Chris Urwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3826678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Urwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Urwin |
| SIGNATURE | URWIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indigenous Studies, Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building culturally meaningful chronologies
This paper examines some of the ways in which Indigenous and Western archaeological chronologies are being negotiated and entwined in Oceania. Indigenous pasts are often known through oral traditions, genealogies and ancestral landscapes; these are vital pasts populated by the ancestors. The archaeological past is often interpreted through taphonomy, stratigraphy and direct dating techniques. There are tensions and intersections between these per…
Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia. Yet archaeological radiocarbon chronologies for the Southeast Asian trepang industry and earlier voyaging encounters are few and the …
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea's south coast
Aboriginal monumental stone-working in Northern Australia during the Pleistocene
Chris URWIN, Bruno DAVID, Jean-Jacques DELANNOY, Joshua A. BELL, Jean-Michel GENESTE, Aboriginal monumental stone-working in Northern Australia during the Pleistocene, Megaliths of the World, pp. 241-256
Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia
The Development (and Imagined Reinvention) of Australian Archaeology in the Twentieth Century
Most histories of Australian archaeology written in the past three decades imagine that the discipline came of age in (approximately) the year 1960. We are led to believe that systematic archaeological research, nuanced interpretations, and advocacy for the conservation of Aboriginal cultural heritage all date to the post-1960 era. Yet archaeological research in Australia has a lengthier and more complex genealogy. Here we use a series of case st…
Paradigm shifts and ontological turns at Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Australia
In recent years, a number of authors have theorized an “ontological turn” that is reorienting research in the human and social sciences. In this setting, we have witnessed an increasing number of anthropological and archaeological works seeking to recognize ontological difference among a variety of human groups, from Indigenous societies to Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. While ontological approaches have been restricted to anatomically modern huma…
Excavating and interpreting ancestral action
The Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, is a rapidly changing geomorphic and cultural landscape in which the ancestral past is constantly being (re)interpreted and negotiated. This paper examines the importance of subsurface archaeological and geomorphological features for the various communities of Orokolo Bay in the Gulf of Papua as they maintain and re-construct cosmological and migration narratives. The everyday practices of digging and clearing…
Excavating and interpreting ancestral action
The Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, is a rapidly changing geomorphic and cultural landscape in which the ancestral past is constantly being (re)interpreted and negotiated. This paper examines the importance of subsurface archaeological and geomorphological features for the various communities of Orokolo Bay in the Gulf of Papua as they maintain and re-construct cosmological and migration narratives. The everyday practices of digging and clearing…
Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea's south coast
Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia. Yet archaeological radiocarbon chronologies for the Southeast Asian trepang industry and earlier voyaging encounters are few and the …
Excavating and interpreting ancestral action
The Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, is a rapidly changing geomorphic and cultural landscape in which the ancestral past is constantly being (re)interpreted and negotiated. This paper examines the importance of subsurface archaeological and geomorphological features for the various communities of Orokolo Bay in the Gulf of Papua as they maintain and re-construct cosmological and migration narratives. The everyday practices of digging and clearing…
The Development (and Imagined Reinvention) of Australian Archaeology in the Twentieth Century
Most histories of Australian archaeology written in the past three decades imagine that the discipline came of age in (approximately) the year 1960. We are led to believe that systematic archaeological research, nuanced interpretations, and advocacy for the conservation of Aboriginal cultural heritage all date to the post-1960 era. Yet archaeological research in Australia has a lengthier and more complex genealogy. Here we use a series of case st…
Paradigm shifts and ontological turns at Cloggs Cave, GunaiKurnai Country, Australia
In recent years, a number of authors have theorized an “ontological turn” that is reorienting research in the human and social sciences. In this setting, we have witnessed an increasing number of anthropological and archaeological works seeking to recognize ontological difference among a variety of human groups, from Indigenous societies to Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. While ontological approaches have been restricted to anatomically modern huma…
Aboriginal monumental stone-working in Northern Australia during the Pleistocene
Chris URWIN, Bruno DAVID, Jean-Jacques DELANNOY, Joshua A. BELL, Jean-Michel GENESTE, Aboriginal monumental stone-working in Northern Australia during the Pleistocene, Megaliths of the World, pp. 241-256
Marra philosophies of stone, and the stone artefacts of Walanjiwurru 1 rockshelter, Marra Country, northern Australia
Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia. Yet archaeological radiocarbon chronologies for the Southeast Asian trepang industry and earlier voyaging encounters are few and the …
Rethinking agency in hiri exchange relationships on Papua New Guinea's south coast
Building culturally meaningful chronologies
This paper examines some of the ways in which Indigenous and Western archaeological chronologies are being negotiated and entwined in Oceania. Indigenous pasts are often known through oral traditions, genealogies and ancestral landscapes; these are vital pasts populated by the ancestors. The archaeological past is often interpreted through taphonomy, stratigraphy and direct dating techniques. There are tensions and intersections between these per…
Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (4 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)