H Allen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3119 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H Allen |
| NOMBRES | H |
| APELLIDO | Allen |
| FIRMA | ALLEN H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8199-7364 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 486 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Continuity and discontinuity at the burial site of Roonka, Murray Gorge, South Australia
Identifying continuity and discontinuity in Holocene hunter-gatherer burial sites is often challenging. Roonka, is the largest excavated burial area in Australia. Despite preliminary analysis in the 1970–1980s chronology was challenging given the complex record of dune formation, intrusive burials, erosion and exposure. As part of collaboration with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, we have re-analysed the legacy data. We have c…
Legacy archaeology
Ngaut Ngaut (Devon Downs) and Tungawa (Fromm’s Landing) 2 and 6 are located in the Gorge Section of the Lower Murray River. They were excavated more than 60 years ago. Unusually, they preserved fauna over the 6000 or 7000 years of occupation. Assessing this record, it is concluded that Aboriginal agents were responsible for the middens in these rockshelters. Following this, Ngaut Ngaut and the Tungawa sites are compared in terms of their dating, …
Jack Golson, Roger Green and debates in New Zealand archaeology
Discussion in settler New Zealand concerning the Maori past has gone on for more than 150 years. To a large extent, archaeological approaches to this issue date only to the arrival of Jack Golson, a Cambridge-trained archaeologist, at the University of Auckland in 1954. He was joined shortly afterwards by Roger Green from Harvard. Debates between Golson and Green, bringing both European and American approaches to bear within a culture historical …
The bright archaeological light that was Angela Middleton
Archaeology of the recent
In 1985, Annie Clarke analysed botanical materials from Anbangbang 1 and Djuwarr 1, Kakadu National Park, western Arnhem Land. The 49 wooden artefacts from Anbangbang 1 and 20 wooden artefacts from the Djuwarr 1 site in Deaf Adder Gorge are now in the collections of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). This research involves a re-examination of these artefacts in terms of their morphological and functional attributes. The…
Monumental landscapes and the agency of the dead along the Murray River, Australia
Using a surviving record from AD 1856/7, we analyse the distribution of Aboriginal burial monuments along the Murray River, Australia recorded by Gerard Krefft and William Blandowski. Their detailed record enables us to recreate a necrogeography along the river. The regional perspective this provides demonstrates both broad traditions and clinal shifts that serve to identify zones of diversity and interaction. These zones of practice were recogni…
The First University Positions in Prehistoric Archaeology in New Zealand and Australia
University Departments employing prehistoric archaeologists have a long history in the United States and the United Kingdom, going back to the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Developments in prehistoric archaeology in Australia and New Zealand, however, began only in the 1950s, generally within Anthropology or History Departments. The initial appointments of prehistoric archaeologists in New Zealand and Australia…
Tangata Whenua
Bone Projectile Points in Prehistoric Australia
Innovation and change in northern Australian Aboriginal spear technologies
Unlike the majority of spears used by Australian Aboriginal people, reed spears were a lightweight form that made optimal use of spearthrower technology. In the Kimberleys, reed spears were mounted with small pressure‐flaked stone projectile points. Small projectile points occur in the archaeological record of both the Kimberleys and western Arnhem Land. Outside the Kimberleys, however, there is no record of how these were mounted and used. This …
Assessing Thomson’s Model of Seasonal Change
Donald Thomson’s 1939 discussion of the effects of seasonality on Australian Aboriginal hunter gatherer subsistence has been acknowledged as a classic. Its title “The Seasonal Factor in Human Culture” reflects his argument that seasonality should be considered a part of human culture when archaeological interpretations are being made. Thomson wrote this critique of culture historical classification at the invitation of Grahame Clark, arguing that…
Thomson’s Spears
Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of knowledge, his exemplary mentorship of generations of younger scholars and his generosity in facilitating the progress of others. The diverse collection produced by former students, current colleagues and long-term peers provides reflections on his…
A Retrospective Review of Richard A. Gould's Living Archaeology
Three components provide the structure for Richard Gould’s book Living Archaeology. The first component presents his original re search into the cultural ecology and behavior of Aboriginal groups living in the Australian desert. This section also includes informa tion on Gould’s excavations at Puntutjarpa rock shelter located in the Western Desert and the James Range East shelter in the Central Desert. The second component of the book presents Au…
In care of the Southern Ocean
Australasia
