Lynley Wallis
Biographic Data
| ID | 102936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynley Wallis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynley |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallis |
| SIGNATURE | WALLIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9324-8069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 289 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
An assemblage of resin-mounted macropod incisors from Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
This paper reports on the first identification of macropod incisor ornaments from a non-burial context in northeast Australia. While ethnographic museum collections demonstrate the vibrant traditional organic material culture of the Indigenous peoples of Australia, the vagaries of preservation mean such items are only rarely recovered archaeologically. The Late Holocene Windmill Way site in southeast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, is one such r…
Familiar, not foreign: Depictions of watercraft in the rock art of mainland southeast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Archaeologists have a longstanding interest in cross-cultural engagements between Indigenous people and Others, especially in settler colonial nations. In Australia, much archaeological attention has been directed to how such engagements are reflected in rock art, particularly in respect of colonial period seafaring activities and non-Indigenous watercraft technologies. Scholars have written extensively about depictions of foreign watercraft in A…
From sandstone to screen: A culturally responsive arts-based approach to digital literacy in a remote Indigenous community in Australia
Indigenous students in remote areas face challenges accessing technology and digital literacy, hindering their educational and career opportunities. However, a Queensland Cape York Peninsula community addresses this challenge by leveraging cultural heritage and innovative citizen science to cultivate the next generation of digital leaders. The region is home to some of the world’s most impressive rock art galleries, documenting the traditions of …
Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia
An exceptional assemblage of archaeological plant fibres from Windmill Way, southeast Cape York Peninsula
Under the Shade of a Coolabah Tree: A Second Cache of Tulas From the Boulia District, Western Queensland
This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius. Consisting entirely of 60 large tula adzes with varying degrees of retouch on the margins, none of the artefacts show evidence of hafting or use. Three sets of artefacts conjoin, showing …
Karribolknahnan kunred la kundulk: Contemporary Culturally Modified Trees in Mirarr Country, Northern Territory
In Mirarr Kunred (Country) in the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory, Australia, a particular form of scarred, culturally modified tree (CMT) is actively being created as Bininj (Aboriginal people) harvest bark to be used as art canvases (dolobbo). Cultural heritage surveys carried out over the past 5 years in and near the township of Jabiru have recorded numerous dolobbo trees, along with a smaller number of older CMTs containing …
Coercion and Pacification on the Frontier: Glass Beads from Nineteenth-Century Native Mounted Police Sites in Queensland, Australia
The Native Mounted Police were a paramilitary organization that operated across Queensland, Australia during the nineteenth century. Archaeologically they are represented by numerous camp sites occupied for varying durations, from just a few weeks to several decades. Living in these camps were White officers and the Aboriginal troopers serving under them, accompanied by the female partners of the troopers and sometimes of the officer(s), and thei…
Shell artefacts in Cape York Peninsula: A literature review
As Australia’s largest peninsula, Cape York Peninsula in Queensland presents abundant opportunities to understand the complex relationship between people and coastal environments. Beyond merely being food refuse, shells demonstrate considerable cultural significance as both practical tools and symbolic objects. Yet studies of shell artefacts across Cape York Peninsula have been limited. The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi (ABM) Project, a Traditional Owner…
Archaeological Insights into Asymmetrical Warfare on the Queensland Frontier
Historiographic debate in Australia over whether or not the asymmetrical conflicts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the colonial period can be characterized as “war” remains unresolved, largely because most such events did not involve the traditional military. In this regard the situation in Queensland merits special attention, since much of the conflict in that colony from 1848 onward was conducted by a particular government para…
Categorising Catfish, Jewfish and Eel Motifs in Laura (Quinkan) Rock Art, Cape York Peninsula, Australia
Fish motifs in Aboriginal rock art of the Laura area (Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia) include a heterogenous group that has been imprecisely classified by rock art researchers. By analysing motif attributes, style and contexts (including natural populations), we characterised three categories: fork-tailed catfish (Neoarius paucus), eel-tailed catfish (Neosilurus spp.) and eel (Anguilla reinhardti). We label the categories with the loc…
A preliminary study of culturally modified sugarbag trees in the Laura Sandstone Basin, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Erythrophleum spp. (Cooktown ironwood) is an endemic north Australian tree that is a key cultural resource. In Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Traditional Owners value, use, care for and manage the trees in culturally appropriate ways. Members of the Agayrr Bamangay Milbi (ABM) Project team have recorded hundreds of culturally modified Cooktown ironwood trees (CMTs) across southeast CYP, stretching from Jowalbinna in the south to Cape Melville in the …
