Sandra Bowdler
Biographic Data
| ID | 85724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Bowdler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowdler |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2755-7602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 464 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Landscapes created by millennia of cultural land use in the Fleurieu Group of Islands, Tasmania—a knowledge baseline for current and future land management under changing climates
Aboriginal peoples have managed Australian landscapes for millennia; however, deep-time paleoecological evidence of the nature of landscape modification remains rare. The Fleurieu Group of islands in Bass Strait was one of the areas actively used by Aboriginal people in lutruwita (Tasmania), until forced dispossession of their lands due to European colonization occurred over 230 years ago, with subsequent land use including leaseholder pastoralis…
Langford, Rosalind
Change and decay in all around I see … but shine through the gloom
"Change and decay in all around I see ... but shine through the gloom." Australian Archaeology, 86(3), pp. 295–296
What do we actually publish? / New style guide
It will come as no surprise to our readers that we publish a lot of papers on Australian excavations, and the stone artefacts that they produce. Continuing in our series of self-referential surveye
Australian Archaeology: A snapshot of the submission cycle
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Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’ (Clarkson et al. 2017): A discussion
‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’ (Clarkson et al. 2017): a discussion." Australian Archaeology, 83(3), pp. 162–163
Long history, deep time: Deepening histories of place
This quite strange book seems to be arguing inter alia that Historians should have an expanded role in exploring, interpreting and explaining the ‘deep history’ (in a chronological sense) of Aborig...
The Bass Strait Islands revisited
Charlie Dortch
Malimup: A Tasmanian Aboriginal Hoabinhian site in the southwest of Western Australia
The Hoabinhian technocomplex of Southeast Asia is characterised by distinctive pebble edge tools which are also found in Australia, but only in the southeast, including Tasmania. Charlie Dortch in the early 1970s reported a unique site with Hoabinhian tools in southwest Australia at Malimup, Western Australia (WA), dated to the recent past. An analysis of the pebble edge tools from Malimup showed they were similar to those from eastern Australia,…
Charlie Dortch: History and archaeology across three continents
Charlie Dortch's lasting interest in the human past could be said to have begun in his childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, surrounded by Native American and Civil War heritage. After service in the US Army in Berlin from 1959-1961, he graduated in 1963 from the University of Southern Mississippi with a BSc in history and a penchant for adventure. He fulfilled the latter by working as navigator and surveyor for geophysical crews in Brazil and Libya - v…
Backfill Obituaries
Forum: Backed Artefacts: Useful Socially and Operationally
This paper has two purposes. One is to question the adequacy of the current utilitarian explanation for the wide proliferation of backed artefacts in Australia in the later Holocene. The second is to suggest that broadly social explanations for this event need to be given more weight
The empty coast: Conditions for human occupation in southeast Australia during the late Pleistocene
Gatherers and Grannies: Further Thoughts on the Origins of Gender
Fish and Culture: A Tasmanian Polemic
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland
Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland." The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 3(1), pp. 164–165
The Faroes Grindadráp or Pilot Whale Hunt: The Importance of it's 'Traditional' Status in Debates with Conservationists
The intense debates between whale-hunting and whale-protecting nations (such as Japan and Iceland versus Australia and the USA) reveal the difficulties of communication between those who derive a livelihood from the products of the environment and those who wish to preserve it, but who do not always live in the same locale. This is demonstrated with a review of some Australian instances of relations between those in the conservation movement and …
Spear and digging stick: The origin of gender and its implications for the colonization of new continents
A division of labour between sexes/genders in which, although there is some overlap, men hunt large game and women collect smaller game, shellfish and most plant foods, is a characteristic of all documented hunter-gatherer societies. We argue that there is no biological reason for this behaviour and that it must be a social construct. These gender roles became part of the structure of societies at the same time as other forms of symbolic behaviou…
Thesis Abstracts
Hunters and traders in northern Australia
Australia has long been considered the continent of hunter-gatherers (e.g. Lourandos 1997). There has been a tendency to assume that Aboriginal people in Australia persisted in the foraging mode until historical times because they had been isolated from the rest of the world and its different economic histories. While most archaeologists agree that Australia was almost certainly first colonized from Southeast Asia, there has been a reluctance to …
That shadowy band: The role of women in the development of Australian archaeology
The role of women in the development of Australian archaeology is so manifest, and has been so substantial, it hardly seems necessary to devote a paper to it. On the other hand, as the only substantial published history of Australian Aboriginal archaeology does manage to exclude this contribution (Horton 1991; Bowdler 1993), there is clearly a case for indicating what was overlooked. McBryde (1993a:xi) refers to that intrepid yet often shadowy, e…
Identifying style in Australian stone artefacts: An attempt to provide a theoretical basis
Archaeologists in Australia have long had problems with stone tools. Aboriginal flaked stone artefacts quickly acquired the reputation of being amorphous and resistant to traditional archaeological analytical techniques. While it is recognised that this is a Eurocentric perception, it has nevertheless resulted in a reluctance to use stone artefacts as a source of cultural information. This paper suggests a theoretical framework articulated with a…
