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 …

Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people
through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to …

This paper draws on a critical review of the nature of quality, cost and value in nineteenth-
century consumerism and the role these concepts may play in interpretive assemblage …

In this paper I argue for an expansion of the role of assemblage analysis in understanding
daily life in nineteenth-century working-class neighborhoods. The close and systematic …

This paper reviews aspects a/the role that theory plays in practice ofAustralian historical
archaeology, and compares this with the situation as described 16 years ago. While some …

Global processes such as capitalism and colonialism are influenced by local forces and
manifested in events at a local level. The study of local practices can thus provide new …

Global Social Archaeologies contributes to the active engagement of contemporary social
archaeology through addressing issues such as postcolonialism, community heritage, and …

Abstract The Alderley Sandhills Project (ASP) was designed to archaeologically explore the
transformative roles of industrialization and de-industrialization on the working communities …

In discussing the acceptance of the ideology of domesticity by the working class of Australia,
Grace Karskens (2001: 79) has suggested that archaeologists need to “consider the limits of …

The settlement of Australia has long been interpreted as a consequence of the Industrial
Revolution (Jack 1979: 7). As a result, Australian Industrial Archaeology has been primarily …