“I need not try to describe what I felt as the crowd on the pier became so distant that I could
not distinguish John and you,” Maggie Brown wrote with sadness to her sister Jane in April …

The comparative analysis of artifact assemblages is simultaneously enticing and daunting.
New research questions can potentially be addressed but a number of limiting factors can …

This thesis addresses the 19th century sequence of Kerkplaats, a farm in the central Karoo,
Northern Cape, South Africa. Over this period different colonialisms of varying power and …

In the earliest decades of the settlement of Melbourne, people's backgrounds and origins
were hazy and unknown, allowing a golden opportunity to reinvent and reprise not just …

Parramatta was the second British settlement established in mainland Australia, and for a
time was the largest. Its burial ground and monuments, the oldest surviving British cemetery …

In 1802, the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, a resident of the town of Dorchester,
Massachusetts, made an unusual discovery in a pile of muck he had collected from a nearby …

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 …

The National Trust of Australia (WA) property'Old Farm Strawberry Hill'in Albany, Western
Australia is one of the state's most significant heritage locations. It is a registered Aboriginal …

During analysis of artefacts excavated at the 1 William Street development site in Brisbane
City two sherds of white granite were identified. These sherds represent the first white …

Melbourne was a major global city in the nineteenth century. Founded by pastoralists in
1835, the settlement grew explosively following the discovery of gold in 1851, and within a …