Mike Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Museum of Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6177-8217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 945 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 93 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Detethering economic subjectification from intercultural identity
Purpose This paper aims to critically examine how Japan’s higher education internationalization policies shape intercultural identities. Drawing on a discursive framework, it interrogates the extent to which policy promotes neoliberal conceptions of transnationalism through language policy, institutional branding and credentialism. Design/methodology/approach By analyzing policy documents, rhetoric and reform initiatives, the authors trace the di…
Musician, heal thyself
Past Aboriginal Populations and Demographic Change Using Radiocarbon Data and Time-Series Analysis
The use of radiocarbon data as a proxy for past human demography has become common in many parts of the world with increasingly sophisticated techniques developed in the last decade. Australian archaeologists have been at the forefront of this research. Using this technique, the authors show that at a continent scale Aboriginal population remained low—in the tens of thousands—throughout the Pleistocene, followed by a stepwise growth in the last 1…
PaleoMaps
Geomorphological tools for mapping natural hazards
Geomorphological mapping in urban areas
Reorganising foraging during the Late Holocene
Increasing populations in Central Australia after 1,500 cal BP led to the development of more closely spaced foraging territories, with a consequent shift towards more intensive exploitation of bush foods. We suggest that such pressure would also lead to concomitant shifts in the use of peripheral areas within individual foraging estates. A small archaeological excavation at NEP23, on Watarrka Plateau in Central Australia, provides a glimpse of t…
Holocene grinding stones at Madjedbebe reveal the processing of starchy plant taxa and animal tissue
The lost oasis
This paper describes a previously unknown mikiri well in the Simpson dune field. This site was abandoned about 500-600 years ago and does not feature in ethnographic records for this region. We argue that its abandonment was most likely due to failure of the well caused by a fall in the local watertable. The Simpson Desert is one of the major sand-ridge deserts of the world, but current views of the chronology of human use of this vast dune field…
Robert Edwards and the history of Australian rock art research
Working in the 1960s, Robert (Bob) Edwards was a key figure in the development of research into Australian rock art. He was one of the first rock art scholars to attempt a quantitative and comparative survey of rock engravings in south and central Australia. In this paper, we examine the development of his work on rock engravings, the intellectual context for his research, and the problems he addressed. Edwards’ research took place during a decad…
How do we distinguish termite stone lines from artefact horizons? A challenge for geoarchaeology in tropical Australia
Can we distinguish stone lines created by termite bioturbation from genuine artefact horizons? This is a challenge for field archaeology and geoarchaeology in northern Australia, where termites are abundant. We review published data to (a) present a model of the evolution of stone lines and (b) develop guidelines for recognizing these bioturbation products in archaeological contexts. In case studies, we examine Madjedbebe and Nauwalabila, two sit…
Frontier mystery
On the eastern edge of the Simpson dune field, an unusual find of 40-60 mourning caps in a single cluster, prompts us to raise issues about its interpretation. This region is known for violence along the colonial frontier, and this kopi site is only one to two days walk from the site of a known massacre of a ceremonial gathering of people at Kaliduwarry waterhole in about 1878. There is no direct evidence showing that this site coincides with col…
The historiography of kardimarkara
The idea that the kardimarkara tradition in the Lake Eyre region is a distant cultural memory of the remote past, of a time when the desert once teemed with life, was propelled into the public domain by JW Gregory in his 1906 book, The Dead Heart of Australia. This paper examines the historiography of the kardimarkara narratives, arguing that such use of Indigenous tradition needs to be subject to the same canons of scholarship and critical analy…
The EU, the US and the crisis of contemporary multilateralism
The article begins by exploring the crisis of contemporary multilateralism in terms of three core elements: institutions, norms and negotiation. It then argues that in relation to these elements, the EU and the US occupy ambiguous positions and roles, and that these ambiguities, exacerbated by internal tensions and crises as well as external forces, pervade their changing roles in the multilateral system. The third part of the paper assesses the …
Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship
