This paper identifies the emergence of the pursuit of social justice as a core focus of
collaborative archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia. A wide range of case studies are …

Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to
intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between …

Global processes associated with the expansion of colonialism and the emergence of
capitalist economies after 1500 were often driven by a desire to create new capital via the …

Investigation of social values is essential to understanding relationships between people
and place, particularly in Indigenous cultural heritage management. The value of long-term …

In the 1970s, a rare assemblage of trade beads was discovered inside a woven plant fibre
bag in a rockshelter (the 'Dillybag site') near Laura, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland …

Earth oven cookery involves cooking food in pits using hot heating elements, typically over
extended periods of time. This technique has been reported in Holocene and Late …

This paper reports on a glass artefact found on an earth mound at Diingwulung in Wathayn
Country, near Weipa, far north Queensland. Despite intense research efforts and cultural …

Postmedieval protestant missionaries working in exotic locations used objects both as a
marker of their own 'civilisation'in contrast to that of the local populations and as a means of …

This paper reports new radiocarbon determinations for late Holocene occupation in the
Weipa region of Far North Queensland, Australia. Earth mounds along the margins of small …

Modernity is often assumed to correlate with increased secularism, though scholarly
literature challenges this idea, linking ideas about modern subjectivity to Protestant …