Ian Lilley
Biographic Data
| ID | 169107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Lilley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lilley |
| SIGNATURE | LILLEY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8795-0794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 359 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Heritage and the Question of Belonging: Archaeological and Anthropological perspectives
This book explores the analytical and practical value of the notion of "rooted cosmopolitanism" for the field of cultural heritage. Many concepts of present-day heritage discourses - such as World Heritage, local heritage practices, or indigenous heritage - tend to elide the complex interplay between the local and the global - entanglements that are investigated as "glocalisation" in Globalisation Studies. However, no human group ever creates mor…
International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (Icahm) (Cultural Heritage Management)
Translation and Indigenization
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (Ippa)
Who Benefits? World Heritage and Indigenous People
This paper provides the context for a continuing research project on the potential benefits of World Heritage Listing for Indigenous people. The benefits of World Heritage listing are regarded as obvious by advocates of the system, but this view is not shared by many Indigenous communities. This paper provides an assessment of the issues that create conflict between the World Heritage system and Indigenous people. A review of academic and policy …
Indigenous Archaeological Heritage in Australia: Definition and Management of Sites
Archaeology and World Heritage in Papua New Guinea
A decade ago, Herman Mandui asked ‘who will take responsibility for management of the Papua New Guinea’s cultural heritage?’ At a time when the nation is contemplating additions to its World Heritage portfolio, Herman’s question remains as urgent as ever. PNG currently has a single World Heritage property, the Kuk archaeological site near Mount Hagen. The nation is struggling to protect Kuk’s World Heritage values. Possible additions to PNG’s Wor…
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization
Because so much of how we read the past is conditioned by ideas and descriptions that grew out of that past, globalization thinking potentially provides us with fresh opportunities to re-examine history through new lenses and discover detail and trends previously obscured. However, globalization has itself succumbed to similar tendencies. Indeed, part of the diculty in understanding globalization lies in the way the term has been captured by vest…
Australia and New Guinea, Archaeology of
The fusion of law and ethics in cultural heritage management: The 21st century confronts archaeology
Archaeologists around the world face complex ethical dilemmas that defy easy solutions. Ethics and law entwine, yet jurisprudence endures as the global praxis for guidance and result. Global legal norms articulate ‘legal rights’ and obligations while codes of professional conduct articulate ‘ethical rights’ and obligations. This article underscores how a rights discourse has shaped the 20th century discipline and practice of archaeology across th…
Transformations, transactions and technologies: New directions in Pacific heritage
[Extract] Exciting things are happening in the heritage sphere in the Pacific, as anthropologists, archaeologists and museum, heritage and other specialists collaborate with Pacific people in both heritage practice and the analytical assessment of events and trends encompassed by that broad term. It was in this atmosphere that several of us decided to contribute to the growing body of literature with a sample of innovative contemporary research t…
Pacific Island Heritage: Archaeology, Identity and Community - Liston, Clark and Alexander (eds)
Beyond the Equator (Principles): A Forum on Community Benefit Sharing in Relation to Major Land Alteration Projects and Associated Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Held at the Meeting…
Beyond the Equator (Principles): A Forum on Community Benefit Sharing in Relation to Major Land Alteration Projects and Associated Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage Held at the Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, 5 April 2013 - Volume 20 Issue 4
Strangers and Brothers?: Heritage, Human Rights, and Cosmopolitan Archaeology in Oceania
An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking of research agendas. While cosmopolitan archaeologies must be pr…
Cosmopolitan Archaeologies
An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking of research agendas. While cosmopolitan archaeologies must be pr…
Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands
Apocalypse now (and avoid the rush): Human dimensions of climate change in the Indo‐Pacific
This essay draws attention to a set of related alternatives to conventional archaeological approaches to climate change and cultural transformation. It canvasses concepts drawn from the ‘new ecology’, the study of societal vulnerability and from ‘political ecology’. The suggestion is that archaeologists focus on change as a continuous variable vulnerability to change as a ‘socio‐natural’ phenomenon resting on the robustness and resilience of rela…
Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond the Black Atlantic
Reflections on Ethics at Stanford
After Captain Cook: The Archaeology of the Recent Indigenous Past in Australia (review)
Type X Pottery, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Petrography and Possible Micronesian Relationships
Type X is one of four Post-Lapita pottery styles reported from Huon Peninsula and the Siassi Islands of Papua New Guinea. Previous petrographic work was inconclusive about its likely area of origin but indicated a possible Huon Peninsula source. Renewed analysis of a larger sample supports this conclusion and confirms the use of grog temper. This kind of temper is otherwise not recorded in the New Guinea region, and its use in the production of T…
Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization
Archaeologists in settler societies need to find theoretically well-founded ways of understanding the sociopolitical milieux in which they work if they are to deal sensibly and sensitively with the colonizers as well as the colonized in their communities. This article explores one avenue that the author has found helpful in a number of contexts. He advances the proposition that, with certain qualifications, the social conditions of settler nation…
Backfill
So near and yet so far: Reflections on archaeology in Australia and Papua New Guinea, intensification and culture contact
The use of the word 'Sahul' in the title of this book indicates that it will focus on the similarities, as well as the differences, between Australia and New Guinea. Because these are now two islands, and separate political entities, they are usually studied by different people, from different perspectives and using different methodologies... But for at least 80% of the time during which people have occupied the area, Australia and New Guinea wer…
Too good to be true? Post-Lapita scenarios for language and archaeology in West New Britain-North New Guinea
Cosmopolitan Archaeologies
An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking of research agendas. While cosmopolitan archaeologies must be pr…
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization
Because so much of how we read the past is conditioned by ideas and descriptions that grew out of that past, globalization thinking potentially provides us with fresh opportunities to re-examine history through new lenses and discover detail and trends previously obscured. However, globalization has itself succumbed to similar tendencies. Indeed, part of the diculty in understanding globalization lies in the way the term has been captured by vest…
Archaeology, diaspora and decolonization
Archaeologists in settler societies need to find theoretically well-founded ways of understanding the sociopolitical milieux in which they work if they are to deal sensibly and sensitively with the colonizers as well as the colonized in their communities. This article explores one avenue that the author has found helpful in a number of contexts. He advances the proposition that, with certain qualifications, the social conditions of settler nation…
Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago
The Lapita questionThe prehistory of the western Pacific has, for the last 30 years, been dominated by the problem of the origins of the present Polynesian and Melanesian cultures (Terrell 1988). In 1961 Golson drew attention to the distribution of highly decorated Lapita pottery, now known to date from between 3500 BP and 2000 BP, which crossed the present-day division between Melanesia and Polynesia. Furthermore, sites with Lapita pottery repre…
Prehistoric Exchange Across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea
Excavation at the new Brisbane Airport site (LB): (C69): evidence for early mid-Holocene coastal occupation in Moreton Bay, SE Queensland
In 1980, during excavation of a floodway connected with the construction of the New Brisbane Airport, stone artefacts were observed within the sediments by Mr. Bill Ward, CSIRO Soils Division. His alerting of the state authorities led to further investigations by one of the authors (JH). Such interest was sparked by the fact that, on geomorphic grounds, the site promised an antiquity of at least 4000 years BP. Subsequent test excavation (by JH) i…
Radiocarbon Dates from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Mort Creek Site Complex, Curtis Coast: Site Report
This paper reports the results of excavations conducted at the Mort Creek Site Complex, located in the Rodds Peninsula Section of Eurimbula National Park on the southern Curtis Coast, Central Queensland. Cultural and natural marine shell deposits were excavated and analysed as part of an investigation of natural and cultural site formation processes in the area. Analyses (including foraminifera studies) demonstrate a complex site formation histor…
Late Holocene subsistence and settlement in subcoastal Southeast Queensland
Australian archaeologists have been examining the nature of east coast cultural systems for more than twenty years. Many of the studies carried out in that time focussed at least partly on the problem of coast-hinterland dichotomies in Aboriginal adaptive strategies. Despite the relatively long history of research, published opinion remains divided on the question as it concerns the three most intensively researched parts of the eastern seaboard.…
The Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast: An Overview
Since 1993 archaeological surveys and excavations have been undertaken on the southern Curtis Coast as the coastal component of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project. This paper briefly outlines the physical environment of the study region including geology, vegetation and fauna communities before presenting the preliminary results of archaeological surveys and excavations. These initial results suggest that the region has an extensive mi…
Eurimbula Site 1, Curtis Coast: Site Report
This site report presents an account of archaeological excavations undertaken at Eurimbula Site 1, a large open midden site complex located in Eurimbula National Park on the southern Curtis Coast, Central Queensland. Excavations yielded a cultural assemblage dominated by mud ark (Anadara trapezia) and commercial oyster (Saccostrea commercialis) and incorporating small quantities of stone artefacts, fish bone and charcoal. Densities of cultural ma…
The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: Some proposed directions and preliminary results of the archaeological program
The paper outlines the working hypotheses guiding exploratory archaeological surveys on the coast between Bundaberg and Gladstone in south-central Queensland. It reports some early results and their possible implications. The surveys reported are part of a multi-stage project on the sandstone caves and rock shelters
Recent Research In Southwestern Western Australia: A Summary Of Initial Findings
The 38,000 year old Upper Swan site in southwestern Western Australia contains the most ancient evidence for human occupation found in southern Australia (Pearce and Barbetto 1981). Devils Lair, a site between Capes Leeuwin and Naturaliste in the extreme southwest, has deposits of similar antiquity Dortch 1984). However, despite valuable work at this and a handful of other sites between the capes, an area I will also call the far southwest, littl…
The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: Preliminary Results of Archaeological Research, 1993-1997
This paper summarizes the background to, and preliminary results of, archaeological investigations conducted between 1993 and 1997 under the auspices of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project. The implications of these results are briefly considered before research in progress and future research directions are outlined
Roof Fall Cave, Cania Gorge: Site Report
This site report presents a description of archaeological investigations undertaken at Roof Fall Cave, an occupied rockshelter and art site located at Cania Gorge, eastern Central Queensland. Excavation yielded quantities of stone artefacts, bone and charcoal, along with some freshwater mussel shell and ochre with an occupational sequence spanning from up to 18,576 cal BP to the historical period. Roof Fall Cave is currently the oldest dated site…
Chiefs without chiefdoms? Comments on prehistoric sociopolitical organization in western Melanesia
More on Radiocarbon Dates from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Four radiocarbon age determinations from two archaeological sites in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea are reported
Apocalypse now (and avoid the rush): Human dimensions of climate change in the Indo‐Pacific
This essay draws attention to a set of related alternatives to conventional archaeological approaches to climate change and cultural transformation. It canvasses concepts drawn from the ‘new ecology’, the study of societal vulnerability and from ‘political ecology’. The suggestion is that archaeologists focus on change as a continuous variable vulnerability to change as a ‘socio‐natural’ phenomenon resting on the robustness and resilience of rela…
Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation at Cania Gorge, Central Queensland: Preliminary Results of Fieldwork
Recent excavations at Cania Gorge in central Queensland have revealed evidence for Aboriginal occupation dating from the late Pleistocene through to the historical period. This paper briefly describes the general aims of the project as well as several of the key sites excavated, and reports initial radiocarbon determinations. These excavations were conducted as part of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project, which is being undertaken in co…
The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: First radiocarbon determinations
The radiocarbon determinations from the 1995 test excavations in two shell midden complexes on the central Queensland coast are reported. The research is conducted as part of the Aboriginal cultural heritage study undertaken in collaboration with the Gurang Land Council and the results have confirmed Aboriginal occupation of the coast in this region before 3000 BP
Pre-European coastal settlement and use of the sea: A view from Queensland
We draw attention to important omissions in the chronology of Australian coastal occupation presented by Nicholson and Cane (1994) in their recent review of the subject. In the Queensland section of their review, Nicholson and Cane (1994:110-11) state that coastal settlement is confined to the last 2000 years in the Moreton Bay area, and to the last 1500 years for the remainder of the Queensland coast, with the exception of Princess Charlotte Bay…