Regional, multi-actor environmental collaborations bring together diverse parties to achieve environmental protection and stewardship outcomes. Involving a range of participants helps involve alternative forms of knowledge, expertise, and perspectives; it may also present greater challenges in reaching agreements, particularly when both Indigenous and non-Indigenous parties are involved. The authors conduct a cross-case study of 39 regional partn…
Puntutjarpa rockshelter revisited
Puntutjarpa Rockshelter was the first archaeological site excavated in the Australian desert. Dug between 1967 and 1970, the archaeological sequence was originally interpreted as a continuous record spanning the last 10,000 years BP. With a new series of radiocarbon and OSL dates we show that Puntutjarpa primarily contains a mid-Holocene deposit with a veneer of last millennium material and a thin underlay of terminal Pleistocene evidence. We sho…
The use of summed‐probability plots of radiocarbon data in archaeology
Attenbrow and Hiscock (2015) are critical of the use of “dates as data” to infer prehistoric population levels. Their critique needs some amendment, as methods and assumptions have evolved since Rick (1987) first proposed this approach
Boko Haram
An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world. Yet it remains a mysterious - almost unknowable - organisation. ̃ rough exhaustive on-the-ground reporting, Mike Smith takes readers inside the con° ict and provides the ÿ rst in-depth account of the violence and unrest. He traces Boko Haram from its beginnings as a small Islamist sect in Nigeria's re…
Boko Haram
Die islamistische Sekte Boko Haram, die 2014 durch die Entführung von über 200 christlichen Schülerinnen Schlagzeilen machte, kontrolliert in Nigeria und Kamerun ein riesiges "Kalifat", dem bereits Tausende Christen und Muslime zum Opfer gefallen sind. Der amerikanische Journalist Mike Smith hat die geheimnisvolle Gruppierung mehr als drei Jahre lang in Nigeria beobachtet und lässt den Leser durch zahlreiche Augenzeugenberichte hautnah erleben, w…
A Reflection on First Nations in their Boreal Homelands in Ontario
This article provides some thoughts on the impacts of the conservation vs development paradigm on First Nations, as it has played out in the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement and the Far North Act in northern Ontario, Canada. The author contends that the dichotomy between conservation and development does not fit the First Nations' worldview in which First Nations assume responsibility for land stewardship. The author points to the need for non-go…
Mapping a millstone
Despite continuing interest in whether plant residues and microwear can give an archaeological 'signature' for the grinding of grain, few studies have looked at what is actually present on ethnographic seed-grinders. In this paper, we map the distribution of use-polish and residues on a classic Central Australian millstone. We begin by setting out an explanatory 'cradle–to–grave' model of the dynamics of millstones to assist our interpretations. …
What sort of seed grinding at Pleistocene Lake Mungo
Fullagar et al. () use microwear and residues to argue for seed grinding in the late Pleistocene at Lake Mungo. The ten Zanci/Arumpo grindstone fragments in their study represent only three grindstones when conjoined. Grindstones appear to be rare in these assemblages and are small, hand‐sized implements. Traces of starch are low, of uncertain taphonomy and not from known economic taxa. The use‐polish may indicate grinding of seeds, but these gri…
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II)
AustArch
It has been 20 years since Smith and Sharp (1993) undertook the first comprehensive review of archaeological ages across Australia and used them as a proxy for exploring human activity in the Pleistocene. It was a pioneering paper, building on the preliminary application of these techniques in Australia by Bird and Frankel (1991), and with several similar studies to follow (e.g. Holdaway and Porch 1996; Lourandos and David 1998; Ulm and Hall 1996…
Ground‐penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia
A GPR survey was carried out in advance of archaeological excavations at Madjedbebe (formerly known as Malakunanja II), a sandstone rock shelter in western Arnhem Land (Australia) containing numerous Aboriginal burials. GPR revealed subsurface patterning of rocks in the shelter deposits and archaeological excavation demonstrated that these were related to burials. Post‐excavation, GIS and statistical analysis further elucidated the relationship b…
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II)
The case for a resident human population in the Central Australian Ranges during full glacial aridity
The full glacial climate was marked by enhanced aridity, suggesting that there would be no human occupation of the interior of the continent at the glacial maximum. However, evidence from Puritjarra Rockshelter shows that the Central Australian Ranges continued to be occupied between 22,000 and 13,000 BP. The repeated use of Puritjarra, together with its location away from any natural corridor for travel into the region, indicates the presence of…
The antiquity of seedgrinding in arid Australia
The Public Governance of Collaborative Spaces
This article investigates the relationship between democratic practices and the design of institutions operating in collaborative spaces, those policy and spatial domains where multiple public, private and non-profit actors join together to shape, make and implement public policy. Partnerships are organizational manifestations of institutional design for collaboration. They offer flexibility and stakeholder engagement, but are loosely coupled to …
