PostGraduate Theses

Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology

Litt.B.	Brice, G.	1965	The interpretation of the art of the hunter societies of Europe and Australia.
Litt.B.	Fallins, F.	1968	Central and South Eastern Europe from the Neolithic to the beginning of the early Bronze Age.
Litt.B.	Griffiths, R.	1972	A discussion of the Hand Motif in Australian Aboriginal arts.
Litt.B.	Piper, A.	1976	Ocean beach to mountain top: The Tweed Valley, N.S.W.
Litt.B.	Caley, C.	1983	Angling for old bones: new thoughts on Olduvai Gorge.
M.Litt.	Gillespie, D.	1985	Imarlkba. Historical archaeology and a fossicking camp site in the top.
M.Litt.	Edmonds, V.	1986	Subtropical Rainforest: archaeological evidence of Aboriginal use in the border ranges S.E. Queensland.
M.Litt.	Cooper, C.	1988	Animals can talk we just need to listen. An investigation into the hunting activities of prehistoric Australian Aborigines as told by the recovered faunal assemblages from two archaeological sites near NSW, Australia.
M.Litt.	Collins, J.	1989	Drawing Patterns: an archaeological survey and analysis of Aboriginal rock art in the Clarence Region, Northern New South Wales.
M.Litt.	Elsegood, P.	1989	Hard work, hard times and hard labour: a study of the relationship between nutrition and fertility.
M.Litt.	Sonter, A.J.	1989	Aboriginal art on the North West Slopes of New South Wales.
M.Litt.	Jung, S.	1990	Chronological changes in stone artefact resource utilisation at Magnificent Gallery, S.E. Cape York Peninsula, Northern QLD.
M.Litt.	Keyte, D.	1991	Groupies in the cemetery: the influence of group affiliation upon cemetery monument style selection.
M.Litt.	Roberts, A.	1991	An analysis of mound formation at Milingimbi, N.T.
M.Litt.	Murphy, D.A.	1992	Plant taphonomy in rockshelters: a study of plant material in sandstone rockshelters near Coonabarabran, N.S.W.
M.Litt.	Bursill, L.W.	1993	Paintings, Engravings and Stencils (P.E.D.S.) of Southern Sydney Aboriginals
M.Litt.	David, M.	1993	Postcards from the edge: an analysis of tasks undertaken during the late Pleistocene at Devil's Lair, south-western Australia.
M.Litt.	Duncum, C.	1993	Less and less of an issue? the role of archaeology in cultural heritage significance assessment.
M.Litt.	Panitz, K.M.	1993	History from houses: structural analysis of three domestic buildings in the Logan Valley, South East Queensland, a case study.
M.Litt.	Nelson, L.	1994	Shell middens on Lake Macquarie.
M.Litt.	Allen, Mark	1995	In a writing unexpected'. The Landscape Archaeology of two Western New South Wales forests.
M.Litt.	Asha, Brian	1996	The Diagnosis of ruination processes in colonial brickwork at Lake Innes House.
M.Litt.	Anderson, S.	1997	Aboriginal Archaeology and Oral History at Swan Reach Mission, S.A.
M.Litt.	Blair, A.	1997	Aboriginal Art at Lofty Heights
M.Litt.	McConnochie, K	1998	The Archaeology of the Coongie Lakes Area.
M.Litt.	Smalldon, S.	1998
M.Litt.	Fitzgerald, C.	1999	Following the Leaders: Identifying and evaluating dimension of Classic Maya elite behaviour from Archaeological Assemblages.

B.A. HONS	Sullivan, S.	1964	The material culture of the Aborigines of the Richmond and Tweed Rivers of northern NSW at the time of first white settlement.
B.A. HONS	Belshaw, J.	1966	The economic basis of Aboriginal life in Northern NSW in the nineteenth century.
B.A. HONS	Brayshaw, H.C.	1966	Some Aspects of the material culture of the Aborigines of the Hunter Valley at the time of first white settlement in the area.
B.A. HONS	Harrison, B.	1966	The Myall Creek massacre and its significance in the controversy over the Aborigines during Australia's early squatting period.
