Tim Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3075-1393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 159 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 157 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Frederick James Allen, 11 September 1938–19 November 2025
Archaeologist F. James Allen, known universally as Jim, died at Moruya Hospital after a short illness on 19 November 2025, aged 87.1 He remained an active scholar to the end with a significant co-a...
Archaeologies of Disadvantage in the Modern City: Sydney and Melbourne Compared
This chapter discusses the broad outcomes of over twenty years of research into the archaeology of two key sites in Sydney and Melbourne. It outlines the development of the theory and the method that was used to unlock the material histories of areas that had been widely regarded as slums and the lairs of the disadvantaged, and sketches the consequences of a reconsideration of life at the margins of two major colonial cities during the nineteenth…
Mr Miles, Mr Oldfield and Professor Huxley: Early Thoughts on the Origins of the Australians
This essay very briefly surveys the complex history of thinking about the human history of the continent that evolved from the very late 18th century though to the foundation of Australia in 1901. This ‘long’ 19th century saw the rise of the new disciplines of anthropology, ethnology, physical anthropology, geology, palaeontology and archaeology that either, in whole or in part, provided the framework for an inquiry into the origins of the Austra…
Advancing the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia’: Comment on Tutchener and Claudie ‘Beyond ‘contact’ and shared landscapes in Australian archaeology’
‘Advancing the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia’: Comment on Tutchener and Claudie ‘Beyond ‘contact’ and shared landscapes in Australian archaeology’." Australian Archaeology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Stay-at-Home Orders, Mobility Patterns, and Spread of Covid-19
Objectives. To understand how stay-at-home orders changed mobility patterns and influenced the spread of COVID-19. Methods. I merged 2020 data from the Virginia Department of Health, Google Mobility Reports, and the US Census to estimate a series of 2-way fixed-effect event-study regression models. Results. A stay-at-home order caused people to increase the amount of time spent at home by 12 percentage points and decrease the time the spent at wo…
Allen, Jim
The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne: A Historical Archaeology
Archaeology at First Government House, Sydney
Immigration to Australia: 1820–1900
Global Material Culture in the Modern City
Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Melbourne and Sydney Compared
The Cumberland and Gloucester Streets Site, The Rocks, Sydney
Sanitary Reform and Comparative Assemblage Analysis: Methodology
Local and Global Lessons from 20 Cesspits from Australia
Domestic Consumption: Patterns and Comparisons
Transnational Archaeologies: Colonial and Postcolonial
The Commonwealth Block in Melbourne
Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia
Towards an Archaeology of Extensive Pastoralism in the Great Artesian Basin in Australia
What is ‘European Archaeology’? What Should it be
European archaeology’ is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and inclusion, but also creates essentialized identities and exclusionary discourses. This discussion article presents a range of views on what European archaeology is, where it comes from, and what it could be
The historiography of archaeology: Exploring Theory, Contingency and Rationality
From the 1990s onwards the history of archaeology has been enjoying something of a vogue. The \npublication of the five-volume Encyclopedia of the History of Archaeology (Murray 1999, 2001) has \ngreatly expanded our store of biographies and national histories, the Bulletin of the History of \nArchaeology has provided a much needed forum for research, as has the History of Archaeology \nResearch Network (HARN), and the Archives of European Archae…
The origins of culture history in prehistoric archaeology: Rethinking Plausibility and Disciplinary Tradition
This paper explores the fundamental question of what makes archaeological accounts plausible. By using a worked example related to the rise of culture-historical approaches to archaeology during the late nineteenth century, I conclude that the conditions of plausibility have frequently been, and continue to be, opaque, requiring detailed analysis by practitioners
Razones por las que la historia de la arqueología es esencial para la teoría arqueológica
This paper discusses the relationship between the historiography of archaeology and the building and evaluation of archaeological theory. Although it is common for archaeologists to employ partial histories of archaeology to support claims for significant changes to archaeological theory, it is nonetheless the case that there is strong evidence for a counter claim – that theoretical archaeology needs to be more strongly grounded in the history of…
