Archaeology in Oceania articles from July 2003

Archaeology in Oceania archives from July 2003

Cross-cultural archaeology: an introduction.
July 1, 2003... In many ways much of the practice of archaeology is inherently cross-cultural. Indigenous archaeology in Australia, both pre- and post-contact, when carried out by non-indigenous archaeologists is by definition a cross-cultural practice....

The texture of agency: an example of culture-contact in central Australia.(Strangways Springs Station, northern South Australia, 1850-1900)
July 1, 2003... Abstract 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 archaeology of No man's land: indigenous camps at Corindi Beach, mid-north coast New South Wales.
July 1, 2003... It's the only piece of land that was ever left, No man's land (Tony Perkins 27/12/97 quoted in Murphy et al. 2000:5) Abstract At Corindi Beach on the mid-north coast of New South Wales are five twentieth century campsites...

Re-examining total institutions: a case study from Queensland.
July 1, 2003... Abstract Missions and reserves in Queensland dating from the 1880s to early 1980s have specific spatial and physical characteristics that fit Erving Goffman's structural description of 'total institutions' (1962:74). These specific...

Depicting cross-cultural interaction: figurative designs in wood, earth and stone from south-east Australia.
July 1, 2003... Abstract We examine Aboriginal wooden artefacts traded between European and Aboriginal Australians in south-east Australia in order to gain insight into the impact of cross-cultural interaction on Aboriginal art traditions. Although we...

A highway and a crossroads: Island Southeast Asia and culture contact archaeology.
July 1, 2003... Abstract Island Southeast Asia has several distinctive elements of its archaeological and documentary record that make it a particularly fertile region in which to further explore and develop theories of culture contact and cross-cultural...

Maori and European landscapes at Te Puna, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1805-1850.
July 1, 2003... Abstract In early nineteenth century New Zealand the arrival of missionaries and whalers initiated two different kinds of European relationships with indigenous Maori, which impacted on the indigenous landscape. This paper examines the...

Sydney's Aboriginal Past: investigating the archaeological and historical records.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Valerie Attenbrow. University of New South Wales Press, 2002. ISBN 0 86840585X. Pp.288. AUD 95. This book is a complete reference to what is currently known of the Aborigines of the Sydney area up to the coming of the First Fleet in...

Uncovering Australia. Archaeology, Indigenous people and the public.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Sarah Colley. Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, 2002. ISBN 1 86508 209 0. Pp. xvii + 251. AUD39.95. As the author asserts, this is a book 'about the practice, politics and ethics of Australian archaeology' (xv)... 'not an archaeology...

Much More Than Stones and Bones. Australian Archaeology in the late Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By Hilary du Cros Melbourne University Press, 2001. ISBN 0 522 850 20 0 (paper). Pp xv + 204. AUD34.95. Reading Much More Than Stones & Bones, one might conclude that a degree in politics, or natural ability as a story teller were more...

Visions of the Past: the Archaeology of Australian Aboriginal Art.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... By M.J. Morwood. Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, Australia, 2002. ISBN 1 86448 717 8. Pp.xii + 347. $A39.95 This is an ambitious and important book. In it, Morwood intends to address the rock art of Australia from an explicitly archaeological...