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  • 3.6 Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Cultivating, Populating and Feeding the Burhs in Anglo-Scandinavian England.

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    Victoria Ziegler, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

    https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/research-students/victoria-ziegler

    PhD Thesis: A study of urban trans-location in early medieval England: occupation identities in Saxon London 770-1020

     

    Publication:

    Victoria Ziegler (2019) 'From wic to burh: a new approach to the question of the development of Early Medieval London', Archaeological Journal, 176:2, 336-368, DOI:

    10.1080/00665983.2019.1573553
    To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2019.1573553

    During the ninth century the focus of occupation in Saxon London

    shifted eastwards from the Covent Garden area back to the former
    Roman city of Londinium. Combining detailed case studies with
    the results of correspondence analysis, this paper critically compares
    archaeological features and assemblages at sites dated c. AD
    770 to c. AD 850 in Middle Saxon Lundenwic with sites dated c. AD
    850 to c. AD 950 in Late Saxon Lundenburh. Differences in the
    archaeology of the two settlements are discussed. These distinctions
    reveal specific areas of discontinuity that strongly support
    current models of a hiatus between the decline of Lundenwic and
    renewed activity in Lundenburh.

     

    Prof. Helena Hamerow, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

    https://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/people/hamerow-helena#/

     

    Publication:

    HAMEROW, H. BOGAARD, A. CHARLES, M. FORSTER, E. HOLMES, M,. MCKERRACHER, M. NEIL, S. BRONK RAMSEY, C. STROUD, E. & THOMAS, R. 2020. ‘An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: A Case Study from Stafford, England, c. AD 800–1200’, European Journal of Archaeology 23 (4), 585–609.

    In much of Europe, the advent of low-input cereal farming regimes between c. AD 800 and 1200 enabled

    landowners—lords—to amass wealth by greatly expanding the amount of land under cultivation and
    exploiting the labour of others. Scientific analysis of plant remains and animal bones from archaeological
    contexts is generating the first direct evidence for the development of such low-input regimes. This article
    outlines the methods used by the FeedSax project to resolve key questions regarding the ‘cerealization’ of
    the medieval countryside and presents preliminary results using the town of Stafford as a worked example.
    These indicate an increase in the scale of cultivation in the Mid-Saxon period, while the Late Saxon
    period saw a shift to a low-input cultivation regime and probably an expansion onto heavier soils. Crop
    rotation appears to have been practised from at least the mid-tenth century.

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

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    46 min
  • 3.5 Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: the Earliest Scandinavian Expansion

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    Aina Heen Pettersen, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/aina.pettersen

    PhD Thesis: Farin Vestir: Perspectives on the chronology, biography and mutability of Insular objects in Viking-Age Norway (c. AD 770/800-950).

     

    Publication:

    Pettersen, Aina Margrethe Heen 2019. The Earliest Wave of Viking Activity? The Norwegian Evidence Revisited. European Journal of Archaeology 22 (4), 523–541

    This article discusses the chronology and nature of the earliest Viking activity, based on a group of early

    burials from Norway containing Insular metalwork. By focusing on the geographical distribution of this
    material and applying the concept of locational and social knowledge, the importance of establishing
    cognitive landscapes to facilitate the Viking expansion is highlighted. It is argued that the first recorded
    Viking attacks were only possible after a phase in which Norse seafarers had acquired the necessarily
    level of a priori environmental knowledge needed to move in new seascapes and coastal environments.
    This interaction model opens the possibility that some of the early Insular finds from Norway may
    represent pre-Lindisfarne exploration voyages, carried out by seafarers along the sailing route of
    Nordvegr.

     

     

    Andreas Hennius, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden.

    https://www.arkeologi.uu.se/staff/Presentations/andreas-hennius_en/

    Dr. John Ljungkvist, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden.

    https://www.arkeologi.uu.se/staff/Presentations/john-ljungkvist-en/

     

    Publication:

    Hennius. A, Gustavsson, R. Ljungkvist, J. & Spindler, L. 2018. Whalebone Gaming Pieces: Aspects of Marine Mammal Exploitation in Vendel and Viking Age Scandinavia. European Journal of Archaeology 21 (4), 612–631.

