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Theses

Name

Award

Title of Thesis

Year

Abstract

Leila McAdam

PhD

Beads and ornaments in Australian museum collections

2009

 

Todd Craig

PhD

Molecular Taphonomy:  An experimental and empirical study of archaeological ceramic residues.

2008

Available

Kimberlee

Newman

Bachelor of Archaeology Honours

What's the Point? The TCSA of projectile points - an Australian perspective.

2008

Available

Megan M. Tehnas

Honours

Lost Soles.  Accounting for the presence and distribution of artefacts at St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia.

2007

Available

Rosalind

James

PhD

Environmental boundaries in the Central Sydney Basin during the mid-to-late-Holocene.

2006

Available

Michael

Maccheroni

PhD

The Archaeology of Globalisation and mainland South East Asia, 1570-1640 AD.

2006

Available

Sarah Martin

PhD

Inscribing the plains: Constructed, conceptualised and socialized landscapes of the Hay Plain, South Eastern Australia.

2006

Available

Judith Woods

Honours

An archaeological investigation into the processing of Macrozamia moorei seeds.

2006

 

Mark Moore

PhD

The design space of lithic technology

2005

Available

Dominic Brady

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Australian Aboriginal Body Scarification and Drainage Basins.  Considering the relationship between regional groupings of people and the natural unit, the drainage basin, from a material culture perspective.

2005

Available

DeborahVale

PhD

Shell Middens and Sea-Levels: Inferring environmental change from archaeological marine faunal assemblages.

2004

 

Todd Craig

Bachelor of Arts Honours

High Pressure liquid chromatography mass spectrometry of lipid residues from archaeological ceramics.

2004

Available

Lodie Webster

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Window Into The Past:  Shift in mortuary monument preferences: Social status and Nowra general cemetery.

2004

Available

Trudy White

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Settlement patterns of two 19th century central Queensland sugar plantations.  An investigation of physical landscapes of indentured labour and slavery.

2004

Available

June Ross

PhD

Rock art, Ritual and relationships: An archaeological analysis of rock art from the central Australian arid zone.

2003

Available

James Knight

PhD

Testing Tindale Tribes: A reassessment of Tindale's work on the Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, with reference to the written records of the southeast of south Australia.

2003

Available

Robert Theunissen

PhD

Agate and carnelian beads and the dynamics of social complexity in Iron Age mainland Southeast Asia.

2003

Available

Malcolm Ridges

PhD

Numerous indications: The archaeology of regional hunter-gatherer behaviour in northwest central Queensland, Australia.

2003

Available

Lisa H. Abra

Bachelor of Arts Honours

The Breath of Death - A study in variation in blowpipes from south East Asia.

2003

Available

Ray H. Christison

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Evidence of the cultural heritage of coal mining communities in museum collections.

2003

Available

Dale Hancock

Bachelor of Arts Honours

An investigation of a former Permangk Aboriginal activity area in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

2002

Available

Patricia Lindsell

PhD

Bergmann, Allen and Birdsell: Patterns of ecogeographic adaptation in Aboriginal Australians

2001

Available

Alice Buhrich

Honours

Monitoring visitor behaviour at the remote rock art site of Split Rock, Laura.

2001

Available

Penny McCardie

Honours

The Aboriginal bark burial mortuary practice of the Central Queensland Highlands.

2001

Available

Jennifer Swain

Honours

Buying back the old farm.  An Interdisciplinary look at the movement of Gumbaingirr Aboriginal people of Corindi, Mid-North Coast NSW 1890-1921.

2000

Available

Alice Gorman

PhD

The archaeology of body modification: The identification of symbolic behaviour through usewear and residues on flaked stone tools

2000

 

Lisa-Maree Hardy

Honours

Litigation or Mitigation?  Legislative penalties and the protection of indigenous Heritage: A case study of Section 90 of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974

2000

 

Graham Knuckey

PhD

Variation in the anterior mandible of Homo sapiens sapiens

2000

Available

Michael Kelly

Honours

Burning Issues: A critical evaluation of prehistoric fishery models of the Moreton region.