When the Foreign Becomes Familiar: The Glass Bead Assemblage from Madjedbebe, Northern Australia
By investigating the materiality of colonial encounters, specifically the consumption of introduced commodities by Indigenous peoples, archaeologists can explore questions concerning value, agency, consumer choice and localization. This has the significant capacity to broaden understandings of intercultural encounters and challenge colonial narratives. Glass beads represent one of the earliest foreign material culture introductions to the Indigen…
Codesigned Archaeological Research in the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia
In much of the Western world, collaborative research undertaken by settler archaeologists readily lends itself, at least in part, to a continuation of the colonial project. Yet, against this backdrop, Australia's First Nations’ peoples continue to work with researchers and to drive systemic change in research practice. Community-engaged archaeology, defined here as codeveloped studies of ancestral places (following Schaepe et al. 2017), is direct…
The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police
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 ob…
The Discipline of Dress: Uniform Buttons and Accoutrements of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland, Australia
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) camps 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 detac…
Fishhooks, fishing spears, and weaving: The bone technology of Madjedbebe, Northern Australia
Archeological assemblages of osseous material culture are rare in the Australian context, especially in the north where environmental conditions are not usually conducive to organic preservation. Nevertheless, more than 230 bone artifacts were recovered from the site of Madjedbebe, located in the Mirarr clan estate of the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Of these artifacts, 199 have been identified to tool type. Here, we present…
Glass beads in a Dillybag: A cached assemblage from a rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Weapons of the frontier wars: Firearms and ammunition of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland
Firearms were critical to the activities of the Queensland Native Mounted Police, a frontier force tasked with suppressing Aboriginal resistance in the colony of Queensland, Australia, between 1848 and 1929. Wider colonial processes meant that arming the Native Mounted Police was never straightforward, despite a dedicated program to standardise and update police weaponry from 1864 onwards. In this paper we use historical, archaeological and museu…
The distribution, chronology and significance of late Holocene aged stone-based structures on Pitta Pitta Country, western Queensland
There is considerable discourse around the timing of Australia's interior colonisation and whether environmental or technological impacts pushed people into occupying more arid environments. However, the general scarcity of rockshelter sites and the limited amount of research undertaken to date in central western Queensland has meant this region has only been peripherally considered in such debates. It is well recognised that, by the time Europea…
Oral Tradition, History, and Archaeohistory of Indigenous Australia
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. T…
Demonstrating the potential of amberat middens for understanding late Quaternary palaeoenvironments in the Central Pilbara, western Australia
Lithic technologies from a stone hut and arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country Queensland, and the detection of social learning in archaeology
Lithic assemblages associated with Indigenous Australian built structures are underexplored. The Hilary Creek Site 1 (HCS1) complex, western Queensland, comprising at least 16 stone-based hut structures and multiple stone arrangements, also contains a surface assemblage of thousands of flaked stone artefacts. Analysis of a sample of this assemblage provides novel insights into the technology and role of flaked stone artefacts at this site, reveal…
A Comprehensive Online Database about the Native Mounted Police and Frontier Conflict in Queensland
In recent years the publication of online maps documenting frontier conflict between Indigenous peoples and interlopers in Australia has generated great public interest. These new resources are vital memorials to frontier conflict; however, we note they are still relatively “flat” resources, much more akin to visualized spreadsheets with a spatial element. Another new resource, the Frontier Conflict and the Native Mounted Police Database is a com…
Fatal FrontierTemporal and Spatial Considerations of the Native Mounted Police and Colonial Violence Across Queensland
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 f…
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation
Northern Australian Offshore Island Use During The Holocene: The Archaeology of Vanderlin Island, Sir Edward Pellew Group, Gulf of Carpentaria
This paper presents an overview of archaeological investigations in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. It is argued that Vanderlin Island, like the majority of Australia’s offshore islands, attests to a lacuna in human habitation for several thousand years after the marine transgression and consequent insulation c.6700 years ago. With the imminent threat of inundation, people appear to have ret…
Integrating geoarchaeology and magnetic susceptibility at three shell mounds: A pilot study from Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
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…
Looking for the proverbial needle? The archaeology of Australian colonial frontier massacres