    Discussions of pre-Viking trade and production have for many decades focused on products made of

    precious metals, glass and, to some degree, iron. This is hardly surprising considering the difficulties in
    finding and provenancing products made of organic matter. In this article we examine gaming pieces
    made from bone and antler, which are not unusual in Scandinavian burials in the Vendel and Viking
    period (c. AD 550–1050). A special emphasis is placed on whalebone pieces that appear to dominate
    after around AD 550, signalling a large-scale production and exploitation of North Atlantic whale products.
    In combination with other goods such as bear furs, birds of prey, and an increased iron and tar
    production, whalebone products are part of an intensified large-scale outland exploitation and indicate
    strong, pre-urban trading routes across Scandinavia and Europe some 200 years before the Viking
    period and well before the age of the emporia.

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

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    38 min
  • 3.4 Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries - kinship, communities and identities with Duncan Sayer

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    Prof. Duncan Sayer, University of Central Lancashire

    https://www.uclan.ac.uk/staff_profiles/dr_duncan_sayer.php

    http://www.ribchesterrevisted.uk/

     

    Open Access Publication:

    Sayer, D. 2020. Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity. Manchester University Press.

    https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526153845/9781526153845.xml

    Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are well-known because of their rich grave goods, but this wealth can obscure their importance as local phenomena and the product of pluralistic multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and some Merovingian cemeteries and aims to understand them using a multi-dimensional methodology. The performance of mortuary drama was a physical communication and so needed syntax and semantics. This local knowledge was used to negotiate the arrangement of cemetery spaces and to construct the stories that were told within them. For some families the emphasis of a mortuary ritual was on reinforcing and reproducing family narratives, but this was only one technique used to arrange cemetery space. This book offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistic perspective. Each chapter builds on the last, using visual aesthetics, leitmotifs, spatial statistics, grave orientation, density of burial, mortuary ritual, grave goods, grave robbing, barrows, integral structures, skeletal trauma, stature, gender and age to build a detailed picture of complex mortuary spaces. This approach places community at the forefront of interpretation because people used and reused cemetery spaces and these people chose to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased because of their own attitudes, lifeways and lived experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will also be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social differentiation because it proposes a way to move beyond grave goods in the discussion of complex social identities. 

    eISBN: 9781526153845

    Online Publication Date: 03 Dec 2020

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

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    32 min
  • 3.3 Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Metal Smiths, Kingship, and Gender

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    Dr. Duncan W. Wright, Newcastle University.

    https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/duncanwright.html

     

    Publication:

    Duncan W Wright (2019) Crafters of Kingship: Smiths, Elite Power, and Gender in Early Medieval Europe, Medieval Archaeology, 63:2, 271-297, DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1670922

    IN THE EARLIEST CENTURIES of the Middle Ages, skilled metalsmiths were greatly valued by

    cult leaders who required impressive objects to maintain social links and the loyalty of their retainers.
    Despite their clear importance, smiths were peripheral characters operating on the fringes of elite communities.
    Such treatment may reflect an attempt to limit the influence of metalworkers, whose craft was seen
    as supernatural and who themselves were probably spiritual figureheads; archaeological evidence associates
    smiths and their tools in symbolic processes of creation and destruction, not only of objects but also
    of buildings and monuments. The Church clearly appropriated these indigenous practices, although conversion
    eventually saw the pre-eminence of the sacred smith and their practice wane. Anthropological
    study provides numerous comparators for skilled crafters acting as supernatural leaders, and also suggests
    that as part of their marginal identity, smiths may have been perceived as a distinct gender.

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

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    23 min
  • 3.2 Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Monumental Landscapes, Visibility and Control.

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    Dr. Andy Seaman, Canterbury Christ Church University.

    https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/school-of-humanities/Staff/Profile.aspx?staff=caf3b7084f35e566

     

    Leo Sucharyna Thomas, University of Ediburgh.

