After 15 years of continuing investigation, analysis and publication of the sedimentary sequence at Cuddie Springs, the site and its contents continue to draw considerable attention from those investigating the timing and cause of the extinction of the megafauna. The archaeological record commences at Cuddie Springs around 36ka and overlaps with a record of a handful of megafauna species for up to 10,000 years. The main issue for those supporti…
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico
Interindustry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap
Using data from the March 1988 Current Population Survey, the authors find that the wages of female workers differ significantly by industry, even when the analysis controls for workers' productivity-related characteristics. Although these interindustry wage differentials are at least as large as men's and are highly correlated with them as well, there are statistically significant differences between the two. Of the overall gender wage gap (the …
Modern emu ( Dromaius novaehollandiae ) butchery, economic utility and analogues for the Australian archaeological record
Australia's largest flightless bird, the emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), has been an important prey animal for Indigenous people for millennia, especially in arid/semi-arid areas where, along with large kangaroos, they can provide high economic returns from single kills. Understanding modern prey selection, butchering patterns and the relative nutritional value of the different body portions in these animals has important implications for interpr…
Holocene grinding stones at Madjedbebe reveal the processing of starchy plant taxa and animal tissue
A large area archaeological excavation at Cuddie Springs
Large area excavation at Cuddie Springs has revealed that the Pleistocene sediments have remained undisturbed. This eliminates the possibility that stone artefacts found in association with megafauna may have been introduced by disturbance from higher levels and indicates an overlap of megafauna with humans of at least 10,000 years
Looking for the archaeological signature in Australian Megafaunal extinctions
Variation in the taphonomic effect of scavengers in semi‐arid Australia linked to rainfall and the El Niño Southern Oscillation
Scavenging is one of the primary taphonomic processes shaping the final composition of fossil faunal assemblages. The taphonomic effect of scavengers is variable and must be understood in the context of the causes of that variation. In this study, we investigated relationships between the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), variable rainfall and scavenging on 20–40 kg mammal carcasses in semi‐arid New South Wales over four years. Following perio…
Coming back’ Aborigines and archaeologists at Cuddie Springs
Australian archaeologists wishing to undertake research into Aboriginal history in New South Wales are required to consult with local Aboriginal communities and obtain permission to excavate before permits are granted by the government body. We present a case study of Aboriginal community involvement in a major archaeological research project at Cuddie Springs in western NSW. The discussion is based on the experiences of the project director and …
Stable isotope and protein analyses of Cuddie Springs Genyornis
Stable isotopes and proteins in Genyornis remains from Cuddie Springs are too depleted for dating, but this does not imply the bones are older than surrounding sediments
The scale of seed grinding at Lake Mungo
Smith's Comment on our functional analysis of grinding stone fragments from Pleistocene contexts at Lake Mungo (Fullagar et al. 2015) draws attention to the low frequency of implements, uncertainties about functional interpretations and archaeological implications. He argues that Pleistocene seed exploitation at Lake Mungo was limited and probably not indicative of a seed grinding economy. We suggest that it is premature to speculate about the sc…
Aridity, faunal adaptations and Australian Late Pleistocene extinctions
The faunal extinctions of the Late Pleistocene saw the disappearance of a suite of giant marsupials, birds and reptiles from the Australian landscape. Attempts to explain these extinctions have invoked human activities and climate change as one or other of the primary drivers. Recently, the identification of some faunal species having adaptations to aridity has been forwarded as evidence that climate change could not have had a major role in the …
Just giving
Just giving: why philanthropy is failing democracy and how it can do better." International Journal of Lifelong Education, 39(5-6), pp. 622–623
Civic engagement and lifelong learning
The concept of social capital commands considerable attention right across the social sciences and among the policy community. In recent years, it has also generated a lively debate among the research community in lifelong learning. There is some emerging evidence that social capital is associated with learning in adult life, but the nature of that relationship remains very unclear. The paper reports on findings from a recent social attitudes sur…
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico
Mecap-an analysis program for microwave engineering courses
There exists a need, in undergraduate microwave engineering courses, for a simple analysis program similar to ECAP, but which is applicable to distributed circuits. Such a program has been developed at the University of Maine, Orono to analyze a network of cascaded two-ports with the possibility of one feedback path. This configuration, while not the most general, will encompass nearly all networks encountered in an undergraduate course. It is al…
A University-Industry Approach to Continuing Education for Engineers
A cooperative university-industry approach to satisfying continuing education needs for engineers is presented. The effort involves the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maine at Orono, and Fairchild Semiconductor, South Portland, Maine. The program which results is a solution to a troublesome geographical problem since the industry is separated from the center of science and engineering education for the state by some 150 miles…
The Instructor as a Teaching Machine
A teaching method is presented which has been used successfully in both undergraduate and graduate courses. It is based on using printed class notes as programmed learning material. The material is used in class with the instructor taking the role of a teaching machine. Courses taught using the method are listed and further applications suggested. An example is presented from material developed for an electromagnetic fields course
