Outside the Antipodes, Australian archaeology is best known as an archaeology of the
distant Palaeolithic past. However, where communities have been closely involved in …

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the
eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for …

Australia was first peopled by maritime voyagers who intentionally crossed from Indonesia
using watercraft 65,000 years ago. Despite this, the Holocene archaeological record …

'Community archaeology'is a relatively new sub-field of research in archaeology that aims to
involve local people in the investigation and interpretation of the past. Based on the creation …

This paper reports on the transformation from an archaeological research project to one that
focused on Indigenous cultural heritage. The ultimate outcome was the development of a …

In 2008, we began two related research projects that focus on recent Australian rock art,
made after the arrival of Asians and Europeans, in part of northwest Arnhem Land's …

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

In this paper we focus on contact rock paintings from three sites in northwestern Arnhem
Land, Australia. In doing so we highlight that such sites provide some of the only …

Since the early 1970s indigenous people have provided a challenging and often confronting
cultural and political critique of some of the long-held givens of archaeological research …

This thesis is a grammatical description of Enindhilyakwa, a non-Pama-Nyungan language
spoken by over 1200 people living in the Groote Eylandt archipelago in the Gulf of …