Archaeology: Recent submissions
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Hunter-gatherer economies along the Newcastle coastline: An analysis of a shell midden site from the Late Holocene Birubi, New South Wales
Published 2018-03-08Until relatively recently, shell middens have been overlooked as culturally rich sites that can inform archaeologists on many aspects of the past. In depth analyses of all features of a site are needed in order to gain an ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Eyes Have It: An In-Depth Study of the Tell Brak Eye Idols in the 4th Millennium BCE: with a primary focus on function and meaning
Published 2018-03-08Age has often been mistaken as an indication of simplicity in design, style and artistic technique in artefacts, but this is not the case when applied to the Eye-Idols from Tell Brak. Eye-Idols were first discovered by ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Narrating Past and Present: Archaeological Sites, Heritage and a Sense of Place in Ireland
Published 2018-03-08Studies of place and landscape abound in the anthropological literature. This thesis aims at synthesising archaeological and anthropological approaches to explore how archaeological sites contribute to a sense of place and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Feeding the Confined: A Faunal Analysis of Hyde Park Barracks
Published 2018-03-08This thesis presents the results of faunal analysis and historical research in order to understand the diet of the women who lived in the Immigration Depot (1848–1886) and the Destitute Asylum (1862–1886) at Hyde Park ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ethnicity in Archaeology: A case for Khirbet Kerak Ware in the Southern Levant
Published 2016-01-01Archaeological studies of ethnicity and identity have gained increasing momentum in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This thesis is a critical examination of differing approaches to the interpretation of material ...Open AccessThesis, Honours