Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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