The past few years has seen a proliferation in the breadth and scope of academic literature surrounding theory and method in heritage studies. In this post, I want to consider some of the similarities in recent approaches to the idea of heritage in relation to Aboriginal notions of country. It’s possibly an overly ambitious idea for what is my first contribution to the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival, but challenges are what make life interesting. In some ways this is also a continuation on from an earlier post about natural versus cultural heritage. Consider it all part of an idea in progress.

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Change in scenery

August 3, 2010
Cabbage Palms at Uningan, Weipa

Over the past few years I’ve been based in Cairns, far north Queensland, working as a heritage advisor for Aboriginal community groups and developers. However the past several months have seen a bundle of changes in my life which revolve around a new position in the Department of Archaeology, Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. [...]

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North Queensland fieldwork projects, 2010-11

June 18, 2010

Today I’m happy to report I have been successful with two funding applications to carry out fieldwork projects in north Queensland over the next  year or so. The funds – $150,000 in total – have been provided by the Indigenous Heritage Program (IHP) and were announced by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Arts [...]

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This digitised life … (with Zotero)

June 2, 2010

There are quite a few open source applications around that are at the point of being sufficiently well developed to be of practical use for a professional on a day to day basis. Those that immediately come to mind include Open Office, Inkscape, the GIMP, the strangely named ‘gvSIG‘ (GIS) and of course the bibliographic [...]

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Hello world!

March 29, 2010

Well, if you happened across this site during the past few days you will have received a ‘website not found’ error of some sort. My apologies for this: the reason is that I encountered some problems during a transfer from the site’s former home at wordpress.com to a self-hosted installation of wordpress with Laughing Squid. [...]

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New paper: Mission-based Indigenous production at the Weipa Presbyterian Mission

March 17, 2010

In 2007 Jane Lydon, Jeremy Ash and I co-convened a conference session at the ‘New Ground’ Australian Archaeology joint conference at the University of Sydney on the archaeology of Indigenous missions and reserves in Australia and the Pacific. A range of papers were presented exploring the contributions of archaeological approaches to the history of missions [...]

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Mapping cultural landscapes: the Alngith Cultural Heritage Project

March 11, 2010

Over the past half year or so I have been working on a project documenting the cultural heritage of the Alngith People (pronounced Al-ngit where ‘ng’ is the same as in ‘ping’) , an Aboriginal group whose lands include the Weipa area and surrounds on western Cape York Peninsula, north eastern Australia. It is a [...]

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PhD is done!

February 3, 2010

At long, long last I am happy to report that my doctoral dissertation is through the examination process and came out largely unscathed. Although I need to make some minor corrections and graduate before it is ‘official’, it really all hinges on examiners comments which I received a few weeks ago. They were good, so [...]

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Australian Archaeology Association Conference 2009

October 27, 2009

September to December is typically the ‘conference season’ in Australia and is when most major archaeology conferences are scheduled. The largest of these is the Australian Archaeology Association’s annual conference which this year is being held in Adelaide, South Australia in early December. The keynote speaker is Professor Geoff Bailey (University of York) and the [...]

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An update

September 22, 2009

My apologies for the lengthy hiatus between posts on this site;  as followers of my twitter feed would be aware I have recently submitted my Doctoral thesis for examination, and the final stages of completing that needed to take precedence over blogging. However, with that behind me now I have time to start writing here [...]

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