Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Temples, Tombs and Trees: Towards A Reconstruction of the Neolithic Temples of Malta
Published 2018-03-29The Neolithic “temples” of Malta from the 7th – 5th millennia BP have been objects of curiosity for European scholarship since the 18th century. What has pre-occupied architects and been discussed by archaeologists is 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 -
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 -
Stable Isotope Analysis in Roman Archaeology: Studies of Diet and Migration
Published 2018-03-07Stable isotope analysis has been implemented as a tool for archaeologists to investigate the past. Its use in Roman archaeology has primarily been in the examination of diet and migration, and this thesis’ aim is to examine ...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