Desert Peoples
Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. • Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the cor…
Beyond the radiocarbon barrier in Australian prehistory
The team that has been dating early Australian sites by luminescence methods replies to Allen's (1994) view of the continent's human chronology, published in the June ANTIQUITY (68: 339-43). They argue the strength of the long chronology with their new optical dates
The Changing Provenance of Red Ochre at Puritjarra Rock Shelter, Central Australia
In this paper we apply geochemical sourcing methods to an assemblage of ochre from archaeological excavations at the Puritjarra rock shelter in western central Australia. Our work indicates that the red ochre in Late Pleistocene contexts at this rock shelter is from Karrku, a subterranean ochre mine still worked today by Walbiri people. Archaeological finds at Puritjarra indicate that exploitation of this source of high-grade red ochre had begun …
Optical Dating At Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory, Indicates Human Occupation Between 53,000 and 60,000 Years Ago
Optical Dating At Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory, Indicates Human Occupation Between 53,000 and 60,000 Years Ago." Australian Archaeology, 37(1), pp. 58–59
Stratigraphy and statistics at Malakunanja II
What happened at 1500—1000 cal. BP in Central Australia? Timing, impact and archaeological signatures
This paper reviews the late Holocene archaeology of Central Australia. The last 1500 years saw significant changes in the archaeological record in this part of the Australian arid zone, with shifts in settlement pattern, site histories, resource use, tool inventories and rock art. Much of the evidence points to regional population growth, beginning 1500—1000 cal. BP and coinciding with expansion of summer-rainfall grassland and more frequent pala…
Devon Downs Reconsidered
On Some Buckets and Cauldrons of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages
The purpose of this paper is to present five large prehistoric bronze vessels, from Wales, Ireland, and the north and south of England, found at various dates from the early nineteenth century to 1932, but published as yet imperfectly or not at all, and to consider, with reference to their affinities abroad, their significance for these islands’ Late Bronze and earliest Iron Ages. The starting-point for any such study must in general be the artic…
Vegetation history from archaeological charcoals in central Australia
Direct dating indicates a Mid‐Holocene Age for archaic rock engravings in arid Central Australia
Archaic rock engravings are found widely across the arid interior of Australia and are thought to represent an early pan‐continental tradition. A late Pleistocene age is assumed because of extensive weathering, but attempts to test this by direct dating have been unsuccessful. We use AMS 14 C dating of calcium oxalate skins covering archaic engravings at two rock shelter sites in Central Australia (Wanga East and Puritjarra), constrained by 14 C …
A morphological comparison of central Australian seedgrinding implements and Australian Pleistocene- Age grindstones
The morphology of grindstones used for seedgrinding in Central Australia is described.A comparison with grindstones of late Pleistocene age shows that these have few of the diagnostic features of seedgrinding implements.It is concluded that there is no positive evidence for the processing of seed foods as early as 15,000-18,000 yrs BP in Australia
Progrssive Regrimes, Partnerships and the Involvement of Local Communities
This paper examines the nature of community involvement in urban politics as it is played out through regeneration partnerships. At a theoretical level, it explores the potential for a community dimension to local governance, that is, a strategic influence for communities within local power structures. It is argued that the nature of involvement can be explicated by considering three concepts: power (as expressed by urban regime theory), particip…
Some Somerset hoards and their place in the Bronze Age of Southern Britain
Two articles published in recent years have drawn attention to distinctive bronzes which are found concentrated in Somerset. Sir Cyril Fox showed in 1941 that sickles cast with an elongated terminal knob for hafting, or pair of conical knobs, are in England entirely confined to the county; and in 1949 Mrs C. M. Piggott discussed types of bronze ornament also commonly found in Somerset, and often in association with such sickles, though distributi…
The EU, the US and the crisis of contemporary multilateralism
The article begins by exploring the crisis of contemporary multilateralism in terms of three core elements: institutions, norms and negotiation. It then argues that in relation to these elements, the EU and the US occupy ambiguous positions and roles, and that these ambiguities, exacerbated by internal tensions and crises as well as external forces, pervade their changing roles in the multilateral system. The third part of the paper assesses the …