B.A. HONS	Campbell,V.M.	1969	A field survey of shell middens of the Lower Macleay Valley, with reference to their potential and possible methods of investigation.
B.A. HONS	Dunton, J.	1969	Aspects of relations between Colonists and Aborigines in NSW from 1788-1838 (with special reference to the Sydney Gazette from 1803)
B.A. HONS	Sabine, N.	1970	An Ethnohistory of the Clarence Valley.
B.A. HONS	Lane, K.H.	1971	The Nambucca Aborigines at the time of the first white settlement. A study of their adaptation to an environment, as revealed by ethnohistorical sources.
B.A. HONS	Pierce, R	1971	The effects of Quatic foods on the diet and economy of the Aborigines on the north coast of NSW at the time of first settlement.
B.A. HONS	Wheatley, O.	1972	Vere Gordon Childe: A study of the concepts he employed for an historical interpretation of archaeological data.
B.A. HONS	Pearson, M.	1973	The MacIntyre Valley: Field archaeology and ethnohistory.
B.A. HONS	Yalden, P.	1973	The Bondaian culture in Eastern New South Wales - a study in Prehistoric assemblage variation.
B.A. HONS	Cubis, L.	1977	Aboriginal food and economies in N.E. N.S.W.
B.A. HONS	Piper, L.	1977	Subsistence economies on the southern plain of New Guinea.
B.A. HONS	Djekic, A.	1979	Keegierdoyn. The surface archaeology of an inland site.
B.A. HONS	Dwyer, L.	1979	A four site saga.
B.A. HONS	Jones, W.,	1979	Up the Creek: Hunter-gatherers in the Cooper Basin.
B.A. HONS	Martin, S.	1979	Mud, mussels and toes: The ecology and archaeology of the Narran area.
B.A. HONS	Callaghan, M	1980	An analysis of the Molluscan remains from the Macleay River Midden Sites.
B.A. HONS	Geering, K.	1980	An attempt to establish the seasonability of occupation of the Stockyard Site, Hunter Island.
B.A. HONS	Kelly, M.	1980	Stones...what use? A functional analysis of two stone assemblages from the Macleay River Valley.
B.A. HONS	O'Connor, S	1980	Bringing it all back home: an analysis of the vertebrate faunal remains from the Stockyard Site, Hunter Island, North West Tasmania.
B.A. HONS	Williams, C.	1980	Vacuuming Mt. Yarrowyck: A comprehensive survey of one stratified zone of the New England Tablelands.
B.A. HONS	Godwin, L.	1981	What you can do with 27,000 pieces of bone: A taphonomic study of vertebrate fauna from the Bridewater Caves South Australia.
B.A. HONS	Neal, R.A.	1981	Carlton Bluff: an analysis of the invertebrate fauna from a lower estuarine shell midden site, South East Tasmania.
B.A. HONS	Johnston, H.	1982	Testing a model: An analysis of vertebrate faunal remains from Warragarra Rockshelter: central Tasmania
B.A. HONS	Minnegal, M	1982	Dugong processing as an archaeological phenomenon.
B.A. HONS	Wojciechowski, C	1983	A bit of bundy: The Bundaberg engraving site.
B.A. HONS	Davis, S.	1983	Diet, disease and demography: Hunter gatherers in Arnhem Land.
B.A. HONS	Donlon, D.	1985	Australian Aboriginal tooth size clines: A reappraisal.
B.A. HONS	Freeman,S.	1985	Cultural differences between East and West. Viti Levu, Fiji.
B.A. HONS	Solomon, S.	1985	People and Other aggravations: Taphonomic research in Australia.
B.A. HONS	Sutton, S.	1985	Warragarra stone: a technological analysis of an assemblage of stone artefacts from central Tasmania.
B.A. HONS	Veitch, B.	1985	Burning bracken fern: a contribution to the ecology of the Aborigines of S.E. Australia.
B.A. HONS	Pearson, S.	1986	Botanical indicators in historical archaeology
B.A. HONS	Burke, H.	1987	Quarries above ground: Australian historial archaeology and the cultural remains of material.
B.A. HONS	Gaynor, P.	1987	Kawambarai Cave: An analysis of a Warrumbungle Stone Assemblage.
