Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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The Foundations of Madness: The role of the built environment in the mental institutions of New South Wales
Published 2011-01-01Institutionalisation has been a widespread and accepted response to insanity since the eighteenth century. These institutions were highly ideological, and the psychiatric theory that informed them was inextricably bound ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Housing the Worker
Published 2011-01-01The industrialization of Sydney and the increasing prevalence of factories in the city centre and outer suburbs from the mid-nineteenth century meant that worker housing was in high demand. The opportunity to capitalize ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
THE SB-4-6 SHELL MIDDEN ASSEMBLAGE: A SHELL MIDDEN ANALYSIS FROM A LATE PREHISTORIC VILLAGE SITE AT PAMUA ON MAKIRA, SOUTHEAST SOLOMON ISLANDS
Published 2011-01-01This thesis details the methodology, results and interpretations of analysis that was conducted on a shell midden assemblage from Pamua on the island of Makira, Southeast Solomon Islands. This midden was excavated from ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
STONE OR METAL? DIAGNOSING THE MATERIAL AGENT OF EARLY BRONZE AGE CUT MARKS FROM LERNA, GREECE
Published 2011-01-01This dissertation examines cut marks on animal bone from Early Bronze Age Lerna in Greece to determine the material agent; a stone or metal tool. An experimental group of cut marks was produced to compare to the Lerna ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Aboriginal Glass Artefacts of the Sydney Region
Published 2011-01-01Aboriginal glass artefacts (AGAs) have become the ‘type fossil’ for recognizing post-contact sites in countries with colonial pasts. Whether such reliance on AGAs is a valid development is contentious as the identification ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Memorial Markings: A study of the change over time to fonts at the Manly Quarantine station and Rookwood Cemetery
Published 2011-01-01This thesis analyses the changes in font styles used in the historical inscriptions at the Manly Quarantine Station and Rookwood Cemetery. The changes to the fonts used at each site will be compared to the changes to fonts ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Lydion: Revealing Connectivity across the Mediterranean in the Sixth Century B.C.
Published 2011-01-01The Archaic period was a period of great change around the Mediterranean: population growth, urbanization and colonization all contributed to the overturning of existing social and political structures. Growth in commercial ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Material Matters: The Moral Imperative for a Large‐Scale Perspective within the Archaeology of the Contemporary Past.
Published 2011-01-01Over the past decade, the archaeology of the contemporary past has become an established sub-field within archaeology. Yet, the overwhelming majority of research conducted within this sub-field is concerned with the study ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The End of Angkor? The Modification and Re-use of Angkor Wat
Published 2011-12-01Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, was built in the mid 12th century AD and has been continuously occupied ever since. Angkor Wat was the jewel in the crown of Greater Angkor, the capital of the Khmer ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Bronze “Bathtub” Coffins In the Context of 8th-6th Century B.C.E. Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite Funerary Practices
Published 2012-01-01Central to this thesis are a small number of unique bronze “bathtub” coffins found in 8th–6th century B.C.E. Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite burial contexts. These fascinating burial containers have not previously been ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
An Insight into Life at Geometric Zagora Provided by the Animal Bones
Published 2012-01-01This thesis is a study of the animal bone distribution at the Geometric period settlement of Zagora (ca. 850-700 BC), on the island of Andros. The animal bones were excavated during the 1967-74 University of Sydney excavations ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Authority, Acquisition and Adaptation: Nineteenth century artefacts of personal consumption from the Prisoner Barracks at Port Arthur
Published 2013-01-01Historical archaeology in Australia has countless artefact assemblages awaiting research and analysis. This thesis is the study of one such collection; the artefacts of personal consumption recovered during the first ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Consumption and Convicts: Faunal Analysis from the Port Arthur Prisoner Barracks
Published 2013-01-01This thesis will present a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains excavated from the Port Arthur Prisoner Barracks in 1977. Originally constructed in 1830 following the establishment of the Port Arthur Penal ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Value of the Past: Minoan and Minoanizing Larnakes at the Knossos North Cemetery
Published 2013-01-01The main focus of this thesis is the collection of at least seventeen larnakes or clay coffins found at the Knossos North Cemetery site on Crete. The site was uncovered as a result of one period of salvage excavations in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Celtic Question
Published 2013-01-01The identity of the “Celts” has played an integral role in the understanding of the Iron Age and the more recent socio-political history of Europe. However, the terminology and attitudes which have been in place since the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Early Japanese Urbanism: A Study of the Urbanism of Proto-historic Japan and Continuities from the Yayoi to the Asuka Periods.
Published 2013-01-01The way in which Japanese archaeologists and historians see their past has created two separate systems of periodization causing many issues for dating certain material of the same age. As a consequence of the retro-projection ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Exploring interconnectivity and similarity in the rune-stones of 10th-12th century Sweden
Published 2013-01-01What began as a study of difference in the 10th-12th century rune-stones of Sweden has become a case study in homogeneity. These ‘close-knit’ people as described by Olrik in 1930 (:4) were much more interconnected than the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
What Village Are You From? An Archaeology of Objects and Identity in the Australian Lebanese Community.
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Perfume Vessels in South-East Italy: A comparative analysis of Perfume Vessels in Greek and Indigenous Italian Burials from the 6th to 4th Centuries B.C.
Published 2013-01-01To date there has been a broad range of research investigating both perfume use in the Mediterranean and the cultural development of south-east Italy. The use of perfume was clearly an important practice in the broader ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Stone, Sources and Social Networks: Tracing Movement and Exchange Across Dharawal Country, Southeastern Australia
Published 2015-01-01Historical evidence suggests that at the time of European settlement in the NSW Illawarra region, Dharawal groups, who came together for ceremonies, had an established regional network with movement of people, and items, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours