Alistair Paterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3810970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair Paterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair |
| FAMILY NAME | Paterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATERSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Archaeology, University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Connecting Collections
Australia's vast collections of biological, natural history, ethnographic, and social-historical materials remain largely disconnected from each other and from the public. Connecting these distributed collections, currently dispersed in local, state, national, and global locales, is critically important to generate new knowledge for national and global benefit. The vision of making these collections accessible at scale, alongside innovative metho…
Australian Colonial Land Settlement
Australia is the only continent besides Antarctica where the European settlement occurred only within the industrial era. Industrial archaeology is potentially an ideal discipline from which to understand the settlement of Australia, given that industrial production was a present and defining factor of all historical activities undertaken after 1788. This chapter considers how archaeological perspectives have provided an understanding of land set…
The Archaeology of Agrarian Australia
The arrival of Europeans in Australia heralded the establishment of new forms of farming reliant on a range of foreign domesticated plants and animals. More than any other colonial industry, farming transformed the continent’s environments, ecosystems, and Indigenous cultures. This chapter considers the history of the archaeology of agrarian Australia, and in particular the ways that Aboriginal people provided labour and knowledge. At the same ti…
Australian Deserts
Colonial Encounters, Archaeology of
Island survival
The establishment of north‐west Australia's nineteenth‐century pearlshell fisheries led to the first occupation of many arid offshore islands since the early mid‐Holocene. The nature of this occupation, and how crews subsisted on such remote landscapes, remains poorly understood. We investigate a rare instance of an archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological record for this colonial‐era activity at Bandicoot Bay, Barrow Island. Varied taxonomic repre…
The point of pearling
Once were foragers
Colonial Encounters, Archaeology of
Picturing Change and Changing Pictures
This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Picturing Change and Painting History What is Contact Period Rock Art?
Te Miro o'one
Historical accounts of European exploration and intervention in Polynesia during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries speak of the complex interpretative fields through which both Polynesians and Europeans came to understand each other. Here we employ the record of material practices on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to investigate the indigenous response to European contact from the island's 'discovery' by the Dutch in 1722 to the popul…
Indigenous perceptions of contact at Inthanoona, Northwest Western Australia
Inthanoona, a pastoral head station in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which functioned from the 1860s to the 1890s includes an assemblage of more than 250 rock engravings of which 20% are identifiable contact period motifs. These include images of clothed men and women, guns, horses, sheep, wheeled vehicles, houses and ships. Spatial analysis of the structures, artefacts and engravings on the site supports the conclusion that the contac…
Hunter‐Gatherer Interactions with Sheep and Cattle Pastoralists from the Australian Arid Zone
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Hunters and Foragers, Pastoralists, and Ranchers The Arrival of Pastoralists in Australia Transitions Interaction between Aboriginals and Pastoralists: Three Regional Studies What Happened to Nomadic Life and Pre-Contact Settlement and Subsistence? Approaches to Pastoral Domains as Settings for Cross-Cultural Interaction References
An archaeology of historical reality? A case study of the recent past
An Aboriginal elder, an archaeologist and a geographer report on an interdisciplinary project about colonial-era settlement in the Murchison and Davenport ranges in the Northern Territory. Oral history, physical evidence and historical records reveal a distinct central Australian cultural landscape and show that archaeology can do more than merely exhume material to support historical ‘realities’. This project provides new or improved understandi…
Cross‐cultural archaeology
The texture of agency
A regional historical archaeological analysis of Strangways Springs Station, northern South Australia, reveals the evidence for interaction in the period 1850–1900 between Aboriginal people and newly arrived European pastoralists. The evidence from campsites and worksites demonstrates differential Aboriginal involvement in the nineteenth century pastoral domain. The nature of cultural interaction changed as the pastoralists adapted and transforme…
Australian historical archaeology
The primary aim of this paper is to provide a review of historical archaeology in Australia. We feel that the continuing debate on the nature and course of the subject could benefit from such a review. Our goal is to provide by demonstration a de facto profile of the discipline and suggest some potential future directions. We do not give a description of the development of Australian historical archaeology but attempt to demonstrate what the disc…
Indigenous perceptions of contact at Inthanoona, Northwest Western Australia
Inthanoona, a pastoral head station in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which functioned from the 1860s to the 1890s includes an assemblage of more than 250 rock engravings of which 20% are identifiable contact period motifs. These include images of clothed men and women, guns, horses, sheep, wheeled vehicles, houses and ships. Spatial analysis of the structures, artefacts and engravings on the site supports the conclusion that the contac…
The texture of agency
A regional historical archaeological analysis of Strangways Springs Station, northern South Australia, reveals the evidence for interaction in the period 1850–1900 between Aboriginal people and newly arrived European pastoralists. The evidence from campsites and worksites demonstrates differential Aboriginal involvement in the nineteenth century pastoral domain. The nature of cultural interaction changed as the pastoralists adapted and transforme…
Cross‐cultural archaeology
Australian historical archaeology
The primary aim of this paper is to provide a review of historical archaeology in Australia. We feel that the continuing debate on the nature and course of the subject could benefit from such a review. Our goal is to provide by demonstration a de facto profile of the discipline and suggest some potential future directions. We do not give a description of the development of Australian historical archaeology but attempt to demonstrate what the disc…