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leo_Sucharyna_Thomas

     

    Publication:

    ANDY SEAMAN AND LEO SUCHARYNA THOMAS. 'Hillforts and Power in the British Post-Roman West: A GIS Analysis of Dinas Powys', European Journal of Archaeology 23 (4) 2020, 547–566,  

    The (re)occupation of hillforts was a distinctive feature of post-Roman Europe in the fifth to seventh

    centuries AD. In western and northern Britain, hillforts are interpreted as power centres associated with
    militarized elites, but research has paid less attention to their landscape context, hence we know little
    about the factors that influenced their siting and how this facilitated elite power. Geographic
    Information Systems (GIS) provide opportunities for landscape research, but are constrained by limitations
    of source data and the difficulty of defining appropriate parameters for analysis. This article presents
    a new methodology that combines data processing and analytical functions in GIS with techniques
    and principles drawn from ‘traditional’ landscape archaeology. A case study, focused on Dinas Powys,
    suggests that the strategic siting of this hillfort facilitated control over the landscape and has wider
    implications for our understanding of patterns of power in post-Roman Britain.
    Keywords: hillforts, power, post-Roman Britain, GIS, viewsheds, least-cost paths

     

    Dr. Michelle Comber, University of Ireland Galway.

    https://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/geography-and-archaeology/michellecomber/#

     

    Publication:

    Michelle Comber (2019) Square Ringforts? A Contribution to the Identification of ‘Ringfort’ Types, Medieval Archaeology 63:1, 128-153,  

    ONGOING DISCUSSIONS of the monuments commonly referred to as ‘ ringforts’ in Ireland include

    the definition and investigation of specific types of these enclosures. Rectilinear, or subsquare, enclosures
    comprise one such type, with examples identifiable in the well-preserved archaeological landscape of the
    Burren (Co Clare) in western Ireland. It is also possible to extend such identification into the counties of
    the western seaboard, from Co Cork in the south to Co Donegal in the north. Questions of chronology,
    function, status, and cultural identity are addressed. Although a measure of variation may exist within
    the category of rectilinear enclosures, there is some uniformity of morphology and chronology and, perhaps, function.

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

    So, if you would like to hear seasons 4, 5 and more, then you might like to become a Patron of the show. Just click the Patron button:

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    39 min
  • 3.1 Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Grave Goods, Identities and Personhood.

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    Dr. Emma Brownlee, Girton College, Cambridge.

    https://cambridge.academia.edu/EmmaBrownlee

     

    Publications:

    Emma Brownlee. (2020) 'The Dead and their Possessions: The Declining Agency of the Cadaver in Early Medieval Europe', European Journal of Archaeology 23 (3) 2020, 406–427.

    Brownlee, E. Connectivity and Funerary Change in Early Medieval Europe. Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.51984.
     
    Between the sixth and eighth centuries AD, the practice of furnished burial was widely abandoned in
    favour of a much more standardized, unfurnished rite. This article examines that transition by considering
    the personhood and agency of the corpse, the different ways bonds of possession can form between
    people and objects, and what happens to those bonds at death. By analysing changing grave good use
    across western Europe, combined with an in-depth analysis of the Alamannic cemetery of Pleidelsheim,
    and historical evidence for perceptions of the corpse, the author argues that the change in grave good use
    marks a fundamental change in the perception of corpses.
    Keywords: early medieval, personhood, cadaver, funerary practices, grave goods, possession.
     
     
    Dr. Michèle Hayeur Smith, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.
    https://hma.brown.edu/
    https://northernwomen.org/project-2/ 
     
    Kevin Philbrook Smith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.
    https://hma.brown.edu/
     
    Prof. Karin M. Frei, National Museum of Denmark.
    https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/research/research-projects/tales-of-bronze-age-women-tales-of-bronze-age-people/research-team/karin-margarita-frei/
     
    Publications:

    MICHÈLE HAYEUR SMITH, KEVIN P SMITH & KARIN M FREI (2019). ‘Tangled up in Blue’: The Death, Dress and Identity of an Early Viking-Age Female Settler from Ketilsstaðir, Iceland, Medieval Archaeology, 63:1, 95-127, 

    IN 1938, a woman’s burial was uncovered by road builders at Ketilsstaðir in north-eastern Iceland.