B.A. HONS	Tanks, G.	1987	Illusions of diffusions: the distribution of maritime technology along the N.E. Queensland coast.
B.A. HONS	Burke, C	1988	Faunal reflections of change and diversity: monitoring the effects of natural and cultural site formation processes on the composition of archaeological faunal assemblages. A case study from Boonah, Southeast Queensland.
B.A. HONS	Kaiser-Glass, Y.	1988	A metric analysis of transparent dentine as indicator of age in isolated human teeth.
B.A. HONS	Smith, C.	1989	Designing dreaming: testing the information exchange theory of style.
B.A. HONS	Wellfare, S.	1989	Inferring gender: an explanatory framework for discerning small scale social relations in Fisher Gatherer Hunter Archaeology.
B.A. HONS	Appleton, J.	1990	A survey strategy for the Western Slopes.
B.A. HONS	Cliff, R.	1990	Understanding trade in small scale societies.
B.A. HONS	Hutchet, B.	1990	Modelling and Australian Prehistory.
B.A. HONS	Pearson, W.	1990	Prehistoric Aboriginal land and resource use in SE Cape York Peninsula - a technological view.
B.A. HONS	Steel, N.	1990	Towards the archaeology of capital: assessing the relationship between archaeological visibility and levels of capital investment at Rocky River NSW and Baker's Creek Mine, Hillgrove NSW.
B.A. HONS	Armstrong, G.	1991	The Archaeology of Coal Mining: Site formation processes affecting coal mining sites in the Lithgow Valley, a case study.
B.A. HONS	Blackman, P.	1991	Ethnicity in Southeast Queensland: a case study.
B.A. HONS	Knuckey, G.	1991	Dispute settlement and community conflict in prehistoric Australian Aboriginal populations: skeletal evidence.
B.A. HONS	Lovell-Jones, C.	1991	Observer and Observed: a predicament of Australian Archaeology.
B.A. HONS	Porteous, F.	1991	Climate and Convention: the archaeology of Blue Mountains houses.
B.A. HONS	Dagg, L.	1992	Interpreting faunal remains: A taphonomic analysis of two late Holocene faunal assemblages from South East Cape York Peninsular.
B.A. HONS	Kippen, K.	1992	An analysis of Stone Artefacts from Twelve Open Scatters in the Selwyn Range, Northwest Central Queensland.
B.A. HONS	L'Oste-Brown, S.	1992	Getting organised: causes of stone artefact variability in South East Cape York Peninsula.
B.A. HONS	James, R.E.	1993	Stones, samples and the stories we tell.
B.A. HONS	Wall, C.F.	1993	A technological analysis of quartz artefact assemblages from six open sites in the Coonabarabran region, Northwest New South Wales.
B.Sc. HONS	Newman, P.	1994	Estimation of Australian Aboriginal stature from skeletal elements
B.A. HONS	Purcell, P.	1994	Searching for technological behaviour from organic residues on stone artefacts. A non-functional approach.
B.A. HONS	Scott, M.A.	1994	Status and the interior of New England domestic architecture.
B.A. HONS	Soar, N	1994	The 'Oliver Twists' of England: An examination of the secular change in stature between Australia and the United Kingdom
B.A. HONS	Draper, K.	1995	Taphonomy of Molluscs. An Investigation into the Differential Preservation of Shellfish Remains.
B.A. HONS	Fife, R.	1995	An archaeological perspective of Traditional Aboriginal Ceremonial sites of South-eastern Australia.
B.A. HONS	Leahy, J.	1995	Macropod Mortality Data: Implications for Archaeology, with special reference to Prehistoric Hunting Strategies.
B.A. HONS	Lindsell, P.	1995	The Distribution and Detection of Artificial Cranial Deformation.
B.A. HONS	Porter, Carl	1995	The Archaeology of Status: A Case Study from St Helena Island Prison Establishment, Moreton Bay, Australia.
B.A. HONS	Power, G. J.	1995	Politics, Legislation and Archaeology: A New South Wales Case Study.