The point of pearling
An archaeology of historical reality? A case study of the recent past
An Aboriginal elder, an archaeologist and a geographer report on an interdisciplinary project about colonial-era settlement in the Murchison and Davenport ranges in the Northern Territory. Oral history, physical evidence and historical records reveal a distinct central Australian cultural landscape and show that archaeology can do more than merely exhume material to support historical ‘realities’. This project provides new or improved understandi…
Island survival
The establishment of north‐west Australia's nineteenth‐century pearlshell fisheries led to the first occupation of many arid offshore islands since the early mid‐Holocene. The nature of this occupation, and how crews subsisted on such remote landscapes, remains poorly understood. We investigate a rare instance of an archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological record for this colonial‐era activity at Bandicoot Bay, Barrow Island. Varied taxonomic repre…
Te Miro o'one
Historical accounts of European exploration and intervention in Polynesia during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries speak of the complex interpretative fields through which both Polynesians and Europeans came to understand each other. Here we employ the record of material practices on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to investigate the indigenous response to European contact from the island's 'discovery' by the Dutch in 1722 to the popul…
Australian historical archaeology
The primary aim of this paper is to provide a review of historical archaeology in Australia. We feel that the continuing debate on the nature and course of the subject could benefit from such a review. Our goal is to provide by demonstration a de facto profile of the discipline and suggest some potential future directions. We do not give a description of the development of Australian historical archaeology but attempt to demonstrate what the disc…
An archaeology of historical reality? A case study of the recent past
An Aboriginal elder, an archaeologist and a geographer report on an interdisciplinary project about colonial-era settlement in the Murchison and Davenport ranges in the Northern Territory. Oral history, physical evidence and historical records reveal a distinct central Australian cultural landscape and show that archaeology can do more than merely exhume material to support historical ‘realities’. This project provides new or improved understandi…
Cross‐cultural archaeology
The texture of agency
A regional historical archaeological analysis of Strangways Springs Station, northern South Australia, reveals the evidence for interaction in the period 1850–1900 between Aboriginal people and newly arrived European pastoralists. The evidence from campsites and worksites demonstrates differential Aboriginal involvement in the nineteenth century pastoral domain. The nature of cultural interaction changed as the pastoralists adapted and transforme…
Hunter‐Gatherer Interactions with Sheep and Cattle Pastoralists from the Australian Arid Zone
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Hunters and Foragers, Pastoralists, and Ranchers The Arrival of Pastoralists in Australia Transitions Interaction between Aboriginals and Pastoralists: Three Regional Studies What Happened to Nomadic Life and Pre-Contact Settlement and Subsistence? Approaches to Pastoral Domains as Settings for Cross-Cultural Interaction References
Indigenous perceptions of contact at Inthanoona, Northwest Western Australia
Inthanoona, a pastoral head station in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which functioned from the 1860s to the 1890s includes an assemblage of more than 250 rock engravings of which 20% are identifiable contact period motifs. These include images of clothed men and women, guns, horses, sheep, wheeled vehicles, houses and ships. Spatial analysis of the structures, artefacts and engravings on the site supports the conclusion that the contac…
Te Miro o'one
Historical accounts of European exploration and intervention in Polynesia during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries speak of the complex interpretative fields through which both Polynesians and Europeans came to understand each other. Here we employ the record of material practices on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to investigate the indigenous response to European contact from the island's 'discovery' by the Dutch in 1722 to the popul…
Picturing Change and Changing Pictures
This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Picturing Change and Painting History What is Contact Period Rock Art?
Colonial Encounters, Archaeology of
Once were foragers
Australian Deserts
Colonial Encounters, Archaeology of
Island survival
The establishment of north‐west Australia's nineteenth‐century pearlshell fisheries led to the first occupation of many arid offshore islands since the early mid‐Holocene. The nature of this occupation, and how crews subsisted on such remote landscapes, remains poorly understood. We investigate a rare instance of an archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological record for this colonial‐era activity at Bandicoot Bay, Barrow Island. Varied taxonomic repre…
The point of pearling
Australian Colonial Land Settlement
Australia is the only continent besides Antarctica where the European settlement occurred only within the industrial era. Industrial archaeology is potentially an ideal discipline from which to understand the settlement of Australia, given that industrial production was a present and defining factor of all historical activities undertaken after 1788. This chapter considers how archaeological perspectives have provided an understanding of land set…
The Archaeology of Agrarian Australia
The arrival of Europeans in Australia heralded the establishment of new forms of farming reliant on a range of foreign domesticated plants and animals. More than any other colonial industry, farming transformed the continent’s environments, ecosystems, and Indigenous cultures. This chapter considers the history of the archaeology of agrarian Australia, and in particular the ways that Aboriginal people provided labour and knowledge. At the same ti…
Connecting Collections
Australia's vast collections of biological, natural history, ethnographic, and social-historical materials remain largely disconnected from each other and from the public. Connecting these distributed collections, currently dispersed in local, state, national, and global locales, is critically important to generate new knowledge for national and global benefit. The vision of making these collections accessible at scale, alongside innovative metho…
Archaeology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Geography (12 works) · History (12 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (11 works) · Colonialism (8 works) · History (7 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)