An Experiment in Statistical Location Analysis in Sub-Coastal Southeast Queensland
This paper describes an experiment in the use of statistical location analysis which, as far as I can determine, is the first work of its sort in Australia. It shows that statistical locational analysis can be used to good effect without overtaxing the sort of data which many archaeologists in this country have to work with. Â
The Archaeology of Cania Gorge: An Overview
This paper presents a general overview of archaeological investigations in the Cania Gorge region, located on the western margin of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project study area. It includes a physical description of the region and a brief outline of the cultural setting, before presenting a summary of archaeological investigations undertaken in the area
Big Foot Art Site, Cania Gorge: Site Report
This site report presents a description of archaeological investigations undertaken at Big Foot Art Site, a large rockshelter and art site located at Cania Gorge, eastern Central Queensland. Field and laboratory methods are outlined and results presented. Excavation revealed evidence for occupation spanning from before 7,700 cal BP to at least 300 cal BP, with a significant peak in stone artefact discard between c.4,200-3,200 cal BP. Results are …
Type X Pottery, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea: Petrography and Possible Micronesian Relationships
Type X is one of four Post-Lapita pottery styles reported from Huon Peninsula and the Siassi Islands of Papua New Guinea. Previous petrographic work was inconclusive about its likely area of origin but indicated a possible Huon Peninsula source. Renewed analysis of a larger sample supports this conclusion and confirms the use of grog temper. This kind of temper is otherwise not recorded in the New Guinea region, and its use in the production of T…
Radiocarbon Dates from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
More on Radiocarbon Dates from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Four radiocarbon age determinations from two archaeological sites in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea are reported
Ranking, Resource and Exchange: Aspects of the Archaeology of Early European Society , edited by A.C. Renfrew and S. Shennan
Late Holocene subsistence and settlement in subcoastal Southeast Queensland
Australian archaeologists have been examining the nature of east coast cultural systems for more than twenty years. Many of the studies carried out in that time focussed at least partly on the problem of coast-hinterland dichotomies in Aboriginal adaptive strategies. Despite the relatively long history of research, published opinion remains divided on the question as it concerns the three most intensively researched parts of the eastern seaboard.…
An Experiment in Statistical Location Analysis in Sub-Coastal Southeast Queensland
This paper describes an experiment in the use of statistical location analysis which, as far as I can determine, is the first work of its sort in Australia. It shows that statistical locational analysis can be used to good effect without overtaxing the sort of data which many archaeologists in this country have to work with. Â
Chiefs without chiefdoms? Comments on prehistoric sociopolitical organization in western Melanesia
An open site survey of Koolburra Plateau, Cape York Peninsula
This paper describes the execution and results of an open site survey in the Koolburra Plateau of Cape York Peninsula (for a detail of study area see Flood 1986, this volume). The objective of the survey was to assess the nature and distribution of surface sites on and in the immediate vicinity of the plateau. It aimed to do this through an intensive examination of selected parts of the Echidna Creek catchment
Archaeological investigation in the Vitiaz Strait region, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Excavation at the new Brisbane Airport site (LB): (C69): evidence for early mid-Holocene coastal occupation in Moreton Bay, SE Queensland
In 1980, during excavation of a floodway connected with the construction of the New Brisbane Airport, stone artefacts were observed within the sediments by Mr. Bill Ward, CSIRO Soils Division. His alerting of the state authorities led to further investigations by one of the authors (JH). Such interest was sparked by the fact that, on geomorphic grounds, the site promised an antiquity of at least 4000 years BP. Subsequent test excavation (by JH) i…
Type X: Description and discussion of a prehistoric ceramic from northeastern Papua New Guinea
Prehistoric Exchange Across the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea
Lapita sites of the Bismarck Archipelago
The Lapita questionThe prehistory of the western Pacific has, for the last 30 years, been dominated by the problem of the origins of the present Polynesian and Melanesian cultures (Terrell 1988). In 1961 Golson drew attention to the distribution of highly decorated Lapita pottery, now known to date from between 3500 BP and 2000 BP, which crossed the present-day division between Melanesia and Polynesia. Furthermore, sites with Lapita pottery repre…
[Diversity, Continuity and Change in the History of the Bismarck Archipelago] Lapita and Post-Lapita Developments in the Vitiaz Straits-West New Britain Area