The human colonization of Sunda and Sahul: Cultural and behavioural considerations
Freud and archaeology
Research and Development in the Stone Age: Technological Transitions among Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]
The transition from Pleistocene to Archaic/Mesolithic is analyzed in broad ecological terms. The trend throughout most of the Pleistocene toward increasing technological diversity is linked to the expectable ecological tendency to increase resource reliability. The advent of culture enabled man to increase resource reliability by diversifying his resource base. Resources were largely of the K-selected type, economical to procure with simple techn…
Hunters in the Highlands: Aboriginal Adaptations in the Eastern Australian Uplands
Hook, Line, and Dilly Bag: An Interpretation of an Australian Coastal Shéll Midden
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record: Ethnographic and Archaeological Examples [and Comments and Replies]
Isolation and Evolution in Tasmania [and Comments and Reply]
Repainting Australian rock art
Where and when does a living culture cease, where and when does archaeology begin? The issue has been raised again, this time concerning the repainting of Australian rock pictures
Fish and Culture: A Tasmanian Polemic
Spear and digging stick: The origin of gender and its implications for the colonization of new continents
A division of labour between sexes/genders in which, although there is some overlap, men hunt large game and women collect smaller game, shellfish and most plant foods, is a characteristic of all documented hunter-gatherer societies. We argue that there is no biological reason for this behaviour and that it must be a social construct. These gender roles became part of the structure of societies at the same time as other forms of symbolic behaviou…
Backfill
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
Some Sort Of Dates At Malakunanja II: A Reply To Roberts Et Al
Some Sort Of Dates At Malakunanja II: A Reply To Roberts Et Al.." Australian Archaeology, 32(1), pp. 50–51
Unconsidered Trifles? Cultural Resource Management, Environmental Impact Statements and Archaeological Research in New South Wales
Two sets of legislation in New South Wales are considered with regard to the fate of prehistoric archaeological sites. One to control archaeologists and one to control developers and both are in force in New South Wales. The paper discusses some of their implications
Stone Tools, Style and Function: Evidence from the Stockyard Site, Hunter Island
Forum: Backed Artefacts: Useful Socially and Operationally
This paper has two purposes. One is to question the adequacy of the current utilitarian explanation for the wide proliferation of backed artefacts in Australia in the later Holocene. The second is to suggest that broadly social explanations for this event need to be given more weight
That shadowy band: The role of women in the development of Australian archaeology
The role of women in the development of Australian archaeology is so manifest, and has been so substantial, it hardly seems necessary to devote a paper to it. On the other hand, as the only substantial published history of Australian Aboriginal archaeology does manage to exclude this contribution (Horton 1991; Bowdler 1993), there is clearly a case for indicating what was overlooked. McBryde (1993a:xi) refers to that intrepid yet often shadowy, e…
Long history, deep time: Deepening histories of place
This quite strange book seems to be arguing inter alia that Historians should have an expanded role in exploring, interpreting and explaining the ‘deep history’ (in a chronological sense) of Aborig...
Before Dirk Hartog: Prehistoric Archaeoidgical Research in Shark Bay, Western Australia
Since 1985, I have been carrying out archaeological field work at Shark Bay, for purposes of pure research and also as training for undergraduates from the University of Western Australia. This work has involved the location and recording of prehistoric archaeological sites, surface collecting to sample artefacts and also to provide dating materials, and test excavation of selected sites. The general aims have been to provide a chronological fram…
The excavation of two small rockshelters at Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, Western Australia
The first archaeological excavations at Shark Bay were carried out in 1986, in two small rockshelters at Monkey Mia, on the east side of Peron Peninsula. These were designed as test excavations only. It is unlikely that further excavation of these sites will be carried out in the foreseeable future, as the amount of deposit in each shelter is very small, and it is not expected that much additional information would be gained. It seems however use…
Offshore islands and maritime explorations in Australian prehistory
The settlement of mainland Australia at an early (and uncertainly known) date required a water-crossing. What about the settlement of the islands - neither numerous nor large compared with the island continent itself - that are offshore from Australia? The evidence reviewed shows a late settlement for nearly all of them, and a perplexing lack of pattern
Further Radiocarbon Dates from Cave Bay Cave, Hunter Island, North-West Tasmania
Man's presence in Tasmania during the Pleistocene was recently demonstrated by a radiocarbon date of 18,550 + 600 BP from Cave Bay Cave, Hunter Island. Further excavation was carried out at this site during January and February of this year, and more radiocarbon dates are to hand. The archaeological sequence suggested before has been considerably clarified, and the new dates extend the antiquity of man in the region by some 4,000 years
Gatherers and Grannies: Further Thoughts on the Origins of Gender
Freud and archaeology
Unquiet slumbers: The return of the Kow Swamp burials
Another view is given on issues arising from the return of the Kow Swamp human remains, discussed by John Mulvaney in the March 1991 ANTIQUITY
Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’ (Clarkson et al. 2017): A discussion
‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’ (Clarkson et al. 2017): a discussion." Australian Archaeology, 83(3), pp. 162–163
Rainforest: Colonised or Coloniser? 1