The archaeology of Mungo and the Willandra Lakes
Reviewing archaeological research in the Willandra Lakes area over the past forty years shows a number of methodological and conceptual problems. One of these is the use of ethnographic models of Aboriginal behaviour to organise the archaeological data. Such models privilege spatial over temporal relationships and minimise the extent of archaeological changes over time. Of research to date, it is Bowler's correlations of archaeological and hydrog…
Climate, people and faunal succession on Java, Indonesia
Footprints in the sand
Here is a paper of pivotal importance to all prehistorians attempting to reconstruct societies from assemblages of shells or stone artefacts in dispersed sites deposited over tens of thousands of years. The authors demonstrate the perilous connections between the distribution and content of sites, their geomorphic formation process and the models used to analyse them. In particular they warn against extrapolating the enticing evidence from Pleist…
Burkes Cave and Flaked Stone Assemblage Variability in Western New South Wales, Australia
In 1970, Harry Allen excavated a small section of creek terrace adjacent to Burkes Cave in the Scope Range of western New South Wales, revealing a stratified deposit dated by a single radiocarbon determination to c.2000 BP. An analysis of the stone artefact assemblage was never fully published. In this paper we present a description of the technological characteristics and composition of the stone artefact assemblage from this important site and …
Hunter-gatherer burials and the creation of persistent places in southeastern Australia
Kohika
Reviewed by: Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Māori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Harry Allen Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Māori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Geoffrey Irwin, ed. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004. The Kohika volume explores the archaeology of a Māori lake village situated on the flood plain of the Rangitaiki and Tarawera Rivers, not far from where th…
East of Wallace's Line
Reviewed by: East of Wallace's Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region Harry Allen East of Wallace's Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region. Edited by Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 16. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 2000. 380 pp. $76.00. ISBN 90-5809-319-0. This volume derives from a symposium held in 1997 with the majority of pap…
Why did Maori bury artefacts in the wetlands of pre-contact Aotearoa/New Zealand
A significant number of Maori waterlogged wooden artefacts have been found in New Zealand. Although some were associated with occupations, many were deliberately buried in wetlands. These wetland finds are a small subset of the full range of wooden artefacts found in occupation sites. Unfortunately, they tend to be found by chance during farm drainage; consequently archaeologists seldom see the finds in context. Only a small percentage of wetland…
Working Together? Maori and Archaeologists in Aotearoa/New Zealand Today
Where the crow flies backwards
The Darling River, the second largest in eastern Australia, flows through an area of semi-arid grassland. The presence of the river in this dry region created a highly favourable environment for Aboriginal inhabitants. Historical descriptions of these Aborigines, mostly written in the late nineteenth century, show the Darling River as the single most important human resource in the Darling Basin. These records provide some evidence that the Bagun…
Pleistocene human remains from Australia
A recently discovered Pleistocene archaeological site at Lake Mungo, western N.S.W., is announced and described. This was found within the core of a lunette sand dune at a level dated to between 25,000 and 32,000 years B.P., and is thus the oldest archaeological site so far discovered in Australia. The stratigraphy and chronology are described, and a palaeo‐environ‐mental reconstruction is made. Within the site were stone tools, hearths, faunal r…
The Bagundji of the darling basin
Until the 1880s the semi-arid Darling River Basin, in western New South Wales, was inhabited by Aborigines belonging to the Bagundji linguistic group. The Bagundji economy was primarily riverine in character based on the collection of aquatic foods and wild cereals. Seasonal variations in their subsistence activities can be related to seasonal variations in the productivity of their habitat. Despite a long period of association with wild cereals,…
Hunter-gatherer burials and the creation of persistent places in southeastern Australia
Climate, people and faunal succession on Java, Indonesia
Assemblage variability in the Willandra Lakes
An examination of existing typological descriptions of the stone artefact assemblages from the Willandra Lakes facilitates the development of basic models about assemblage variability in the region. After defining some of the limitations of the data set we illustrate well‐defined spatial patterns in assemblage composition and hypothesise that they reflect a strategy of provisioning the lunette landscape with stone artefacts that were robust and w…
Reinterpreting the 1969–1972 Willandra Lakes archaeological surveys
The surveys of the Willandra Lakes sites between 1969 and 1972 were the first to attempt the study of open sites on an archaeological landscape rather rockshelters. Gaps in the evidence were filled using ethnographic data based on observations of 19th century Bagundji life. The conclusions drawn regarding the continuity of Aboriginal subsistence and the development of intensive wild cereal gathering were robust and have played a part in archaeolo…
The archaeology of Mungo and the Willandra Lakes
Reviewing archaeological research in the Willandra Lakes area over the past forty years shows a number of methodological and conceptual problems. One of these is the use of ethnographic models of Aboriginal behaviour to organise the archaeological data. Such models privilege spatial over temporal relationships and minimise the extent of archaeological changes over time. Of research to date, it is Bowler's correlations of archaeological and hydrog…
Where the crow flies backwards
The Darling River, the second largest in eastern Australia, flows through an area of semi-arid grassland. The presence of the river in this dry region created a highly favourable environment for Aboriginal inhabitants. Historical descriptions of these Aborigines, mostly written in the late nineteenth century, show the Darling River as the single most important human resource in the Darling Basin. These records provide some evidence that the Bagun…
Burkes Cave and Flaked Stone Assemblage Variability in Western New South Wales, Australia
In 1970, Harry Allen excavated a small section of creek terrace adjacent to Burkes Cave in the Scope Range of western New South Wales, revealing a stratified deposit dated by a single radiocarbon determination to c.2000 BP. An analysis of the stone artefact assemblage was never fully published. In this paper we present a description of the technological characteristics and composition of the stone artefact assemblage from this important site and …
Late pleistocene and Holocene settlement patterns and environment, Kakadu, Northern Territory, Australia
Innovation and change in northern Australian Aboriginal spear technologies
Unlike the majority of spears used by Australian Aboriginal people, reed spears were a lightweight form that made optimal use of spearthrower technology. In the Kimberleys, reed spears were mounted with small pressure‐flaked stone projectile points. Small projectile points occur in the archaeological record of both the Kimberleys and western Arnhem Land. Outside the Kimberleys, however, there is no record of how these were mounted and used. This …
Footprints in the sand
Here is a paper of pivotal importance to all prehistorians attempting to reconstruct societies from assemblages of shells or stone artefacts in dispersed sites deposited over tens of thousands of years. The authors demonstrate the perilous connections between the distribution and content of sites, their geomorphic formation process and the models used to analyse them. In particular they warn against extrapolating the enticing evidence from Pleist…
W # hi ngaro (the lost portion)
During the last twenty years M # ori have endeavoured to re-establish control over their material culture and spiritual relationship to the landscape working through new associations with local bodies, museums and researchers. One of their concerns is with cultural wetlands. Wetlands contain M # ori , archaeological and ecological values. Despite this, current legislation offers little or no protection for these fragile ecosystems or for the spir…
The First University Positions in Prehistoric Archaeology in New Zealand and Australia
University Departments employing prehistoric archaeologists have a long history in the United States and the United Kingdom, going back to the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. Developments in prehistoric archaeology in Australia and New Zealand, however, began only in the 1950s, generally within Anthropology or History Departments. The initial appointments of prehistoric archaeologists in New Zealand and Australia…
Aboriginal Man Adapting the human biology of Australian Aborigines
Kohika
Reviewed by: Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Māori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Harry Allen Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Māori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Geoffrey Irwin, ed. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004. The Kohika volume explores the archaeology of a Māori lake village situated on the flood plain of the Rangitaiki and Tarawera Rivers, not far from where th…
Legacy archaeology
Ngaut Ngaut (Devon Downs) and Tungawa (Fromm’s Landing) 2 and 6 are located in the Gorge Section of the Lower Murray River. They were excavated more than 60 years ago. Unusually, they preserved fauna over the 6000 or 7000 years of occupation. Assessing this record, it is concluded that Aboriginal agents were responsible for the middens in these rockshelters. Following this, Ngaut Ngaut and the Tungawa sites are compared in terms of their dating, …
Monumental landscapes and the agency of the dead along the Murray River, Australia
Using a surviving record from AD 1856/7, we analyse the distribution of Aboriginal burial monuments along the Murray River, Australia recorded by Gerard Krefft and William Blandowski. Their detailed record enables us to recreate a necrogeography along the river. The regional perspective this provides demonstrates both broad traditions and clinal shifts that serve to identify zones of diversity and interaction. These zones of practice were recogni…
