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Landscapes of Punishment and Production

ARC Project 2017–2019

Timelapse video of the Port Arthur excavation (on right)
— courtesy of PAHSMA.

When is a cat not a real cat

UNE archaeology students put sophisticated sensing equipment to a grisly use during a recent visit to the Port Arthur Historic Site, testing three cat-o'-nine tails for human flesh.

Posted 25 Jul 2018

ARC Project Update: data entry progress

To date, all the data pertaining to convicts who arrived on roughly fifty ships has been completed. Targeting those convicts who are known to have served at Port Arthur at some point, the data not only provides valuable insights into the nature life and labour on the penal settlement, and also reveals the broader punishment histories of individuals before and after their time there.

Posted 23 Mar 2018

Data and Digitisation: The Virtual Dig Continues

Over the last month the project team has been georeferencing numerous historic maps and plans to create a spatial representation of changes to Port Arthur’s landscape during the convict period.

Posted 10 Nov 2017

ARC Project Update: georeferencing of historic maps

Over the last month the project team has been georeferencing numerous historic maps and plans to create a spatial representation of changes to Port Arthur’s landscape during the convict period.

Posted 18 Aug 2017

ARC Project Update — collecting historical documents and data

The early phases of the Landscapes of Production and Punishment project hinge on the collection and collation of historical documents and data.

Posted 07 Jun 2017

ARC Project Planning

A series of meetings of the project team at Port Arthur and Hobart in the week beginning 20 March clarified the scope and outcomes of the project.

Posted 06 Apr 2017

Digging into Port Arthur’s Industrial Past

The grim histories of Port Arthur and the Tasman Peninsula through their decades as Tasmania’s dog-guarded convict gulag are being given new layers of meaning in an ambitious project led from the University of New England (UNE).

Posted 27 Mar 2017

Project Partners Meeting at UNE

Planning and initiating the project's first phase: A focus on complex industrial aspects of the World Heritage-listed Port Arthur site and the Tasman Peninsula.

Posted 20 Mar 2017

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.