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This is a list of all Archaeology & Palaeoanthropology theses completed at the University of New England.  We do not have a copy of all of these theses.  Those that have a copy of the abstract available are held in our thesis library.  Please contact Melissa Chappell or Kim Newman if you would like access to the library.

 

Name

Award

Title of Thesis

Year

Abstract

Peter O'Donohue Bachelor of Arts Honours Limits of control: The archaeology of socio-political communities on the rural margins - a case study from Australia 2011
Jesse Walker Bachelor of Arts Honours PXRF and Earthenware Ceramics: an investigation into the use of PXRF measurements of elements to categorise Anatolian Iron Age ceramics. 2011
Genevieve Palm Bachelor of Arts Honours Evaluation of An analysis of surface artefact assemblages, Asgard Swamp and environs, Upper Blue Mountains, NSW, from a technological organisation perspective, by Genevieve Palm 2011
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
Peter O'Donohue Master of Arts The Enigmatic Chinese Water Race: Nineteenth Century applied hydrology at the periphery of the Rocky River goldfield 2007
Megan M. Tehnas Bachelor of Arts 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
Deborah Vale 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
K. Everest Bachelor of Arts Honours Sex Determination and Right-Left asymmetry of the humerus 2003
C. Russell-Green Bachelor of Arts Honours Enjoyment of Terror: an archaeological survey of a convict probation station in Tasmania 2003
J. Durkin Bachelor of Arts Honours Queensland Aboriginal Shields: An analysis of regional variation in style 2002
Dale Hancock Bachelor of Arts Honours An investigation of a former Permangk Aboriginal activity area in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia 2002 Available
D. P. Haggis Bachelor of Arts Honours The development of pottery in the Japanese Archipelago 2002
P. McCardle Bachelor of Arts Honours The Aboriginal bark burial mortuary practice of the Central Queensland Highlands 2002
E.S McAdams Bachelor of Arts Honours Boomerangs and Drainage Basins: Variation in Aboriginal material culture in the region between Lake Eyre and the Gulf of Carpenteria 2002
Patricia Lindsell PhD Bergmann, Allen and Birdsell: Patterns of ecogeographic adaptation in Aboriginal Australians 2001 Available
R. Cullen Master of Arts Memetics and cultural virus theory as models of a neo-darwinian explanation of cultural evolution 2001
Alice Buhrich Bachelor of Arts 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
Alice Gorman PhD The archaeology of body modification: The identification of symbolic behaviour through usewear and residues on flaked stone tools 2000
Graham Knuckey PhD Variation in the anterior mandible of Homo sapiens sapiens 2000 Available
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
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
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
A. Thomas Bachelor of Arts Honours Spit of the serpent: An ethnographic and scientific analysis of white pigments used in Wandjina rock art, Kimberleys, WA 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
S. Paddington Bachelor of Arts Honours 1999
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
C. Fitzgerald Masters in Arts Honours Following the Leaders: Identifying and evaluating dimension of Classic Maya elite behaviour from Archaeological Assemblages. 1999
R. Cliff PhD Axe Making and Axe Distribution from Two Quarries in Eastern Australia 1998
C. Cooper PhD Prehistoric Aboriginal Fauna Exploitation: The Evaluation of a Foraging Theory Model using GIS Analysis of Archaeological Faunal Remains 1998
K. McConnochie Masters in Arts Honours The Archaeology of the Coongie Lakes Area. 1998
S. Smalldon Masters in Arts Honours 1998
B. Bloxham Bachelor of Arts Honours Bones that lat scatter'd by: The spatial patterning of Faunal Remains at Petzke's Cave, Northern NSW 1998
V. Esteves Bachelor of Arts Honours Unravel the gravel: A study of Hunter river mudstone and silcrete gravels, an archaeological perspective 1998
J. Garnett Bachelor of Arts Honours 1998
B. Galt-Smith Bachelor of Arts Honours Motives for Motifs. Identifying aggregation and dispersion settlement patterns in the rock art assemblages of Central Australia 1998
Allan R Hutchins Bachelor of Arts Honours Retreat to Tinga Tingana 1998
T. Kneipp Bachelor of Arts Honours Assessing and addressing imprecision as a source of variation in the stone artefact raw material from Petke's Cave, Northern NSW 1998