Working Together? Maori and Archaeologists in Aotearoa/New Zealand Today
Continuity and discontinuity at the burial site of Roonka, Murray Gorge, South Australia
Identifying continuity and discontinuity in Holocene hunter-gatherer burial sites is often challenging. Roonka, is the largest excavated burial area in Australia. Despite preliminary analysis in the 1970–1980s chronology was challenging given the complex record of dune formation, intrusive burials, erosion and exposure. As part of collaboration with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, we have re-analysed the legacy data. We have c…
East of Wallace's Line
Reviewed by: East of Wallace's Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region Harry Allen East of Wallace's Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region. Edited by Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 16. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 2000. 380 pp. $76.00. ISBN 90-5809-319-0. This volume derives from a symposium held in 1997 with the majority of pap…
Why did Maori bury artefacts in the wetlands of pre-contact Aotearoa/New Zealand
A significant number of Maori waterlogged wooden artefacts have been found in New Zealand. Although some were associated with occupations, many were deliberately buried in wetlands. These wetland finds are a small subset of the full range of wooden artefacts found in occupation sites. Unfortunately, they tend to be found by chance during farm drainage; consequently archaeologists seldom see the finds in context. Only a small percentage of wetland…
The time of the mangroves
A Re-Examination of the Usefulness of Edge Analysis for Classifying Stone Implements
For the past 20 years in Australian archaeology edge analysis has been offered as a viable alternative to the conventional artefact taxonomic systems currently available. Thus White and O'Connell, in A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul (White and O'Connell 1982:66-67) suggest that analyses of early Australian flake assemblages which take into account attributes of the retouched and altered edges of the tools are likely to be more info…
Pleistocene human remains from Australia
A recently discovered Pleistocene archaeological site at Lake Mungo, western N.S.W., is announced and described. This was found within the core of a lunette sand dune at a level dated to between 25,000 and 32,000 years B.P., and is thus the oldest archaeological site so far discovered in Australia. The stratigraphy and chronology are described, and a palaeo‐environ‐mental reconstruction is made. Within the site were stone tools, hearths, faunal r…
The Bagundji of the darling basin
Until the 1880s the semi-arid Darling River Basin, in western New South Wales, was inhabited by Aborigines belonging to the Bagundji linguistic group. The Bagundji economy was primarily riverine in character based on the collection of aquatic foods and wild cereals. Seasonal variations in their subsistence activities can be related to seasonal variations in the productivity of their habitat. Despite a long period of association with wild cereals,…
Graduation Address
Sir Herman Black, Lady Black, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen.When I was first asked would I come along this afternoon to say a few words, my reply was, "I will think about it". The response was, "How long do you need to think?"Well, here I am.It gives me great pleasure to be here this afternoon, to take part in this occasion. An occasion that has been taking place about this time every year, since 1975.1975 will always be a year to re…
Aboriginal Man Adapting the human biology of Australian Aborigines
A Re-Examination of the Usefulness of Edge Analysis for Classifying Stone Implements
For the past 20 years in Australian archaeology edge analysis has been offered as a viable alternative to the conventional artefact taxonomic systems currently available. Thus White and O'Connell, in A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul (White and O'Connell 1982:66-67) suggest that analyses of early Australian flake assemblages which take into account attributes of the retouched and altered edges of the tools are likely to be more info…
Archaeology With Ethnography
ARCHAEOLOGY WITH ETHNOGRAPHY: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE, by BETTY MEEHAN and RHYS JONES (eds)." Australian Archaeology, 29(1), pp. 80–81
Late pleistocene and Holocene settlement patterns and environment, Kakadu, Northern Territory, Australia
[Years of Hominid Discovery in Java] a Review of the Late Pleistocene/Early Recent Stone Tool Assemblages of Java
Ethnography and Prehistoric Archaeology in Australia
The time of the mangroves
Reinterpreting the 1969–1972 Willandra Lakes archaeological surveys
The surveys of the Willandra Lakes sites between 1969 and 1972 were the first to attempt the study of open sites on an archaeological landscape rather rockshelters. Gaps in the evidence were filled using ethnographic data based on observations of 19th century Bagundji life. The conclusions drawn regarding the continuity of Aboriginal subsistence and the development of intensive wild cereal gathering were robust and have played a part in archaeolo…
The Riches of Ancient Australia
