This volume provides an important new synthesis of archaeological work carried out in
Australia on the post-contact period. It draws on dozens of case studies from a wide …

The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most
comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution …

Melbourne grew during the 19th century from its fledgling roots into a global metropolitan
centre, and was home to many people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds. The …

Social mobility led to rapid changes in the class structure of early colonial Melbourne as the
settlement increasingly came to incorporate many people from different backgrounds. In …

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 …

This thesis presents a historical archaeological investigation of St Lawrence, a former port
town in Central Queensland, Australia, from its establishment in the mid-nineteenth century …

Pastoralism was the mainstay of the developing economy of Queensland. The men and
women who owned the pastoral properties were mainly from upper and middle class …

At the start of June 1880, Ann Jones was running a successful inn at Glenrowan, but by the
end of the month her home and business lay in ruins. The Kelly Gang had holed up in her …

Despite calls to reconsider the reliability of bottle forms for indicating function made over 20
years ago, archaeologists continue to equate bottle function with form, using descriptions …

In this chapter the results of the artifact analysis and archival research are compared in order
to explore the similarities and differences between the two cities and the two sites. This will …