Amongst other issues, the ‘History Wars’ raise the question as to whether or not sites of conflict on the Australian colonial frontier will be preserved in the archaeological record. We explore this question through a consideration of what the expected nature of any such evidence might be, based on general and specific historical accounts and an understanding of site formation processes. Although limited success has been achieved to date in locat…
A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: Exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in Northern Australia
Holocene grinding stones at Madjedbebe reveal the processing of starchy plant taxa and animal tissue
Trialing Geophysical Techniques in the Identification of Open Indigenous Sites in Australia: A Case Study from Inland Northwest Queensland
The use of geophysical techniques as an aid to archaeological investigations has become common-place, however these methods have only occasionally been applied in Indigenous Australian archaeology. This is despite recognition (and recommendations) since the 1970s that such approaches have the potential to yield positive results in such contexts (e.g. Connah et al. 1976; Stanley 1983; Stanley and Green 1976). Australian archaeologists have perhaps…
Disrupting paradise: Has Australian archaeology lost its way
The opening keynote session at the 2019 Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) annual conference on the Gold Coast was designed to allow reflection on how archaeology has developed in the 50 years since John Mulvaney (1969 Mulvaney, D.J. 1969 Prehistory of Australia (1st ed.) Ringwood: Penguin Books. [Google Scholar]) published his landmark Prehistory of Australia (Clarkson 2019 Clarkson, C. 2019 Australian lithics 50 years on. Unpublished k…
Cultural conflict in text and materiality: The impact of words and lead on the northwest Queensland colonial frontier, Australia
The “Frontier Wars” in Australia were a series of conflicts carried out at different times and places by various military and civilian actors between 1788 and c1938. One of the principal agents in this violence in the colony of Queensland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the paramilitary Native Mounted Police (NMP), who were tasked with protecting settlers from Aboriginal resistance. This paper examines written and oral accounts of f…
The Queensland Native Police and Strategies of Recruitment on the Queensland Frontier, 1849–1901
Although historians have provided substantial insights into the structure, development and activities of the Queensland Native Mounted Police, they have rarely focused on the complex and sensitive issue of Aboriginal recruitment. A careful reading of historical records, however, identifies several methods, including coercion, intimidation, kidnapping and inducement, as well as “voluntary” enlistment. It is difficult to identify Aboriginal agency …
Late Holocene Changes in Shellfishing Behaviors From the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Dramatic changes in shellfishing behaviors occur across northern Australia during the late Holocene, marked most conspicuously by the cessation of large shell mound construction in some areas, and the reorganization of shellfishing behaviors towards more intensive production in the last 1,000 years. Excavations reveal rapid and widespread changes within coastal sites, an increasing diversification in overall subsistence resources, and patterns of…
Developing baseline data to understand environmental change: A geochemical study of archaeological otoliths from the Coorong, South Australia
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
The archaeological record of Lower Laura (aka Boralga) Native Mounted Police camp, a longstanding base for Queensland’s frontier war in Cape York Peninsula, includes a diverse assemblage of culturally modified Erythophleum chlorastychys (Cooktown ironwood) trees. Analysis of cultural scar attributes and tool marks – which were found to be variously associated with Aboriginal stone tools, tomahawks of different types, and long handled axes – revea…
Using Soil Magnetic Properties to Determine the Onset of Pleistocene Human Settlement at Gledswood Shelter 1, Northern Australia
In regions that lack built structures or stratified open archaeological sites, such as precolonial Australia, rockshelters are a major source of detailed information for understanding the nature and timing of human occupation. A key concern is that the proposed ages for the earliest archaeological sites are based on luminescence dating of sediments, rather than directly of cultural materials, leaving the association between the sediments and evid…
Fishhooks, fishing spears, and weaving: The bone technology of Madjedbebe, Northern Australia
Archeological assemblages of osseous material culture are rare in the Australian context, especially in the north where environmental conditions are not usually conducive to organic preservation. Nevertheless, more than 230 bone artifacts were recovered from the site of Madjedbebe, located in the Mirarr clan estate of the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Of these artifacts, 199 have been identified to tool type. Here, we present…
Flaked Glass Artifacts from Nineteenth–Century Native Mounted Police Camps in Queensland, Australia
Huts and stone arrangements at Hilary Creek, western Queensland: Recent fieldwork at an Australian Aboriginal site complex
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 pres…
Robust local vegetation records from dense archaeological shell matrixes: A palynological analysis of the Thundiy shell deposit, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
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
Geophysical prospection for late Holocene burials in coastal environments: Possibilities and problems from a pilot study in South Australia