M. Ponchard Bachelor of Arts Honours Wished into Being: The influence of sentiment for animals in the debate on the origins of language 1998
N. Schmidt Bachelor of Arts Honours 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 1998
Deborah Vale Bachelor of Arts Honours Go Fish:  Using archaeological fishbone to investigate the enigmatic stone structure at Arrawarra beach, NSW. 1998
P. Gaynor Masters of Arts The Importance of Quartz in Stone Artefact Assemblage: A Technological Analysis of Five Aboriginal Sites of the Coonabarabran/ Warrumbungle Region 1997
Sue Anderson Masters in Arts Honours Aboriginal archaeology, history and oral history at Swan Reach Mission, South Australia. 1997
A. Blair Masters in Arts Honours Aboriginal Art at Lofty Heights 1997
C. Mitchell Bachelor of Arts Honours Interpreting charcoal patches in open site archaeology; need we be stumped for an answer? 1997
S. Hudson Bachelor of Arts Honours Salisbury Axe Quarry: the acquisition, distribution and cross-exchange patterns from a local distribution site 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
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
Brian Asha Master of Litterature The diagnosis of ruination processes in colonial brickwork at Lake Innes House. 1996
C. Smith PhD Situating style: an ethnoarchaeological study of an Australian Aboriginal artistic system 1995
Warwick Pearson PhD Water power in a dry continent: The transfer of watermill technology from Britain to Australia in the 19th century. 1995
Mark Allen Master of Litterature In a writing unexpected'. The Landscape Archaeology of two Western New South Wales forests. 1995
Ray Fife Bachelor of Arts Honours An archaeological perspective of traditional aboriginal ceremonial sites of south-eastern Australia. 1995
K. Draper Bachelor of Arts Honours Taphonomy of Molluscs. An Investigation into the Differential Preservation of Shellfish Remains 1995
J. Leahy Bachelor of Arts Honours Macropod Mortality Data: Implications for Archaeology, with special reference to Prehistoric Hunting Strategies 1995
P. Lindsell Bachelor of Arts Honours The Distribution and Detection of Artificial Cranial Deformation 1995
Carl Porter Bachelor of Arts Honours The Archaeology of Status: A Case Study from St Helena Island Prison Establishment, Moreton Bay, Australia 1995
J. G. Power Bachelor of Arts Honours Politics, Legislation and Archaeology: A New South Wales Case Study 1995
Malcolm Ridges Bachelor of Arts Honours An investigation into the Aboriginal rock art paintings of the Selwyn Ranges region in northwest Queensland. 1995
L. J. Ruig Bachelor of Arts Honours Collectors as Taphonomic Agents for the Archaeological Record. 1995
Claire Smith PhD Situating Style:  An ethnoarchaeological study of social and material context in an Australian Aboriginal artistic system. 1994 Available
L. Nelson Master of Litterature Shell middens on Lake Macquarie 1994
P. Newman Bachelor of Arts Honours Estimation of Australian Aboriginal stature from skeletal elements 1994
P. Purcell Bachelor of Arts Honours Searching for technological behaviour from organic residues on stone artefacts. A non-functional approach 1994
M. A. Scott Bachelor of Arts Honours Status and the interior of New England domestic architecture 1994
N. Soar Bachelor of Arts Honours The 'Oliver Twists' of England: An examination of the secular change in stature between Australia and the United Kingdom 1994
K. M. Panitz Master of Litterature History from houses: structural analysis of three domestic buildings in the Logan Valley, South East Queensland, a case study. 1993
C. Duncum Master of Litterature Less and less of an issue? the role of archaeology in cultural heritage significance assessment. 1993
M. David Master of Litterature Postcards from the edge: an analysis of tasks undertaken during the late Pleistocene at Devil's Lair, south-western Australia. 1993
L. W. Bursill Master of Litterature Paintings, Engravings and Stencils (P.E.D.S.) of Southern Sydney Aboriginals 1993
R. E. James Bachelor of Arts Honours Stones, samples and the stories we tell. 1993
C. F. Wall Bachelor of Arts Honours A technological analysis of quartz artefact assemblages from six open sites in the Coonabarabran region, Northwest New South Wales 1993
D. Donlon PhD The value of postcranial nonmetric variation in studies of global populations in modern Homo sapiens 1992
D. A. Murphy Master of Litterature Plant taphonomy in rockshelters: a study of plant material in sandstone rockshelters near Coonabarabran, N.S.W. 1992