B.Sc. HONS	Ridges, M.J.	1995	An Investigation into the Aboriginal Rock Art Paints of the Selwyn Ranges Region in North West Queensland.
B.A. HONS	Ruig, J. L.	1995	Collectors as Taphonomic Agents for the Archaeological Record.
B.A. HONS	Drury, T.	1997
B.A. HONS	Mitchell, C.	1997	Interpreting charcoal patches in open site archaeology; need we be stumped for an answer?
B.A. HONS	Hudson, S.	1997	Salisbury Axe Quarry: the acquisition, distribution and cross-exchange patterns from a local distribution site.
B.A. HONS	Bloxham, B	1998	Bones that lat scatter'd by: The spatial patterning of Faunal Remains at Petzke's Cave, Northern NSW.
B.A. HONS	Garnett, J.	1998
B.A. HONS	Galt-Smith, B.	1998	Motives for Motifs. Identifying aggregation and dispersion settlement patterns in the rock art assemblages of Central Australia.
B.A. HONS	Hill, T.	1998	Re-modelling Aboriginal resource use: A resource use model for the 'Colorado" property, Yetman, NSW based on ecological theory and semi-quantified estimate of plant resource distribution.
B.A. HONS	Kneipp, T.	1998	Assessing and addressing imprecision as a source of variation in the stone artefact raw material from Petke's Cave, Northern NSW.
B.A. HONS	Ross, J.	1998	Painted relationships: An archaeological analysis of a distinctive anthropoorphic rock art moifin northwest central Queensland.
B.A. HONS	Schmidt, N.	1998	The world economy and the arid pastoral industry of far western NSW: A study of capital investment in water management on the Mundi Mundi Pastoral Run.
B.A. HONS	Esteves, V.	1999	Unravel the gravel: A study of Hunter river mudstone and silcrete gravels, an archaeological perspective.
B.A. HONS	Hutchins, A.	1999	Retreat to Tinga Tinagana.
B.A. HONS	Ponchard, M.	1999	Wished into Being: The influence of sentiment for animals in the debate on the origins of language.
B.A. HONS	Vale, D.	1999	Go fish! Using archaeological fishbone to investigate the enigmatic stone structure at Arrawarra Beach, NSW.
B.A. HONS	Hardy, L-M.	2000	Litigation or Mitigation? Legislative penalties and the protection of indigenous heritage. A case study of section 90 of the National Parks and Widlife Act 1974.
B.A. HONS	Hart, A-M.	2000	An environmental paradigm for the characterisation of archaeological ceramics. A caes study using particle shape analysis of historic stonewares from Northern Thailand.
B.A. HONS	Maccheroni, M.	2000	Archaeological and ecological porential of phytoliths from teeth: Qualative and quantitive assessment using a modern maccropod population from the New England Tablelands.
B.A. HONS	Paddington, S.	2000
B.A. HONS	Russell, A.	2000	The hundred years war: the problem of modern human origins.
B.A. HONS	Smith, B	2000	Mobile Traders of impoverished harvesters: A re-evaluation of earthenwares from 'Macassan' trepanging sites in Northern Australia.
B.A. HONS	Stone, G.	2000	The archaeology of fishing: interpreting the evidence for the trepang industry in the North Kimberley
B.A. HONS	Thomas, A.	2000	Spit of the serpent: An ethnographic and scientific analysis of white pigments used in Wandjina rock art, Kimberleys, WA.
B.A. HONS	Kelly, M	2000	Burning issues: a critical evaluation of prehistoric fishery models of the Moreton Region.
B.A. HONS	Buhrich, A	2001	Monitoring visitor behaviour at the remote rock art site of Split Rock, Laura.
B.A. HONS	Hancock, D.	2001	An investigation of a former Peramangk Aboriginal activity area in the Adelaide Hills, S.A.
B.A. HONS	Durkin, J	2001	Queensland Aboriginal Shields: An analysis of regional variation in style.
B.A. HONS	McCardle, P.	2001	The Aboriginal bark burial mortuary practice of the Central Queensland Highlands.
B.A. HONS	McAdam, E.S.	2001	Boomerangs and Drainage Basins: Variation in Aboriginal material culture in the region between Lake Eyre and the Gulf of Carpenteria.