Recent Research In Southwestern Western Australia: A Summary Of Initial Findings
The 38,000 year old Upper Swan site in southwestern Western Australia contains the most ancient evidence for human occupation found in southern Australia (Pearce and Barbetto 1981). Devils Lair, a site between Capes Leeuwin and Naturaliste in the extreme southwest, has deposits of similar antiquity Dortch 1984). However, despite valuable work at this and a handful of other sites between the capes, an area I will also call the far southwest, littl…
Australian Archaeologists In The Pacific, 1974-1994: A Guide For Non-Specialists
The story of Australian' archaeologists in the Pacific over the last 20 years is one set almost entirely in Papua New Guinea (PNG). There are imponant exceptions, of course. Matthew Spriggs's work in Vanuatu springs immediately to mind, as do studies such as those by David Roe in the Solomons, Dirk Spennem·ann in Tonga and Peter Bellwood in the Cook Islands, Marquesas and elsewhere. By and large, though, the rest of us have concentrated our atten…
The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: Some proposed directions and preliminary results of the archaeological program
The paper outlines the working hypotheses guiding exploratory archaeological surveys on the coast between Bundaberg and Gladstone in south-central Queensland. It reports some early results and their possible implications. The surveys reported are part of a multi-stage project on the sandstone caves and rock shelters
Pre-European coastal settlement and use of the sea: A view from Queensland
We draw attention to important omissions in the chronology of Australian coastal occupation presented by Nicholson and Cane (1994) in their recent review of the subject. In the Queensland section of their review, Nicholson and Cane (1994:110-11) state that coastal settlement is confined to the last 2000 years in the Moreton Bay area, and to the last 1500 years for the remainder of the Queensland coast, with the exception of Princess Charlotte Bay…
Prehistory to politics
The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: First radiocarbon determinations
The radiocarbon determinations from the 1995 test excavations in two shell midden complexes on the central Queensland coast are reported. The research is conducted as part of the Aboriginal cultural heritage study undertaken in collaboration with the Gurang Land Council and the results have confirmed Aboriginal occupation of the coast in this region before 3000 BP
The Road Forward? Alternative Assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students at the Tertiary Level
This report looked at the important, but contentious issue of alternative assessment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people studying at the tertiary level. Presented below, its findings give expression to the views of 47 respondents, chosen from Indigenous communities, Commonwealth and State Government departments, the tertiary education sector and business
Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation at Cania Gorge, Central Queensland: Preliminary Results of Fieldwork
Recent excavations at Cania Gorge in central Queensland have revealed evidence for Aboriginal occupation dating from the late Pleistocene through to the historical period. This paper briefly describes the general aims of the project as well as several of the key sites excavated, and reports initial radiocarbon determinations. These excavations were conducted as part of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project, which is being undertaken in co…
Too good to be true? Post-Lapita scenarios for language and archaeology in West New Britain-North New Guinea
The Archaeology of Cania Gorge: An Overview
This paper presents a general overview of archaeological investigations in the Cania Gorge region, located on the western margin of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project study area. It includes a physical description of the region and a brief outline of the cultural setting, before presenting a summary of archaeological investigations undertaken in the area
The Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project: Preliminary Results of Archaeological Research, 1993-1997
This paper summarizes the background to, and preliminary results of, archaeological investigations conducted between 1993 and 1997 under the auspices of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project. The implications of these results are briefly considered before research in progress and future research directions are outlined
Eurimbula Site 1, Curtis Coast: Site Report
This site report presents an account of archaeological excavations undertaken at Eurimbula Site 1, a large open midden site complex located in Eurimbula National Park on the southern Curtis Coast, Central Queensland. Excavations yielded a cultural assemblage dominated by mud ark (Anadara trapezia) and commercial oyster (Saccostrea commercialis) and incorporating small quantities of stone artefacts, fish bone and charcoal. Densities of cultural ma…
Archaeology (43 works) · History (38 works) · Geography (32 works) · History (26 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (24 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 works)