L. Dagg Bachelor of Arts Honours Interpreting faunal remains: A taphonomic analysis of two late Holocene faunal assemblages from South East Cape York Peninsular 1992
Ken Kippen Bachelor of Arts Honours An analysis of stone artefacts from twelve open scatters in the Selwyn range, northwest central Queensland. 1992 Available
S. L'Oste-Brown Bachelor of Arts Honours Getting organised: causes of stone artefact variability in South East Cape York Peninsula 1992
Andrew Piper Masters in Research Butchery analysis in Australian historical archaeology 1991
A. Roberts Master of Litterature An analysis of mound formation at Milingimbi, N.T. 1991
D. Keyte Master of Litterature Groupies in the cemetery: the influence of group affiliation upon cemetery monument style selection 1991
G. Armstrong Bachelor of Arts Honours The Archaeology of Coal Mining: Site formation processes affecting coal mining sites in the Lithgow Valley, a case study 1991
P. Blackman Bachelor of Arts Honours Ethnicity in Southeast Queensland: a case study 1991
G. Knuckey Bachelor of Arts Honours Dispute settlement and community conflict in prehistoric Australian Aboriginal populations: skeletal evidence 1991
C. Lovell-Jones Bachelor of Arts Honours Observer and Observed: a predicament of Australian Archaeology 1991
F. Porteous Bachelor of Arts Honours Climate and Convention: the archaeology of Blue Mountains houses 1991
Stephen Collier PhD Sexual dimorphism and economy in modern human populations 1990
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
S. Jung Master of Litterature Chronological changes in stone artefact resource utilisation at Magnificent Gallery, S.E. Cape York Peninsula, Northern QLD. 1990
J. Appleton Bachelor of Arts Honours A survey strategy for the Western Slopes 1990
R. Cliff Bachelor of Arts Honours Understanding trade in small scale societies 1990
B. Hutchet Bachelor of Arts Honours Modelling and Australian Prehistory 1990
W. Pearson Bachelor of Arts Honours Prehistoric Aboriginal land and resource use in SE Cape York Peninsula - a technological view 1990
N. Steel Bachelor of Arts Honours 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 1990
A. J. Sonter Master of Litterature Aboriginal art on the North West Slopes of New South Wales. 1989
P. Elsegood Master of Litterature Hard work, hard times and hard labour: a study of the relationship between nutrition and fertility. 1989
J. Collins Master of Litterature Drawing Patterns: an archaeological survey and analysis of Aboriginal rock art in the Clarence Region, Northern New South Wales. 1989
C. Smith Bachelor of Arts Honours Designing dreaming: testing the information exchange theory of style. 1989
S. Wellfare Bachelor of Arts Honours Inferring gender: an explanatory framework for discerning small scale social relations in Fisher Gatherer Hunter Archaeology 1989
Mike Smith PhD The pattern and timing of prehistoric settlement in central Australia. 1988 Available
C. Cooper Master of Litterature 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. 1988
C. Burke Bachelor of Arts Honours 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 1988
Y. Kaiser-Glass Bachelor of Arts Honours A metric analysis of transparent dentine as indicator of age in isolated human teeth 1988
G. Tanks Bachelor of Arts Honours Illusions of diffusions: the distribution of maritime technology along the N.E. Queensland coast 1987
P. Gaynor Bachelor of Arts Honours Kawambarai Cave: An analysis of a Warrumbungle Stone Assemblage 1987
H. Burke Bachelor of Arts Honours Quarries above ground: Australian historial archaeology and the cultural remains of material 1987
V. Edmonds Master of Litterature Subtropical Rainforest: archaeological evidence of Aboriginal use in the border ranges S.E. Queensland. 1986
S. Pearson Bachelor of Arts Honours Botanical indicators in historical archaeology 1986
D. Gillespie Master of Litterature Imarlkba. Historical archaeology and a fossicking camp site in the top. 1985
S. Sutton Bachelor of Arts Honours Warragarra stone: a technological analysis of an assemblage of stone artefacts from central Tasmania 1985
S. Solomon Bachelor of Arts Honours People and Other aggravations: Taphonomic research in Australia 1985
S. Freeman Bachelor of Arts Honours Cultural differences between East and West. Viti Levu, Fiji 1985
D. Donlon Bachelor of Arts Honours Australian Aboriginal tooth size clines: A reappraisal 1985
S. Davis Bachelor of Arts Honours Diet, disease and demography: Hunter gatherers in Arnhem Land 1985
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