Reviewed by: The Riches of Ancient Australia: An Indispensable Guide for Exploring Prehistoric Australia Harry Allen The Riches of Ancient Australia: An Indispensable Guide for Exploring Prehistoric Australia. Josephine Flood. 3rd ed. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999. xix + 382 pp.; illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0-7022-3083-9. The Riches of Ancient Australia closely follows the text of the 1990 edition with only m…
Assemblage variability in the Willandra Lakes
An examination of existing typological descriptions of the stone artefact assemblages from the Willandra Lakes facilitates the development of basic models about assemblage variability in the region. After defining some of the limitations of the data set we illustrate well‐defined spatial patterns in assemblage composition and hypothesise that they reflect a strategy of provisioning the lunette landscape with stone artefacts that were robust and w…
Why did Maori bury artefacts in the wetlands of pre-contact Aotearoa/New Zealand
A significant number of Maori waterlogged wooden artefacts have been found in New Zealand. Although some were associated with occupations, many were deliberately buried in wetlands. These wetland finds are a small subset of the full range of wooden artefacts found in occupation sites. Unfortunately, they tend to be found by chance during farm drainage; consequently archaeologists seldom see the finds in context. Only a small percentage of wetland…
W # hi ngaro (the lost portion)
During the last twenty years M # ori have endeavoured to re-establish control over their material culture and spiritual relationship to the landscape working through new associations with local bodies, museums and researchers. One of their concerns is with cultural wetlands. Wetlands contain M # ori , archaeological and ecological values. Despite this, current legislation offers little or no protection for these fragile ecosystems or for the spir…
East of Wallace's Line
Reviewed by: East of Wallace's Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region Harry Allen East of Wallace's Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region. Edited by Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 16. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 2000. 380 pp. $76.00. ISBN 90-5809-319-0. This volume derives from a symposium held in 1997 with the majority of pap…
Kohika
Reviewed by: Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Māori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Harry Allen Kohika: The Archaeology of a Late Māori Lake Village in the Ngati Awa Rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Geoffrey Irwin, ed. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2004. The Kohika volume explores the archaeology of a Māori lake village situated on the flood plain of the Rangitaiki and Tarawera Rivers, not far from where th…
Burkes Cave and Flaked Stone Assemblage Variability in Western New South Wales, Australia
In 1970, Harry Allen excavated a small section of creek terrace adjacent to Burkes Cave in the Scope Range of western New South Wales, revealing a stratified deposit dated by a single radiocarbon determination to c.2000 BP. An analysis of the stone artefact assemblage was never fully published. In this paper we present a description of the technological characteristics and composition of the stone artefact assemblage from this important site and …
Hunter-gatherer burials and the creation of persistent places in southeastern Australia
Climate, people and faunal succession on Java, Indonesia
Footprints in the sand
Here is a paper of pivotal importance to all prehistorians attempting to reconstruct societies from assemblages of shells or stone artefacts in dispersed sites deposited over tens of thousands of years. The authors demonstrate the perilous connections between the distribution and content of sites, their geomorphic formation process and the models used to analyse them. In particular they warn against extrapolating the enticing evidence from Pleist…
Australasia
The archaeology of Mungo and the Willandra Lakes
Reviewing archaeological research in the Willandra Lakes area over the past forty years shows a number of methodological and conceptual problems. One of these is the use of ethnographic models of Aboriginal behaviour to organise the archaeological data. Such models privilege spatial over temporal relationships and minimise the extent of archaeological changes over time. Of research to date, it is Bowler's correlations of archaeological and hydrog…
In care of the Southern Ocean
Thomson’s Spears
Professor Nicolas Peterson is a central figure in the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia. This volume honours his anthropological body of work, his commitment to ethnographic fieldwork as a source of knowledge, his exemplary mentorship of generations of younger scholars and his generosity in facilitating the progress of others. The diverse collection produced by former students, current colleagues and long-term peers provides reflections on his…
Archaeology (32 obras) · Geography (27 obras) · History (25 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (24 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (22 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (21 obras) · History (16 obras) · Ecology (12 obras) · Geology (12 obras) · Sociology (10 obras)