Rock-Art and the History of Puritjarra Rock Shelter, Cleland Hills, Central Australia
Elaborate, religiously sanctioned relationships between people and place are one of the most distinctive features of Aboriginal Australia. In the Australian desert, rock paintings and engravings provide a tangible link to the totemic geography and allow us to examine both changes in the role of individual places and also the development of this system of relationships to land. In this paper we use rock-art to examine the changing history of Purit…
AustArch
It has been 20 years since Smith and Sharp (1993) undertook the first comprehensive review of archaeological ages across Australia and used them as a proxy for exploring human activity in the Pleistocene. It was a pioneering paper, building on the preliminary application of these techniques in Australia by Bird and Frankel (1991), and with several similar studies to follow (e.g. Holdaway and Porch 1996; Lourandos and David 1998; Ulm and Hall 1996…
Ground‐penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia
A GPR survey was carried out in advance of archaeological excavations at Madjedbebe (formerly known as Malakunanja II), a sandstone rock shelter in western Arnhem Land (Australia) containing numerous Aboriginal burials. GPR revealed subsurface patterning of rocks in the shelter deposits and archaeological excavation demonstrated that these were related to burials. Post‐excavation, GIS and statistical analysis further elucidated the relationship b…
Human—environment interactions in Australian drylands
Exploratory time-series analysis of radiocarbon data from archaeological contexts is used to reconstruct the population history of arid Australia, allowing this to be read in concert with records of climatic variability over the last 20 000 years. Probability distribution plots of 971 radiocarbon ages from 286 sites in five dryland regions (the arid west coast, Pilbara and Murchison, Nullarbor, arid interior and the southeastern arid zone) provid…
Biogeography, Human Ecology And Prehistory In The Sandridge Deserts
Until a few years ago it seemed possible that the arid interior of the continent was unoccupied prior to about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago (cf. Bowdler 1977; Horton 1981). Enough archaeological evidence has now accumulated to show that the major desert uplands and river systems were occupied during the late Pleistocene (Brown 1987; Lampert and Hughes 1988; Maynard 1980; Smith 1987; Smith et al. 1991) and the debate has moved on to questions about …
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Solving Problems in Social–Ecological Systems
Translating policies about sustainable development as a social process and sustainability outcomes into the real world of social-ecological systems involves several challenges. Hence, research policies advocate improved innovative problem-solving capacity. One approach is transdisciplinary research that integrates research disciplines, as well as researchers and practitioners. Drawing upon 14 experiences of problem-solving, we used group modeling…
A Comparative Study of Indian Student Leaders and Followers
Journal Article A Comparative Study of Indian Student Leaders and Followers Get access Mapheus Smith Mapheus Smith University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 1935, Pages 418–426, https://doi.org/10.2307/2570407 Published: 01 March 1935
The Mesolithic in the South of France
At the time when the type-sites of the Dordogne were being explored French archaeologists were equally active further south in their country. From caves and surface sites in the Mediterranean provinces local landowners, doctors and clergy were collecting material which not only matched most of the palaeolithic tool forms being distinguished in the south-west of France, but was later to provide Déchelette with many of his illustrations for the neo…
On Some Buckets and Cauldrons of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages
The purpose of this paper is to present five large prehistoric bronze vessels, from Wales, Ireland, and the north and south of England, found at various dates from the early nineteenth century to 1932, but published as yet imperfectly or not at all, and to consider, with reference to their affinities abroad, their significance for these islands’ Late Bronze and earliest Iron Ages. The starting-point for any such study must in general be the artic…
Some Somerset hoards and their place in the Bronze Age of Southern Britain
Two articles published in recent years have drawn attention to distinctive bronzes which are found concentrated in Somerset. Sir Cyril Fox showed in 1941 that sickles cast with an elongated terminal knob for hafting, or pair of conical knobs, are in England entirely confined to the county; and in 1949 Mrs C. M. Piggott discussed types of bronze ornament also commonly found in Somerset, and often in association with such sickles, though distributi…
The Sociology of Industry
Journal Article S. R. Parker, R. K. Brown, J. Child and M. A. Smith. The Sociology of Industry Get access The Sociology of Industry. By S. R. Parker, R. K. Brown, J. Child and M. A. Smith. (London: Allen and Unwin 1967. Pp. xii + 182. 25s. (cloth), 15s. (paper).) R. M. Blackburn R. M. Blackburn Clare College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 78, Issue 311, 1 September…