This paper presents a rationale for a research project on the archaeology of the rain forests of New South Wales, and some preliminary results. The idea for the project arose from my earlier consultancy with the Forestry Commission of New South Wales (Bowdler in press a). Although I began this project, I have had to discontinue my own immediate personal involvement in it for geographical reasons, and it is to be carried on by Denis Byrne under my…
Further Radiocarbon Dates from Cave Bay Cave, Hunter Island, North-West Tasmania
Man's presence in Tasmania during the Pleistocene was recently demonstrated by a radiocarbon date of 18,550 + 600 BP from Cave Bay Cave, Hunter Island. Further excavation was carried out at this site during January and February of this year, and more radiocarbon dates are to hand. The archaeological sequence suggested before has been considerably clarified, and the new dates extend the antiquity of man in the region by some 4,000 years
Hook, Line, and Dilly Bag: An Interpretation of an Australian Coastal Shéll Midden
Communication Breakthrough
Unconsidered Trifles? Cultural Resource Management, Environmental Impact Statements and Archaeological Research in New South Wales
Two sets of legislation in New South Wales are considered with regard to the fate of prehistoric archaeological sites. One to control archaeologists and one to control developers and both are in force in New South Wales. The paper discusses some of their implications
Research and Development in the Stone Age: Technological Transitions among Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]
The transition from Pleistocene to Archaic/Mesolithic is analyzed in broad ecological terms. The trend throughout most of the Pleistocene toward increasing technological diversity is linked to the expectable ecological tendency to increase resource reliability. The advent of culture enabled man to increase resource reliability by diversifying his resource base. Resources were largely of the K-selected type, economical to procure with simple techn…
Stone Tools, Style and Function: Evidence from the Stockyard Site, Hunter Island
Hunters in the Highlands: Aboriginal Adaptations in the Eastern Australian Uplands
Towards the Recognition of Convergent Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone [with Comments and Replies]
In their more optimistic papers, Oceanic prehistorians have contended that that area, with its hundreds of islands, diversity of physical environments, and short period of human occupation, offers "laboratory conditions" for the study of culture change. This paper reports an attempt to take advantage of those conditions. The prehistory of the isolated and temperate Chatham Islands is outlined, and causes of the "devolutionary" culture change whic…
Debitage
A White Prehistory: A prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul by J. Peter White and James F. O'Connell
(1983). A WHITE PREHISTORY: A prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul by J. Peter White and James F. O'Connell. Australian Archaeology: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 134-143
Rainforest: Colonised or Coloniser? 1
This paper presents a rationale for a research project on the archaeology of the rain forests of New South Wales, and some preliminary results. The idea for the project arose from my earlier consultancy with the Forestry Commission of New South Wales (Bowdler in press a). Although I began this project, I have had to discontinue my own immediate personal involvement in it for geographical reasons, and it is to be carried on by Denis Byrne under my…
Academic Hatchets: Australian stone hatchets: A study in design and dynamics , by Frank P. Dickson
Shell Bed to Shell Midden
Daughters of the Dreaming , by Diane Bell
(1984). Daughters of the Dreaming, by Diane Bell. Australian Archaeology: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 116-117
Reconciling archaeological and aboriginal interests in the protection of sites
Coastal Southwest Tasmania: The prehistory of Louisa Bay and Maatsuyker Island , by R. Vanderwal and D. Horton. Terra Australis 9
Household Hints From The West
Recent Directions in Tasmanian Prehistory and the Role of Cultural Resource Management
This paper arises from two concerns. One is my growing unease with how the role of cultural resource management (CRM) is perceived in Australian archaeological research. The other is my equally personal impression that such research in Tasmania has lost a certain relevance and direction over the last five or six years. This is not to say that the standard of archaeological endeavour has diminished, but that its concerns have become diffuse. Is th…
The Future of the Past in the West: Research Directions in Western Australian Archaeology
This is the first meeting of the Australian Archaeological Association to be held in Perth since its inception, and it is furthermore the first time one of these conferences, begun at Kioloa nearly ten years ago, has been held in the West. For those of us who are here, more or less permanently, it is exciting to welcome old friends and new faces. For those of us who have made the effort to cross the major barrier in modern day Australia, we expec…
Academic Freedom and Apartheid: The Story of the World Archaeological Congress, by Peter Ucko
Repainting Australian rock art
Where and when does a living culture cease, where and when does archaeology begin? The issue has been raised again, this time concerning the repainting of Australian rock pictures
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record: Ethnographic and Archaeological Examples [and Comments and Replies]
Backfill
What Are Museum Staff Paid For? A response to Richard Robins
The author opposes and comments on the views that were expressed by Richard Robins, where in he states that the collections and data should be organized and compiled in a specified format and then given to the museums. The author suggests the development of more constructive measures for overcoming the problems that arise due to the negligence of the museum staff
Before Dirk Hartog: Prehistoric Archaeoidgical Research in Shark Bay, Western Australia
Since 1985, I have been carrying out archaeological field work at Shark Bay, for purposes of pure research and also as training for undergraduates from the University of Western Australia. This work has involved the location and recording of prehistoric archaeological sites, surface collecting to sample artefacts and also to provide dating materials, and test excavation of selected sites. The general aims have been to provide a chronological fram…
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