Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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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 -
ATHENIANS. Surviving the Catastrophe: the peoples' response to the invasion, and the threat of becoming stateless (apolis) in the case of the Persian Wars
Published 2017-01-01The Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations (1946-1967), Homer A. Thompson, said the following regarding the Persian-led destruction of Athens: "people's reaction to disasters is more indicative of a nation's character ...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 -
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 -
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 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 -
Colour and Identity in Ancient Greece
Published 2016-01-01This thesis explores the possible conventional use of colour for the representation of identity in ancient Greece from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. The question is considered for broad identities based on gender, ...Open AccessThesis -
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 -
A Critical Analysis of Gendered Approaches to Funerary, Settlement and Public Space Archaeology in the Classical World
Published 2016-01-01This thesis is a critical analysis of the methods and application of gendered research in classical archaeology, with specific focus on funerary, settlement and public space archaeology. This study concentrates on the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Deathly Depictions and Descriptions: Understanding Attic Representations of the Deceased in the Afterlife in Text and Image during the 6th and 5th Centuries BC
Published 2018-03-08This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of Attic conceptions of the deceased in the afterlife. It thereby aims to identify and explain how the deceased were represented in a specifically selected corpus of textual and ...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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Human Life in Early Bronze Age I Jericho: A Study of the Fragmented Human Skeletal Remains from Tomb A61
Published 2018-03-07This Honours research thesis takes an in-depth look at the human skeletal remains from an Early Bronze Age I Jericho tomb, excavated by Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950’s. Tomb A61 contains highly fragmented and commingled human ...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