An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: The Hyde Park Barracks, 1848-1886
The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage dates to the period 1848 to 1886, during which a fem…
Expanding Horizons in the Archaeology of the Modern City: A Tale in Six Projects
This article discusses some of the more important implications of a long-term research project into the archaeology of the modern city in Australia. It discusses how we can explore domesticity, community, family life, and issues of residence and mobility through urban archaeology, as well as providing evidence of larger issues about how and what people produce and consume in cities. In the five projects that followed the original research at Melb…
Cambridge in the bush? Archaeology in Australia and New Guinea
The history of prehistoric archaeology in Australia is ordered into three stages. The third, 1960–80, is marked by a dominance of Cambridge‐trained people, and a focus at first on acquiring stratigraphie sequences and later on human‐environment relationships. The organisation of archaeology in Australia is described, and the political relationship between archaeologists and Aborigines discussed. Archaeology in New Guinea has concentrated on seque…
Archaeologists and Indigenous People: A Maturing Relationship
Over the past 25 years the practice of archaeology has been transformed by a broader and deeper engagement with indigenous peoples around the world. Although there are real differences in the nature and consequences of such engagements in different national and local contexts, it is now more widely understood that archaeologists should recognize the significant role of archaeological heritage in the formation and maintenance of indigenous identit…
The childhood of William Lanne: Contact archaeology and Aboriginality in Tasmania
Excavation of a site not just of the 'contact period' but of contact itself gives a new view of those darkest years around 1840 when the remaining free Tasmanian Aboriginal people were tracked down and transported to death in exile
Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Issues of Scale, Integration and Complexity
(Re) Constructing a Lost Community: “Little Lon,” Melbourne, Australia
Archaeology and the threat of the past: Sir Henry Rider Haggard and the acquisition of time
In this paper I explore some of the impacts of the discovery of high human antiquity, and the successful foundation of a science of prehistoric archaeology during the mid‐ to late nineteenth century. There are good reasons for this exploration of links between science and science fiction. It is widely acknowledged that the discovery of high human antiquity (along with the acceptance of Darwin's principle of evolution by natural selection) raised …
Monumentality and the development of the Tongan maritime chiefdom
On Tongatapu the central place of the rising kingdom of Tonga developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. Marked out as a monumental area with a rock-cut water-carrying ditch, it soon developed as the site of a sequence of megalithic tombs, in parallel with the documented expansion of the maritime chiefdom. The results of investigations into these structures were achieved with minimum intervention and disturbance on the ground, since …
Integrating Archaeology and History at the “Commonwealth Block”: “Little Lon” and Casselden Place
Theory and the development of historical archaeology in Australia
Evaluating evolutionary archaeology
It has often been observed that archaeologists are adept at borrowing theory but not very good about building it. Analyses of the uptake by archaeologists of perspectives from a diversity of sources indicate that such borrowings rarely (if ever) lead to the building of archaeological theory. The return of explicit discussion of evolutionary theory within archaeology affords us the chance to explore whether the traditional pattern of borrowing is …
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An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: The Hyde Park Barracks, 1848-1886
The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage dates to the period 1848 to 1886, during which a fem…
Histories of Archaeology: A reader in the history of archaeology
1. Introduction: Writing Histories of Archaeology 2. Brixham Cave and the Antiquity of Man 3. Introduction and Polemic 4. Perspectives of a Sentimental Journey: V. Gordon Childe in Australia 1917-1921 5. The Burden of Tribalism: The Social Context of Southern African Iron Age Studies 6. Uses of the Past: Archaeology in the Service of the State 7. The Past as Propaganda: Totalitarian Archaeology in Nazi Germany 8. The History, Philosophy and Socio…
Melbourne's ‘little Lon