Geophysical techniques have been widely employed for the noninvasive location of burial sites in archaeological and forensic investigations. This approach has met with varying degrees of success, depending on factors such as equipment choice, survey methodology, burial type, and geological setting. This paper reports the results of a multitechnique geophysical survey carried out immediately prior to the salvage excavation of two Indigenous burial…
Nervous nation: Fear, conflict and narratives of fortified domestic architecture on the Queensland frontier
The frontier of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Australia was a place in which colonists routinely lived in fear of retaliation by the Aboriginal peoples whose traditional lands they had forcibly dispossessed. It has been suggested this concern manifested itself in domestic architecture, in both active and passive defensive strategies designed to afford protection against various forms of potential attack. Yet there remains a lack of substantive…
Secret and safe: The underlife of concealed objects from the Royal Derwent Hospital, New Norfolk, Tasmania
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…
Broadcasting, listening and the mysteries of public engagement: An investigation of the AAA online audience
For several years now the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) has been expanding its online presence through the Association’s website, Facebook page and Twitter account. In order to ascertain whether these activities are worth the investment of time and energy required to pursue and maintain them, an audience survey was undertaken. Coupled with interrogation of Facebook and Twitter user data, the survey results were assessed to understan…
Gledswood Shelter 1: Initial Radiocarbon Dates from a Pleistocene Aged Rockshelter Site in Northwest Queensland
In 2002, a research programme was initiated in collaboration with the Woolgar Valley Aboriginal Corporation to investigate the long-term chronology and nature of regional occupation of the northwest savannah corridor, beyond local refugia. Subsequent surveys identified more than 100 sites among the sandstone escarpments in the foothills of the Gregory Ranges (Wallis et al. 2004). However, owing to the specific site formation processes operating l…
Perspectives on ecological approaches in Australian archaeology
In this postmodern World the evocation of ecological approaches in archaeology conjures up visions of banal environmental determinism and passive human actors receiving their cues from terrifying landscapes. And yet anything but the most superficial critique of the myriad approaches that have been labelled ecology easily illustrates that social and cognitive factors may be given voice at both the individual and group level. As Pardoe (1994:182) h…
Environmental history of northwest Australia based on phytolith analysis at Carpenter's Gap 1
Recent archaeological surveys on Middle Park Station, northwest Queensland
This preliminary report describes the initial results from an archaeological survey conducted in the foothills of the Gregory Ranges on Middle Park Station in inland northwest Queensland. Nearly 130 Aboriginal sites were located during the survey, which was carried out as a collaborative project between an archaeologist (LW) and members of the Woolgar Valley Aboriginal Corporation (DS and HS). Sites were dominated by rockshelters containing stenc…
Global Deserts in Perspective
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Deserts: A Modicum of Facts and Figures Desert People: Some Issues Outline of this Book References
Pleistocene Settlement of Deserts from an Australian Perspective
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction: Deserts and Desert Colonization Arrival of Humans in Australia Initial Human Penetration of the Australian Deserts Subsequent Use of Desert Areas of Australia Australian Desert Colonization in a Global Perspective Conclusion References
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Late Holocene human remains from northwest Queensland, Australia: Archaeology and Palaeopathology
A human burial of late Holocene age was recently excavated from inland northwest Queensland and studied prior to reburial by the Indigenous community. Bones from the lower thoracic region to the feet were recovered. The person had been interred in a crouched position, resting on their lower legs (shins) and wrapped in paperbark. Similar burial techniques have been described in the region's ethnographic literature, and this site represents the fir…
Northern Australian Offshore Island Use During The Holocene: The Archaeology of Vanderlin Island, Sir Edward Pellew Group, Gulf of Carpentaria
This paper presents an overview of archaeological investigations in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. It is argued that Vanderlin Island, like the majority of Australia’s offshore islands, attests to a lacuna in human habitation for several thousand years after the marine transgression and consequent insulation c.6700 years ago. With the imminent threat of inundation, people appear to have ret…
Trialing Geophysical Techniques in the Identification of Open Indigenous Sites in Australia: A Case Study from Inland Northwest Queensland
The use of geophysical techniques as an aid to archaeological investigations has become common-place, however these methods have only occasionally been applied in Indigenous Australian archaeology. This is despite recognition (and recommendations) since the 1970s that such approaches have the potential to yield positive results in such contexts (e.g. Connah et al. 1976; Stanley 1983; Stanley and Green 1976). Australian archaeologists have perhaps…
Reconstructing late Holocene palaeoenvironments in Bangladesh: Phytolith analysis of archaeological soils from Somapura Mahavihara site in the Paharpur area, Badalgacchi Upazila, Naogaon District, Ban…
Locating places for repatriated burial: A case study from Ngarrindjeriruwe, South Australia
In this ingenious co-operative case study, archaeologists and Indigenous peoples use geophysical survey to scan suitable places for the reburial of repatriated human remains. The process is also building a procedure for the low impact and respectful research of early Indigenous burial locations