A case study of repertory grids used in vocational guidance
To the layman at least, the differentialist tradition of vocational guidance has the advantage of using objective tools such as tests, norms and profiles which act as a defence against the charge of subjective bias. Because the developmentalist aims to ‘understand’ the growth and development of an individual's vocational maturity, these traditional tools are of limited value. Repertory grids are a relatively new tool which seem to offer a solutio…
Computer‐produced vocational guidance reports
Vocational guidance has been a traditional area of interest for occupational psychologists for more than half a century. Its ‘technology’ has centred largely on the skills and experience of counsellors. This paper argues that the present technology is far from ideal and that computer‐based systems overcome many of the present shortcomings. It is also argued that, in the first instance, a simple batch processing system is the most realistic propos…
A Note on the Fauna From Devon Downs Shelter
This article details the examination of excavated material and faunal assemblages from the Devon Downs Shelter
The Evaluation of Curricular Priorities in Secondary Schools
There would not seem to be much disagreement, in public at least, between interested parties on the need for decision-making in complex institutions to be accompanied by the collection and more open dissemination of information. For example, government officers, elected representatives, teachers, parents, academics etc. all appear to favour some kind of evaluation of school activities. Beneath this apparent unanimity, however, there exists substa…
The Sociology of Industry
Devon Downs Reconsidered
Central Australia
During the year my fieldwork was concentrated south and southwest of Alice Springs. Four sites were excavated and while none is of any great antiquity they have produced some Interesting results. This paper reviews previous work in Central Australia and summarises the results of the 1982 field season
Health promotion for educators
A random sample of 117 teachers in three treatment schools and one control school participated in a health survey at the beginning and end of the spring semester. Teachers in the treatment schools participated in a 10-week health promotion program which emphasized exercise, stress management, and nutrition. Comparison of pre- and post-survey data indicated that teachers in the treatment schools increased their participation in vigorous exercise, …
A morphological comparison of central Australian seedgrinding implements and Australian Pleistocene- Age grindstones
The morphology of grindstones used for seedgrinding in Central Australia is described.A comparison with grindstones of late Pleistocene age shows that these have few of the diagnostic features of seedgrinding implements.It is concluded that there is no positive evidence for the processing of seed foods as early as 15,000-18,000 yrs BP in Australia
An Investigation of Possible Pleistocene Occupation at Lake Woods, Northern Territory
Artefacts including a horse-hoof core and flakes were found in 1967 ... associated with deposits of one of the ancient strand-lines of megalake Woods, suggesting the presence of man here during the high lake phase at least 25,000 years ago [Jones and Bowler 1980:15]
A revised chronology for Intirtekwerle (James Range East) Rockshelter, Central Australia
A revision to the chronology of Intirtekwerle (James Range East) rockshelter is proposed. A review of the depositional history is supported with fresh radiocarbon dates and it is concluded that major occupation at the site post-dates 1000 yrs BP
The antiquity of seedgrinding in arid Australia
Toward a Prehistory of the Hamersley Plateau, Northwest Australia , by Steve Brown
Some British data concerning the standard deviation of performance
Data from the British Knitwear Industry indicate that the standard deviation of performance in the UK is not significantly different to that found in the USA
The case for a resident human population in the Central Australian Ranges during full glacial aridity
The full glacial climate was marked by enhanced aridity, suggesting that there would be no human occupation of the interior of the continent at the glacial maximum. However, evidence from Puritjarra Rockshelter shows that the Central Australian Ranges continued to be occupied between 22,000 and 13,000 BP. The repeated use of Puritjarra, together with its location away from any natural corridor for travel into the region, indicates the presence of…
Thermoluminescence dating of a 50,000-year-old human occupation site in northern Australia
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Stratigraphy and statistics at Malakunanja II
Ideas about Illness
Biogeography, Human Ecology And Prehistory In The Sandridge Deserts
Until a few years ago it seemed possible that the arid interior of the continent was unoccupied prior to about 10,000 to 12,000 years ago (cf. Bowdler 1977; Horton 1981). Enough archaeological evidence has now accumulated to show that the major desert uplands and river systems were occupied during the late Pleistocene (Brown 1987; Lampert and Hughes 1988; Maynard 1980; Smith 1987; Smith et al. 1991) and the debate has moved on to questions about …
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