How might one tap the idiom of vanished communities, once local knowledge has faded? How might one chart the mental landscapes of locales that have been overlaid by other people's understandings, and whose material forms have been erased by redevelopment? This paper integrates history and archaeology in order to reclaim the actualities of one city neighbourhood—Melbourne's ‘Little Lon—from the distorting realities fashioned by outside perceptions
What is ‘European Archaeology’? What Should it be
European archaeology’ is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and inclusion, but also creates essentialized identities and exclusionary discourses. This discussion article presents a range of views on what European archaeology is, where it comes from, and what it could be
The historiography of archaeology: Exploring Theory, Contingency and Rationality
From the 1990s onwards the history of archaeology has been enjoying something of a vogue. The \npublication of the five-volume Encyclopedia of the History of Archaeology (Murray 1999, 2001) has \ngreatly expanded our store of biographies and national histories, the Bulletin of the History of \nArchaeology has provided a much needed forum for research, as has the History of Archaeology \nResearch Network (HARN), and the Archives of European Archae…
Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology . By Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Marie-Louise Stig Sørensen
Stay-at-Home Orders, Mobility Patterns, and Spread of Covid-19
Objectives. To understand how stay-at-home orders changed mobility patterns and influenced the spread of COVID-19. Methods. I merged 2020 data from the Virginia Department of Health, Google Mobility Reports, and the US Census to estimate a series of 2-way fixed-effect event-study regression models. Results. A stay-at-home order caused people to increase the amount of time spent at home by 12 percentage points and decrease the time the spent at wo…
Decay characteristics of the eastern Lapita design system
We examine the Lapita colonization of east Fiji from the frequency of pottery designs. The design frequency analysis suggests that east Fiji was settled by Lapita groups emanating from west Fiji and Tonga, and long‐distance interaction with archipelagos to the west of Fiji was inconsequential during the terminal Lapita phase when east Fiji, Tonga and Samoa were colonized. The results have important implications for understanding Lapita colonizati…
The forced repatriation of cultural properties to Tasmania
A recent court case in Australia changes the established frames under which research archaeologists, parks administrators and Tasmanian Aborigines deal with the prehistoric archaeology of the island
Expanding Horizons in the Archaeology of the Modern City: A Tale in Six Projects
This article discusses some of the more important implications of a long-term research project into the archaeology of the modern city in Australia. It discusses how we can explore domesticity, community, family life, and issues of residence and mobility through urban archaeology, as well as providing evidence of larger issues about how and what people produce and consume in cities. In the five projects that followed the original research at Melb…
On Klejn's Agenda for Theoretical Archaeology
Tasmania and the constitution of 'the dawn of humanity
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Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia
Poverty in the Modern City: Retrospects and Prospects
Cambridge in the bush? Archaeology in Australia and New Guinea
The history of prehistoric archaeology in Australia is ordered into three stages. The third, 1960–80, is marked by a dominance of Cambridge‐trained people, and a focus at first on acquiring stratigraphie sequences and later on human‐environment relationships. The organisation of archaeology in Australia is described, and the political relationship between archaeologists and Aborigines discussed. Archaeology in New Guinea has concentrated on seque…
Cambridge in the Bush - Again: Reply to ‘In lieu of a critical self-consciousness’, N. Thomas, AA 14:1-5
(1982). CAMBRIDGE IN THE BUSH - AGAIN?: Reply to ‘In lieu of a critical self-consciousness’, N. Thomas, AA 14:1-5. Australian Archaeology: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 100-102
Industrial Archaeology or the Archaeology of Industry: Australian Pioneer Technology: Sites and Relics by Judy Birmingham, R. Ian Jack and Dennis Jeans/ Industrial Archaeology in Australia: Rural Indu…
(1983). INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OR THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF INDUSTRY?: Australian Pioneer Technology: Sites and Relics by Judy Birmingham, R. Ian Jack and Dennis Jeans/Industrial Archaeology in Australia: Rural Industry by Judy Birmingham, R. Ian Jack and Dennis Jeans. Australian Archaeology: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 129-133
Historical Archaeology Losing its Way? Bairstow at the Theoretical Crossroads