Gledswood Shelter 1: Initial Radiocarbon Dates from a Pleistocene Aged Rockshelter Site in Northwest Queensland
In 2002, a research programme was initiated in collaboration with the Woolgar Valley Aboriginal Corporation to investigate the long-term chronology and nature of regional occupation of the northwest savannah corridor, beyond local refugia. Subsequent surveys identified more than 100 sites among the sandstone escarpments in the foothills of the Gregory Ranges (Wallis et al. 2004). However, owing to the specific site formation processes operating l…
Understanding Old People's burial places: A case study from Ngarrindjeri ruwe, South Australia
Geophysical prospection for late Holocene burials in coastal environments: Possibilities and problems from a pilot study in South Australia
Geophysical techniques have been widely employed for the noninvasive location of burial sites in archaeological and forensic investigations. This approach has met with varying degrees of success, depending on factors such as equipment choice, survey methodology, burial type, and geological setting. This paper reports the results of a multitechnique geophysical survey carried out immediately prior to the salvage excavation of two Indigenous burial…
Developing baseline data to understand environmental change: A geochemical study of archaeological otoliths from the Coorong, South Australia
Style, Space And Social Interaction: An Archaeological Investigation of Rock Art in Inland North Queensland, Australia
The rock art of the north Queensland highlands has previously been argued to be the northern limit of the Central Queensland Province, based on a similarity of techniques and motifs. In this paper we test this hypothesis through an archaeological study of the rock art of Middle Park Station in the Gregory Range. Motifs from 88 rock art sites were analysed, revealing a predominance of stencilling of a limited range of motifs, with rare paintings o…
Looking for the proverbial needle? The archaeology of Australian colonial frontier massacres
Amongst other issues, the ‘History Wars’ raise the question as to whether or not sites of conflict on the Australian colonial frontier will be preserved in the archaeological record. We explore this question through a consideration of what the expected nature of any such evidence might be, based on general and specific historical accounts and an understanding of site formation processes. Although limited success has been achieved to date in locat…
The Point of Spinifex: Aboriginal uses of spinifex grasses in Australia
For thousands of years spinifex grasses were utilized by Indigenous Australians, most commonly for the production of resin that was then used as a hafting adhesive. While varying levels of knowledge about this particular use are retained in Indigenous communities, museum collections serve as a valuable repository of little known information about a multitude of other uses of spinifex including ornamental, medicinal, structural and ceremonial func…
The Opportunities And Challenges Of Graduate Level Teaching in cultural heritage management
In recent years there has been greater examination and discussion of teaching and learning in archaeology, and exploration of how best to reconcile the sometimes competing requirements of students, industry, teachers and university administrators. A key response by the academy in Australia has been the emergence of graduate level programmes. Drawing on the experiences of staff, students and industry partners of the Flinders University Archaeology…
Radiocarbon dates for coastal midden sites at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia
This paper presents 29 radiocarbon dates from eight surface concentrations of shell and 10 test-pits across four shell middens at Long Point in the Coorong, South Australia. Results indicate that occupation of these sites was confined to the late Holocene period, post-2500 cal. BP. With the exception of one midden, which appears not to have been used after 500–300 cal. BP, all other sites suggest continued use until the recent past. This pattern …
Just passing through: Archaeological investigations of a late Holocene open site in the Mitchell Grass Downs, inland northwest Queensland
Comparatively little is known about the archaeology of the Mitchell Grass Downs region of inland Queensland. This paper reports the results of investigations of an open site complex therein, comprising numerous hearths, a human burial, middens, stone arrangements and a stone artefact assemblage. Analysis reveals the stone artefact assemblage is a palimpsest, representing multiple events in the late Holocene compressed into a single non-stratified…
Late Holocene Changes in Shellfishing Behaviors From the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Dramatic changes in shellfishing behaviors occur across northern Australia during the late Holocene, marked most conspicuously by the cessation of large shell mound construction in some areas, and the reorganization of shellfishing behaviors towards more intensive production in the last 1,000 years. Excavations reveal rapid and widespread changes within coastal sites, an increasing diversification in overall subsistence resources, and patterns of…
Integrating geoarchaeology and magnetic susceptibility at three shell mounds: A pilot study from Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
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…
Environmental context for late Holocene human occupation of the South Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia
Archaeology (66 works) · Geography (53 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (39 works) · History (34 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (33 works) · Geology (26 works) · History (25 works) · Ecology (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 works)