Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology at ANZAAS, Canberra : a collection of papers presented to Section 25A, of the 54th Congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, in May 1984 / edited by Graeme K. Ward.

Author

ANZAAS. Congress. (54th : 1984 : Australian National University). Section 25A.

Publication

Canberra : Canberra Archaeological Society, [1987]

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Additional Authors

• Ward, Graeme
• Ward, Graeme K.
• Canberra Archaeological Society.

Description

vi, 265 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Subject

• Excavations (Archaeology) > Australia > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Oceania > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology > Congresses
• Archaeology > Australia > Congresses
• Archaeology > New Zealand > Congresses
• Australia > Antiquities > Congresses
• Oceania > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Second printing with minor corrections, August 1987"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Dating, mass spectrometry and nuclear science / J.R. Bird -- Stable-isotopic studies of tree-rings and the search for the "Little Ice Age" in Tasmania / A.R. Chivas ... [et al.] -- Diffusion profiles of flourine in archaeological bones and teeth : their measurement and application / Graeme Coote and Peter Nelson -- Archaeological investigations of the 1826-1828 convict settlement near Corinella, Western Port, Victoria / Peter Coutts -- The Commandants' residence at Port Arthur : an archaeological perspective / Martin Davies and Brian Egloff -- Man's impact on a riverscape : the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley, New South Wales / Ian Jack -- Adelaide's destitute asylum : a cautionary tale of rescue archaeology and confrontation politics / Vincent Megaw.
• Amino acids in archaeological bone / John Dennison -- Lower limb proportions in the Australian aborigine : re-examination and Australasian perspectives / A.M.C. Murphy and W.B. Wood -- Form and function of the masticatory system / Lindsay Richards -- Murnong, a Victorian staple food : some nutritional implications / Beth Gott -- Yams, alluvium and "villages" on the west coastal plains / Sylvia Hallum -- A review of culinary and nutritional adaptations involving wild plant foods following Polynesian settlement of New Zealand / Helen Leach -- The flesh content of prehistoric diet : a survey of research within the Australasian and Oceanic region / Mary-Jane Mountain -- Drug running : the lubricant for inter-regional trading patterns? / Pam Watson.
• Introduction to Symposium 6 : new directions in stone artefact studies in the southwestern Pacific / Dan Witter -- Waisted axes of Asia, Melanesia and Australia / Les Groube -- Raw material rationing as an explanation of assemblage differences : a case study of Lawn Hill, northwestern Queensland / Peter Hiscock -- Use-wear on quartz / Richard Fullagar -- Cunning conjoins : methodological considerations in refitting stone flakes / Kevin Jones -- The broken artefact and functional studies / Isabel McBryde.
• Aboriginal involvement in archaeology / Wayne Cook and Glen Morris -- A public archaeologist's view of future directions in cultural resource management / Peter Coutts -- Cultural resource management in a university teaching department / David Frankel and Denise Gaughwin -- Training Aboriginal community site curators / David Morrissey -- Consultants and the research and assessment of historic places / Michael Pearson and Helen Temple -- The "management" in cultural resource management : training for public archaeologists and other cultural resource managers / Sharon Sullivan -- Presidential address : the changing faces of Australian archaeology / Richard Wright.

ISBN

• 0958862508
• 09588625508 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

19680664

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library