Informed assessments of theory formation and development in Australian theoretical archaeology are always welcome, not least because they are so rare. For this reason any paper which argues that Australian historical archaeologists should build theory that takes into account the peculiar nature of the data base here merits serious attention. Even more so, because by Wesson's (1983) accounting and by Bairstow's own criteria, 'Historical archaeolog…
The Australian Archaeological Association Annual General Meeting
Current Policies of the Australian Archaeological Association
This list of current policies has been prepared to guide the Executive of the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) in its execution of Association business. No other digest of policies having been heretofore prepared, the Secretary of the Association has garnered this list from the incomplete files of the AAA
Theory and the development of historical archaeology in Australia
Like WHAT? A practical question of analogical inference and archaeological meaningfulness
The Birth of Prehistoric Chronology. Dating Methods and Dating Systems in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavian Archaeology, by Bo Gräslund
"THE BIRTH OF PREHISTORIC CHRONOLOGY. DATING METHODS AND DATING SYSTEMS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCANDINAVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, by Bo Gräslund." Australian Archaeology, 28(1), pp. 154–155
Socio-Political Values and Archaeological Research: A Rejoinder to Tangri
One of the consequences of the turn towards critical self-reflection in archaeology (see e.g. Clarke 1973; Shanks and Tilley 1987) has been that we now understand more about the power of tradition. Tradition guides the socialisation of practitioners (especially in matters related to the goals of archaeology, problem selection, methodology and assessments of the plausibility of knowledge claims). Tradition also structures the terms in which practi…
Reconstructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice, by M. Shanks and C. Tilley
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Second Childehood? Gordon Childe and Australian Archaeology
I have been asked by the Editors to assess the impact of Childean archaeology on the profession of prehistoric archaeology in Australia, from the perspective of one who never knew him nor was taught by him. This distinction is important, as there are a number of senior Australian archaeologists who had direct contact with Childe, and who were beginning in the profession when his influence was at its zenith. Significantly, those same archaeologist…
The Management of Archaeological Resources in Forested Areas: A Research Project Funded By The Tasmanian Forest Research Council Inc
The Tasmanian Forest Research Council Inc. has decided to fund an entire research for analyzing the management of archaeological resources that is done in the forested areas of the northwest of the state. The background, objectives, nature and problems associated with the project are all discussed in detail
A History of Archaeological Thought . Bruce G. Trigger
Aboriginal (pre)history and Australian archaeology: The discourse of Australian prehistoric archaeology
(1992). Aboriginal (pre)history and Australian archaeology: The discourse of Australian prehistoric archaeology. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, Power, Knowledge and Aborigines, pp. 1-19
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Recovering the Past . Richard A. Gould
Tasmania and the constitution of 'the dawn of humanity
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Archaeology: Representations in Archaeology . Jean‐Claude Gardin and Christopher S. Peebles
Archaeology and the threat of the past: Sir Henry Rider Haggard and the acquisition of time
In this paper I explore some of the impacts of the discovery of high human antiquity, and the successful foundation of a science of prehistoric archaeology during the mid‐ to late nineteenth century. There are good reasons for this exploration of links between science and science fiction. It is widely acknowledged that the discovery of high human antiquity (along with the acceptance of Darwin's principle of evolution by natural selection) raised …
The childhood of William Lanne: Contact archaeology and Aboriginality in Tasmania
Excavation of a site not just of the 'contact period' but of contact itself gives a new view of those darkest years around 1840 when the remaining free Tasmanian Aboriginal people were tracked down and transported to death in exile
The Piltdown man
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The forced repatriation of cultural properties to Tasmania
A recent court case in Australia changes the established frames under which research archaeologists, parks administrators and Tasmanian Aborigines deal with the prehistoric archaeology of the island
On Klejn's Agenda for Theoretical Archaeology
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