    Recently, her physical remains and associated funerary goods were re-examined by an international, interdisciplinary
    team and formed the basis for an exhibition at the National Museum of Iceland in 2015.
    This paper focuses on the items of dress that accompanied the woman in order to gain insights into the
    ways her cultural identity was expressed at the time of her death. Here we explore the roles played by
    material culture in signaling her identity, and the technologies and trade networks through which she was
    connected, visually, to Scandinavia, the British Isles, and the Viking world at large.

     

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

    So, if you would like to hear seasons 3, 4, 5 and more, then you might like to become a Patron of the show. Just click the Patron button:

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    45 min
  • 3.0 Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe: Welcome to Season 3.
    Thanks for listening to Foreign Countries: conversations in archaeology with me, Ash Lenton.
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    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.
    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.
    If you are a researcher, a teacher or a student of archaeology, there is a reading list on the website to accompany the conversations. And there are links to follow for more information.
     
    Season 3 - Archaeology of Early Medieval Europe guests: 
    Dr. Emma Brownlee, Dr. Michelle Comber, Prof. Helena Hamerow, Assoc. Prof. Sue Harrington, Andreas Hennius, Dr. John Ljundkvist, Dr. Aina Pettersen, Dr. Michele Hayeur Smith,  Dr. Andy Seaman, Kevin P. Smith, Dr. Duncan Sayer, and Dr. Duncan W. Wright.
    The themes are: Grave Goods, Identities and Personhood;  Monumental Landscapes, Visibility and Control; Scientific Analysis and Cultural Change; the Scandinavian Expansion; Power and Elite Identities; Kinship, Community and Identity; plus a few more.
    4 min
  • 2.6 Innovative Research in Australia: Working Class Archaeology in Tasmania

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    Pamela Chauvel, University of Sydney.

    https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Pamela-Chauvel-2169341354

     

    Dr. James L. Flexner, University of Sydney. 

    https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/james-flexner.html

     

    Publication:

    Chauvel, P., Flexner, J. (2020). Mapping Difference in the "Uniform" Workers' cottages of Maria Island, Tasmania. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 24(4), 902-919. [More Information]

    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, company towns often provided

    housing for workers within a system of benevolent paternalism. This paper examines a
    set of workers’ cottages known as “the Twelve Apostles” on Maria Island, Tasmania.
    The archaeology reveals differences between the standardized, company-built houses,
    providing evidence that the residents’ responses often varied in ways that were not
    officially expected or sanctioned by the company. People individualized their houses in
    ways that reflect their everyday routines and rituals, and demonstrate how they made these houses into homes.
    Keywords Maria Island . Tasmania . Household archaeology. Capitalism. Paternalism.

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

    So, if you would like to hear seasons 3, 4, 5 and more, then you might like to become a Patron of the show. Just click the Patron button:

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    25 min
  • 2.5 Innovative Research in Australia: Indigenous Heritage & Community Archaeology with Dave Johnston

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    Dave Johnston, Australian Indigenous Archaeologists' Association

    https://www.anu.edu.au/alumni/our-alumni/spotlight/david-johnston

    https://www.foxtel.com.au/whats-on/foxtel-insider/latest-news/coast-australia-s4.html

    When David Johnston was a boy, he keenly explored the caves near his home, leading his mother to suggest he might become an archaeologist. Later, he became one of the first Indigenous Australians to gain a degree in archaeology, graduating from ANU with Honours and completing a Master degree in London.

    Conserving the nation's Aboriginal heritage is Dave's passion. As a consultant archaeologist for 27 years, he has worked on more than 2,000 heritage projects across eastern Australia from Cape York to Point Nepean.

    In 2014, he was awarded the Sharon Sullivan National Heritage award for his outstanding contribution to the Indigenous heritage environment and his continuing influence on practice.

    Dave has had a remarkable career and is recognised as a world leader in the field of Australian Indigenous archaeology.

