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Raw materials:
exploration, extraction, processing and transport |
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Denise
Gaughwin, Forest Practices Authority & Richard
Tuffin, Austral Tasmania |
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search for raw materials to feed the industrial revolution was
an important part of Australasia’s history from the first
European visitors to later settlers. Locating the raw materials
whether pastoral, agricultural or mineral that could be extracted
and processed and sent to distant markets marks the economic and
social history of the region. Papers are invited that address
any aspect of these activities or review the actions involved
in establishing Australasia in the globalisation process.
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New Techniques &
Scientific Methods: Globalisation in Archaeology |
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The scientific study of
maritime archaeological sites in the form of shipwrecks and
their cargoes, inundated terrestrial sites, foreshore and inter-tidal
sites, is enormously important to the advancement of our knowledge
of human history, and our understanding of Australia’s
place in the global context.
The session provides a
forum for researchers in archaeology and related disciplines,
to exchange ideas and explore future challenges in the development,
application and implementation of new technologies and scientific
methods. It is hoped the session will provide momentum in new
directions in archaeology, showcasing emerging methods in:
- Exploration and discovery
- Survey and Recording
- Data Management &
Dissemination
- Deep Water Archaeology
- Conservation &
Management of Underwater and other sites
Together, these are opening
up new frontiers in maritime and archaeological science, and
creating opportunities for interdisciplinary international development
and collaboration in a globalised world.
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Australian Conflict
Archaeology |
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Brad
Duncan, Martin
Gibbs & Denis Gojak |
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Conflict archaeology is an area of developing international
interest particularly in the USA and UK. International policies
and trends are often reflected in the colonial conflict sites,
as settlement and economic development often bring disparate
cultures into conflict. Australasian nations have been built
upon conflict and the avoidance of it, and offer great potential
to inform of events on both global and regional scales. However,
despite many individual studies across the country, the scope
of this field has still to be focused and defined in Australasia.
This session will explore
the nature of current research into conflict archaeology in
the Australia/ New Zealand region. The diverse expressions of
conflict research will be investigated with reference to potential
site types, historic sub-themes and sources, technological change,
national and international defence, social and cultural interaction,
and methodological approaches for recording archaeological sites.
The broad range of topics covered by this theme provides a huge
potential for complementary avenues of investigation for both
historical and maritime archaeological research.
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Internationalization
of Cultural Heritage Management theme Underwater Cultural Heritage
- recent International developments |
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Associate Professor Mark
Staniforth, Flinders University |
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The UNESCO Convention on
the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001 entered
into force on 2 January 2009. The coming into force of the 2001
UNESCO Convention marks the beginning of a process whereby it
will become an important international instrument for the protection
and management of the world’s fragile, finite and irreplaceable
underwater cultural heritage.
There have been some significant international developments
in the area of Underwater Cultural Heritage as a result of the
entry into force of the 2001 UNESCO Convention and, more generally,
from increasing internationalization of Underwater Cultural
Heritage Management which have arisen from factors like increasing
globalisation and the widespread use of the Internet. This session
will provide an opportunity to review some of these developments
and to suggest some directions for the future.
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Recent & Student
Research |
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Jody
Steele |
This session will invite
papers from students who wish to air their research at the Conference.
Recent research that does not fit into the overall conference
theme is also invited to present in this session.
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Internationalisation
of cultural heritage management |
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Angela
McGowan & Greg
Jackman |
This session will address contemporary global pressures on archaeological
heritage and the varied management responses. This may include
topics such as changing community perceptions towards and uses
of heritage, trends in visitation and interpretation, management
of archaeology at state and other levels, and responses to global
challenges such as climate change.
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Management of archaeological
collections post excavation - Panel discussion |
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Session Organisers: |
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Elspeth
Wishart & Linda
Clark |
A follow on from last year’s
conference. The round table will focus on the process and procedure
of how Archaeological collections end up in museums. Museums often
end up with large collections of archaeological material from
excavations that sit around in boxes with minimal access. How
can we make these collections more accessible? How can museum
staff and archaeologists work together to maximise the value of
these collections? What can we do to improve their preservation?
It will also examine the big questions. With growing accountability
and cost analysis museums are being challenged as to whether they
can afford to retain this material and why. This roundtable will
begin with a number of short examples to be followed by a lively
discussion.
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Transporting ideas,
cultures and people to and from Australasia |
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Session Organisers: |
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Brad
Williams |
The European settlement of Australia offered a clean slate in
terms of building a nation using the tried, tested and true traditions
of the homeland – people bringing familiar ideas, knowledge
and skills to this strange new territory. However, it was often
found that the new land offered vastly different opportunities
and challenges than that of the homeland – and historical
archaeology can demonstrate that that the traditional way of doing
things often was not possible, or desirable in this new land.
This session will explore the transportation of technology, culture
and ideas to Australasia, and the often divergent means in which
life and culture played out on this side of the world.
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Poster Session |
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Session Organisers: |
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Peta
Knott |
This session will invite
Posters relevant to overall conference theme and or sessions above
to present in this forum.
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