C. Caley Bachelor of Litterature Angling for old bones: new thoughts on Olduvai Gorge. 1983
P. Latz Master of Arts Bushfires and bushtucker: Aborigines and plants in Central Australia 1982
M. Minnegal Bachelor of Arts Honours Dugong processing as an archaeological phenomenon 1982
H. Johnston Bachelor of Arts Honours Testing a model: An analysis of vertebrate faunal remains from Warragarra Rockshelter: central Tasmania 1982
R. A. Neal Bachelor of Arts Honours Carlton Bluff: an analysis of the invertebrate fauna from a lower estuarine shell midden site, South East Tasmania 1981
L. Godwin Bachelor of Arts Honours What you can do with 27,000 pieces of bone: A taphonomic study of vertebrate fauna from the Bridewater Caves South Australia 1981
M. Callaghan Bachelor of Arts Honours An analysis of the Molluscan remains from the Macleay River Midden Sites 1980
K. Geering Bachelor of Arts Honours An attempt to establish the seasonability of occupation of the Stockyard Site, Hunter Island 1980
M. Kelly Bachelor of Arts Honours Stones...what use? A functional analysis of two stone assemblages from the Macleay River Valley 1980
S. O'Connor Bachelor of Arts Honours Bringing it all back home: an analysis of the vertebrate faunal remains from the Stockyard Site, Hunter Island, North West Tasmania. 1980
Carol Frances Williams Bachelor of Arts Honours Vacuuming Mt Yarrowyck: A comprehensive survey of one stratified zone of the New England Tablelands. 1980 Available
S. Martin Bachelor of Arts Honours Mud, mussels and toes: The ecology and archaeology of the Narran area 1979
W. Jones Bachelor of Arts Honours Up the Creek: Hunter-gatherers in the Cooper Basin 1979
L. Dwyer Bachelor of Arts Honours A four site saga 1979
A. Djekic Bachelor of Arts Honours Keegierdoyn. The surface archaeology of an inland site 1979
L. Cubis Bachelor of Arts Honours Aboriginal food and economies in N.E. N.S.W. 1977
L. Piper Bachelor of Arts Honours Subsistence economies on the southern plain of New Guinea 1977
M.C. Quinnell Master of Arts Aboriginal rock art in Carnarvon Gorge 1976
A. Piper Bachelor of Litterature Ocean beach to mountain top: The Tweed Valley, N.S.W. 1976
P. Yalden Bachelor of Arts Honours The Bondaian culture in Eastern New South Wales - a study in Prehistoric assemblage variation 1973
C. Wojciechowski Bachelor of Arts Honours A bit of bundy: The Bundaberg engraving site. 1973
M. Pearson Bachelor of Arts Honours The MacIntyre Valley: Field archaeology and ethnohistory 1973
R. Griffiths Bachelor of Litterature A discussion of the Hand Motif in Australian Aboriginal arts. 1972
O. Wheatley Bachelor of Arts Honours Vere Gordon Childe: A study of the concepts he employed for an historical interpretation of archaeological data. 1972
R. Pierce Bachelor of Arts Honours 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. 1971
K. H. Lane Bachelor of Arts Honours The Nambucca Aborigines at the time of the first white settlement. A study of their adaptation to an environment, as revealed by ethnohistorical sources. 1971
Sharon Sullivan Master of Arts Honours The traditional culture of the Aborigines of north western New South Wales 1970 Available
N. Sabine Bachelor of Arts Honours An Ethnohistory of the Clarence Valley. 1970
V. M. Campbell Bachelor of Arts Honours A field survey of shell middens of the Lower Macleay Valley, with reference to their potential and possible methods of investigation. 1969
J. Dunton Bachelor of Arts Honours Aspects of relations between Colonists and Aborigines in NSW from 1788-1838 (with special reference to the Sydney Gazette from 1803) 1969
F. Fallins Bachelor of Litterature Central and South Eastern Europe from the Neolithic to the beginning of the early Bronze Age. 1968
I. McBryde PhD An archaeology survey of the New England Region, NSW. 1967
J. Belshaw Bachelor of Arts Honours The economic basis of Aboriginal life in Northern NSW in the nineteenth century. 1966
H. C. Brayshaw Bachelor of Arts Honours Some Aspects of the material culture of the Aborigines of the Hunter Valley at the time of first white settlement in the area 1966
B. Harrison Bachelor of Arts Honours The Myall Creek massacre and its significance in the controversy over the Aborigines during Australia's early squatting period. 1966
G. Brice Bachelor of Litterature The interpretation of the art of the hunter societies of Europe and Australia. 1965
Sharon Sullivan Bachelor of Arts Honours The material culture of the Aborigines of the Richmond and Tweed Rivers of northern NSW at the time of first white settlement. 1964