Size and Shape in English Field -Nomenclature
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English Field Names
Private Schools in Portsmouth and Southampton, 1850‐1870
(1978). PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN PORTSMOUTH AND SOUTHAMPTON, 1850‐1870. Journal of Educational Administration and History: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 8-14
When the Riot Act was Read
‘When the Riot Act was Read’: a pub mural of the Battle of Southsea, 1874. Get access John Field John Field Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1980, Pages 152–163, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/10.1.152 Published: 01 October 1980
Introductory Uart Experiments for a Microcomputer Course
A course is briefly described which deals with microprocessor interfacing. One portion of the course covers programmable LSI interface chips. Introductory experiments are described for one of these chips, the Motorola 6850 asynchronous communications interface adapter (ACIA). The experiments allow the student to, in effect, "single-step" through the operation of the ACIA by inputting clock pulses asynchronously. The values of important signals, i…
Place-Names of Greater London
Human Life And Activities Reflected In English Field-Names
Three or four categories of English field-names refer closely to human beings and their activities. Some allude to ownership and include a personal name (e.g., Forman's Close or Old Mary's Field), a description (e.g., Heiress's Land or Grammum's Croft) or a rank or profession (e.g., Lord's Acre, Bishop's Close, or Bakerland). Others honor national heroes (e.g., Wellington or Nelson) or commemorate great men who favored the name-giver's political …
Education, Training, and Economic Performance, 1944 to 1990
The funding and organization of adult continuing education research in Britain
Adult continuing education research has acquired growing policy significance in a number of European countries. We provide an analytical overview of current adult continuing education research in the UK, where organizational structures, funding sources, topics and disciplinary parameters are all currently in a process of change. The policy significance of the field is exemplified by a major research council programme on The Learning Society; inte…
Interindustry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap
Using data from the March 1988 Current Population Survey, the authors find that the wages of female workers differ significantly by industry, even when the analysis controls for workers' productivity-related characteristics. Although these interindustry wage differentials are at least as large as men's and are highly correlated with them as well, there are statistically significant differences between the two. Of the overall gender wage gap (the …
Towards the Europeanisation of Continuing Education
Judging research quality in post-compulsory education and training
Pleistocene seed-grinding implements from the Australian arid zone
Grinding-stones as a technology are seen as a key element in the artefactual transformations of the latest Pleistocene - both for themselves and the foods which were ground on them. In Australia, as in other regions, their age and status is also material to what (if any) kind of a broad-spectrum revolution in foraging accompanied them
Social capital, human capital and the learning society
(1998). Social capital, human capital and the learning society. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 226-235
Investigating the Learning Society
Schooling, Networks and the Labour Market
School attainment is generally believed to be correlated positively with participation in adult learning. The paper explores evidence from Northern Ireland that suggests an inverse relationship is also possible under certain circumstances. In Northern Ireland high school attainment co‐exists with low participation in adult learning. The paper considers evidence suggesting that the existence of strong social networks, shared norms and value, and a…
Late Pleistocene Megafauna and Archaeology from Cuddie Springs, South-eastern Australia
The Cuddie Springs site in south-eastern Australia provides the first evidence of an unequivocal association of megafauna with humans for this continent. Cuddie Springs has been known as a fossil megafauna locality for over a century, but its archaeological record has only recently been identified. Cuddie Springs is an open site, with the fossil deposits preserved in a claypan on the floor of an ancient ephemeral lake. Investigations revealed a s…
Fighting the Corsetless Evil
During the nineteenth century virtually all free-born women in the United States wore corsets. Yet from mid-century onward, the purpose and meaning of the corset generated heated debate. In the early twentieth century, these debates intensified as women began to reject Victorian restrictions upon their mobility. Corset defenders gained a powerful new ally in 1907, the well-organized Corset Manufacturers Association. Arguments supporting corset us…
Coming back’ Aborigines and archaeologists at Cuddie Springs
Australian archaeologists wishing to undertake research into Aboriginal history in New South Wales are required to consult with local Aboriginal communities and obtain permission to excavate before permits are granted by the government body. We present a case study of Aboriginal community involvement in a major archaeological research project at Cuddie Springs in western NSW. The discussion is based on the experiences of the project director and …
Lifelong education
While the goal of lifelong learning commands a broad policy consensus, it has been widely criticized by adults educationists for its conservatism. This paper explores the origins of the concept in the 1960s and 1970s, and compares key themes with the dominant approaches of the recent period. While there was a turning point during the 1990s, its chief feature was that lifelong learning was less a slogan than a tool for the reform and modernization…
A large area archaeological excavation at Cuddie Springs
Large area excavation at Cuddie Springs has revealed that the Pleistocene sediments have remained undisturbed. This eliminates the possibility that stone artefacts found in association with megafauna may have been introduced by disturbance from higher levels and indicates an overlap of megafauna with humans of at least 10,000 years
Geography (26 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (26 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Geology (15 works) · History (14 works) · Biology (12 works) · Pleistocene (12 works)