B.A. HONS	Swain, J.	2001	Buying back the olf farm: an interdisciplinary look at the movement of Gumbaingrir Aboriginal people of Corindi Mid-North Coast N.S.W. 1890-1920.
B.A. HONS	Haggis, D.P.	2002	The development of pottery in the Japanese Archipelago.
B.A. HONS	Abra, Lisa H	2003	The breath of death: a study of variation in blowpipes from Southeast Asia.
B.A. HONS	Russell-Green,C	2003	Enjoyment of Terror: an archaeological survey of a convict probation station in Tasmania.
B.A. HONS	Everest, K	2003	Sex Determination and Right-Left asymmetry of the humerus.
B.A. HONS	Craig, T	2004	High pressure liquid chromatography mass spectrometry of lipid residues from archaeological ceramics.
B.A. HONS	White, T	2004	Settlement patterns of two 19th century Central Quensland Sugar Plantations: An investigation of physical landscapes of indentured labour and slavery
B.A. HONS	Webster, L	2004	Window into the Past: Shifts in Mortuary monument preferences - Social status and Nowra general cenetery
MA	Sullivan, S.	1970	The traditional culture of Aborigines of north western NSW.
MA	Quinnell, M.C.	1976	Aboriginal rock art in Carnarvon Gorge.
MA	Latz, P.	1982	Bushfires and bushtucker: Aborigines and plants in Central Australia.
MA	Piper, A.	1991	Butchery analysis in Australian historical archaeology.
MA	Gaynor, P.	1997	The Importance of Quartz in Stone Artefact Assemblage: A Technological Analysis of Five Aboriginal Sites of the Coonabarabran/ Warrumbungle Region.
MA	Sudarmadi, T.	2000	An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Ngadha: A Megalithic Culture in Central Flores, Indonesia.
MA	Cullen, R	2001	Memetics and cultural virus theory as models of a neo-darwinian explanation of cultural evolution.
MA	Mattner, C.J.	2000	Salt Lakes & Aboriginal Settlement: a case study at Lake Carey, southeast Western Australia.
Ph.D.	McBryde, I.	1967	An archaeology survey of the New England Region, NSW.
Ph.D.	Smith, M.	1988	The pattern and timing of prehistoric settlement in Central Australia.
Ph.D.	Collier,S.	1991	Sexual Dimorphism and economy in modern human population.
Ph.D.	Donlon, D.	1992	The value of postcranial nonmetric variation in studies of global populations in modern Homo sapiens.
Ph.D.	Pearson, W.	1995	Water power in a dry continent: The transfer of watermill technology from Britain to Australia in the 19th century.
Ph.D.	Smith, C.	1996	Situating style: an ethnoarchaeological study of an Australian Aboriginal artistic system.
Ph.D.	Burke, H.	1997	Investments of Meaning: An Archaeology of Style, Social Identity, Capitalism and Ideology in a Nineteenth Century Australian Town.
Ph.D.	Cliff, R.	1998	Axe Making and Axe Distribution from Two Quarries in Eastern Australia.
Ph.D.	Cooper, C.	1998	Prehistoric Aboriginal Fauna Exploitation: The Evaluation of a Foraging Theory Model using GIS Analysis of Archaeological Faunal Remains.
Ph.D.	Knuckey, G.	2001	Variation in the anterior mandible of Homo sapiens sapiens
Ph.D.	Gorman, A.	2001	The archaeology of body modification: The indication of symbolic bahaviour through usewear and residues on flaked stone tools.
Ph.D.	Lindsell, P.	2001	Bergmann, Allen and Birdsell: Paterns of ecogeographic adaptation in boriginal Australians.
Ph.D.	Ross, J.	2003	Rock art, ritual and relationships: An archaeological analysis of rock art from the central Australian arid zone.

Ph.D.	Ridges, M	2003	Numerous indications. The archaeology of regional hunter-gatherer behaviour in northwest central Queensland Australia.
Ph.D.	Theunissen, R.G.	2003	Agate and Carnelian Beads and the Dynamics of Social Complexity in Iron Age Mainland Southrast Asia.