    He has made important contributions to the field and its development at Australian universities as well as working to ensure an Indigenous perspective and voice in the study and teaching of Australian archaeology.

    His contributions have been recognised internationally. He was involved in the development of a code of ethics for the World Archaeological Congress and also drove the adoption of a code of ethics by the Australian Archaeological Association.

    He was instrumental in the development of the Australian Government's guidelines for Indigenous heritage and was a member of the AIATSIS Research Ethics Committee that developed the Guidelines for Ethical Research in Australian Indigenous Studies.

    Dave has been active at ANU since he graduated, most recently being the Founding Chair of the ANU Indigenous Alumni Network, which he and Indigenous Alumni members established in 2016.

    He delivers annual guest lectures and co-ordinates two to three local community-run archaeological site visits a year for the Archaeology School as well as guest lecturing for two other ANU schools.

    He has been a board member of the University's Aboriginal History Journal for 19 years and has been a long-time supporter of the Tjabal Centre, being one of its Foundation students.

     

     

    This is a podcast about new and innovative research in archaeology.

    Each episode I talk with pioneering and influential archaeologists about their journal papers, books and research projects.

    Season 1 is all about the latest research into the Archaeology of the Roman West.

    Season 2 is on Innovative Research in Australia.

    Season 3 is on Early Medieval Europe.

    Future Seasons:  Well, I'm open to suggestions!  

    Medieval Europe, Osteoarchaeology, Mesoamerica, Pacific Archaeology, Prehistoric Burials, Post-Medieval, Scientific Techniques, South-east Asia, Bronze Age Monuments. You tell me!

    So, if you would like to hear seasons 3, 4, 5 and more, then you might like to become a Patron of the show. Just click the Patron button:

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    25 min
  • 2.4 Innovative Research in Australia: Convicts and Quarantine in Colonial Australia

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    Prof. Eleanor Casella, University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/humanities#history-and-classics

    https://www.utas.edu.au/arts-law-education/study/convict-archaeology 

    https://utas.academia.edu/EleanorCasella

     

    Publications:

    Casella, E. C. 2002. Archaeology of the Ross Female Factory: Female Incarceration in Van Diemen's Land, Australia. Launceston, Tasmania : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.

    Casella, E. C. 2016. 'Horizons beyond the Perimeter Wall: Relational Materiality, Institutional Confinement, and the Archaeology of Being Global', Historical Archaeology 50(3) 127-143.

    As historical archaeologists, how might we begin to unpick the complex material webs of trades, migrations, and technologies that constitute globalization? How should we simultaneously understand the local and transnational meanings of our study sites? Through examples based around the 19th-century transportation of British felons to the Australian penal colonies, this article considers how recent work in relational theory offers fresh directions for exploring how the process of “being global” enmeshes humans, artifacts, and landscapes into ever-wider meshworks of connection and significance. It suggests that by traveling along the dynamic awful lines of globalization from the inside out, we archaeologists can consider not only what alternatives could have been, but what might be in our future.

     

    Dr. Peta Longhurst, University of Sydney Alumna.

    https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Peta-Longhurst-2112990062 

     

    Publications:

    Longhurst, P. 2018. 'Contagious objects: artefacts of disease transmission and control at North Head Quarantine Station, Australia', World Archaeology, 50:3, 512-529.

    https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/17906 

    From 1828 to 1984, North Head Quarantine Station was the first port of call

    for many immigrants seeking a new life in Australia. The institution was
    intended to confine disease, via the bodies and objects that conveyed it,
    and prevent it from spreading throughout the Sydney populace. Despite
    being a public health institution, an initial functional analysis found that
    only a small subset of artefacts associated with the site were medical in
    nature. This article draws on the assemblage of North Head to consider
    how the material culture of quarantine extends beyond medical instruments.
    By re-evaluating the assemblage through a disease-centred, ‘epidemiological’
    lens, the author demonstrates how disease permeates throughout the quarantine
    assemblage, enmeshing artefacts, bodies and contagions within a
    complex web of relations.

     

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