Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by subject "archaeology"
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By the Sad and Mournful Sea: Mortuary Memorialisation in the Quarantine Context
Published 2015-01-01The concept and processes of quarantine are shaped by changing medical theory and ideology concerning the causes, spread and methods for curtailing infectious disease. North Head Quarantine Station in Manly, New South Wales ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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 -
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 -
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