CAR Seminar Series: A tale of two caves, or, why was our species so successful at colonising new environments?
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There has been much recent discussion on the nature of 'behavioural modernity': how can it be defined? How can archaeologists recognise it? When, where, how and why did it develop? And is it, in case, a useful concept for us to apply to the archaeological record of Homo sapiens and contemporary…
CAR Seminar Series: How archaeological evidence bites back: scaffolding, critical distance and triangulation
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"In the mid-1950s a profoundly pessimistic discussion of "The Limitation of Inference in Archaeology" appeared in the (British) Archaeologocal Newsletter. The author, field archaeologist M. A. Smith, concluded that it is "a hopeless task" to attempt to attempt to move from one to the other "by…
A study of the animal remains from the sites of Con Co Ngau and Man Bac
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School of Archaeology and Anthropology PhD candidate Rebecca Jones' Thesis Proposal Review presentation: A study of the animal remains from the sites of Con Co Ngau and Man Bac: Identifying the Transition from hunting to Animal Management in the late Holocene of northern Vietnam The transition from…
The prehistory of Rossel Island, Milne Bay Province, PNG: Isolation and interaction in the Louisiade Archipelago
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Archaeological research was undertaken in 2011/12 on the isolated island of Rossel in the Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, PNG. The small population living on the island today speak a language that is unrelated to the languages spoken elsewhere in this vast island region. The complexities…
Digital Life
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Despite the ubiquity of smart phones in northeast Arnhem Land, Yolngu have not acquiesced to the idea that everything can—and should—be made available to cameras and the worldwide web. With an abiding sense of the potency of the invisible, Yolngu use digital media to materialize ancestral relations…