2000

 

Chris Mattner

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Salt Lakes and Aboriginal Settlement: A case study at Lake Carey, southeast Western Australia.

2000

 

Ann-Maria

Hart

Bachelor of Arts Honours

An Environmental paradigm for the characteristics of archaeological ceramics. A case study using particle shape analysis of historic stoneware from northern Thailand.

1999

Available

Michael Maccheroni

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Archaeological and Ecological Potential of Phytoliths from Teeth: Qualitative and quantitative assessment using a modern macropod population from the New England Tablelands.

1999

Available

Allan Russell

Bachelor of Arts Honours

The Hundred Years War:  The problem of Modern Human Origins.

1999

Available

Brad Smith

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Mobile Traders or Impoverished Harvesters: A re-evaluation of eastern-wares from ‘Macassan" trepanging sites in northern Australia.

1999

Available

Gary Stone

Bachelor of Arts Honours

The Archaeology of Fishing: Interpreting the evidence for the trepang industry in the north Kimberley

1999

 

Tular Sudarmadi

Masters in Arts Honours

An ethnoarchaeological study of Ngadha, a megalithic culture in central Flores, Indonesia.

1999

Available

Allan R Hutchins

Honours

Retreat to Tinga Tingana.

1998

 

Deborah Vale

Honours

Go Fish:  Using archaeological fishbone to investigate the enigmatic stone structure at Arrawarra beach, NSW.

1998

 

Sue Anderson

Masters in Arts Honours

Aboriginal archaeology, history and oral history at Swan Reach Mission, South Australia.

1997

 

 Tim Hill  

Bachelor of Arts Honours

 Re-Modelling Aboriginal Resource use: A resource use model for the 'Colorado' property, Yetman N.S.W based on ecological theory and a semi-qualified estimate of plant resource distribution.  1997  

June Ross

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Painted Relationships: An archaeological analysis of a distinctive anthropomorphic rock art motif in northwest central Queensland

1997

Available

Heather Burke

PhD

Investments of meaning: An archaeology of style, social identity, capitalism and ideology in a nineteenth century Australian town

1996

 

Rod Cliff

PhD

Axe-making and axe distribution from two quarries in East Australia.

1996

 

Patrick Gaynor

Masters in Research

The importance of quartz in stone artefacts assemblages:  A technological analysis of five Aboriginal sites of the Coonabarabran/Warrumbungle region.

1996

 

Warwick Pearson

PhD

Water power in a dry continent: The transfer of watermill technology from Britain to Australia in the 19th century.

1995

 

Ray Fife

Honours

An archaeological perspective of traditional aboriginal ceremonial sites of south-eastern Australia.

1995

 

Malcolm Ridges

Honours

An investigation into the Aboriginal rock art paintings of the Selwyn Ranges region in northwest Queensland.

1995

 

Claire Smith

PhD

Situating Style:  An ethnoarchaeological study of social and material context in an Australian Aboriginal artistic system.

1994

Available

Ken Kippen

Bachelor of Arts Honours

An analysis of stone artefacts from twelve open scatters in the Selwyn range, northwest central Queensland.

1992

Available

Andrew Piper

Masters in Research

Butchery analysis in Australian historical archaeology

1991

 

Stephen Collier

PhD

Sexual dimorphism and economy in modern human populations

1990

Available

Denis Donlon

PhD

The value of postcranial nonmetric variation in studies of global populations of modern Homo sapiens

1990

Available

Luke Godwin

PhD

Inside information: Settlement and alliance in the late Holocene of northeastern New South Wales

1990

 

Mike Smith

PhD

The pattern and timing of prehistoric settlement in central Australia.

1988

Available

Laurajane Smith

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Whats in the size of a Macropod? A study of variance in prehistoric pictures from the Mangrove Creek area.

1983

Available

Carol Frances

Williams

Bachelor of Arts Honours

Vacuuming Mt Yarrowyck: A comprehensive survey of one stratified zone of the New England Tablelands.

1980

Available

Sharon

Sullivan

Master of Arts Honours

The traditional culture of the Aborigines of north western New South Wales.

1970

Available