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25.01.2022 Did you catch Prof Peter Veth giving the George Seddon Memorial Lecture a few weeks ago for the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies? If not, here's a link to the lecture! The Deep History of Place shows that all landscapes are anthropogenic, with long practices of firing and resource use, spiritual ownership and maintenance. A better understanding of these values provides a critical scaffold to more effectively manage land- and seascapes. In light of major advances made in the co-management of conservation and cultural estates, and yet given the wake-up call of the Juukan disaster, we face unheralded challenges and opportunities in ensuring heritage futures and a place for all.

24.01.2022 Congratulations to UWA Archaeology and CRAR+M member Associate Professor Martin Porr for officially starting a new project on the collaborative assessment of ethnographic archival materials in Germany from the Northwest Kimberley. The project is conducted together with the Wunambal Gaambera, Wilingginm, and Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporations. The German project partners are the Frobenius Institute and the Museum der Weltkulturen (Frankfurt) and the Museum Fünf Kontinente (Munich). The project is funded by the German Research Council over three years. The photo shows Leonie Cheinmora and Leah Umbagai during a visit to the archive of the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich in 2017. https://www.uwa.edu.au//Project-connects-Aboriginal-commun

21.01.2022 After a brief hiatus, our next student spotlight is on Jo Thomson whose PhD research aims to undertake a comprehensive investigation into the processes by which Aboriginal archaeological sites, as a subtype of Aboriginal cultural heritage, are attributed value and assessed for significance. Jo's research is well timed, as for the fifth time in its history, the Western Australia Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 is currently under review. Read more below

20.01.2022 Day 7 of the 2020 Archaeology Fieldschool, and that's a wrap! Today we drew plans, tidied up, backfilled, before heading back to UWA to return our field gear to the storeroom. This year the students set a UWA field school backfilling record, taking just 18 mins 10 seconds to backfill a 3m x 2m x 20cm trench, complete with an excellent backfill dance to compact the fill and prevent it sagging as the sediment settles. We'd like to reiterate our many thanks to the Ballardong Tra...ditional Owners, the Shire of York, and Carol Littlefair and Katie Benfield-Constable, and DBCA's Bob Huston and Tony Rouphael, who have all supported the work undertaken this week. Special thanks also to Janet Osborne and Sean Winter for allowing us to be involved at the Gerald Mission site. On behalf of the students, huge thanks also to Sven Ouzman, who has been a calm and constant presence throughout the longest-ever Archaeological Field Skills unit we've ever run at UWA, helping us all to roll with the punches this year and ensuring everyone had a top-quality field school despite many changes in plan. For now, we're all ready for a hot shower and our own beds, but will be reuniting next week - at the ArchSoc Quiz Night! #Archaeology #UniversityWA

19.01.2022 Congratulations to the UWA Archaeology field unit folks - who also managed to sign off over 20 competencies on the Australian Archaeological Association's Skills Passport. Elly Anderson Angus Ash Cassandra Auzins ... Anja Becker David Brauhart David Burnett Kate Burnett Emily Collier Avery Dimasi Grace Eldon Rachael Fiorentino Victoria Huntley Genevieve Kan Ayesha Limb Hamish MacGregor Adrianna Mitrano Brody Saccoccia Marcel Teschendorff Jarrod Van Der Weide Congratulations also to Crystal Vogel who completed the unit via alternative fieldwork due to a timing conflict with the Geology fieldtrip, and Sylvie Brassard who is PhD student in History and Archaeology.

18.01.2022 Congratulations to UWA PhD candidate Janet Osborne on her newly published paper "Erased Places? Revealing the Mission network of the Swan River Colony, 1829-1879". Great work, Janet! "This paper reviews the institutions established for First Nations (Nyungar) children and young adults (16 missions and other residential institutions) operating in the first 50 years of the Swan River Colony, Western Australia (1829 1879), and their potential as sites of archaeological investi...gation. Focusing upon two institutions operating within this network, at Perth, run by the colonial government and Wesleyan Methodists between 1833 and 1844, it asks to what extent these missions operated as part of a network of surveillance and control of Nyungar lives. Evidence for the archaeology and the history of these places is examined and specifically their varying spatial characteristics, that were exploited by administrators in attempts to colonise and control Nyungar inmates. The role of such missions in the landscape of frontier colonialism and the colonial society and economy is explored." https://pacificarchaeology.org/index.php//article/view/310

17.01.2022 Mystery objects - Day 6! The first is a couple of metal items, the second is two conjoining ceramic fragments.

15.01.2022 Join UWA's Peter Veth along with other national experts this afternoon (2.30 pm Perth time) for a webinar discussion of the adequacy of Australia’s heritage protection and land rights regimes, and relationship between the extractive industries, Indigenous communities, and the law. Registration required. See below for details.

11.01.2022 Want to learn more about Ngarlum Mia (Devil's Lair) in Western Australia's south west? This video , made by Seabird Films, features Adjunct Professor Joe Dortch and collaborators from the Wadandi People, explaining about the national and global significance of this site.

10.01.2022 UWA well represented at the first ever virtual AAA conference! This year the annual Australian Archaeological Association'Voices from isolation' conference went virtual for the first time. Over 600 people registered - with a strong UWA Archaeology and CRAR+M contribution. We presented nine lead-authored papers (including Six led by honours and PhD students! ), three posters, and chaired six sessions and a Forum discussion, in addition to behind-the-scenes work helping ...organise the conference, judge student papers, and run another first for the Association: a virtual AGM! Huge thanks to the Association, conference organisers, and all attendees who have come together to make this event such a success! Conference posters, abstracts, and other details can be found on the conference website: https://aaaconference.com.au/ #AAA43

09.01.2022 If you missed Peter Veth's Seddon Lecture on the Deep history of Place, tune in to listen tomorrow on ABC Radio National.

09.01.2022 Great to see this exciting new (open access!) publication led by recent UWA Archaeology and Centre for Rock Art Research + Management PhD graduate Beth Velliky! Beth and colleagues analysed ochre from the surfaces of Aurignacian (c.43-35,000 years before present) ivory beads from southwestern Germany, confirming the anthropogenic source of the ochre and providing some interesting insights into how people used and treated these beads. https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S0047248420301615

09.01.2022 Today the Collecting the West Project and the Centre for Western Australian History are pleased to launch 'Collecting Natural History in Western Australia', Studies in Western Australian History, Volume 35, edited by Alistair Paterson, Andrea Witcomb and Tiffany Shellam. Register for this online event at the link below:

09.01.2022 After the week off from our seminar series, we thought we’d give you a reminder to register for tomorrow’s talk!

08.01.2022 Congratulations to PhD graduate Dr India Ella Dilkes-Hall, who has just had not one, but TWO papers published! The first paper, co-authored with UWA Archaeology's Jane Balme and Emilie Dotte-Sarout, and ANU's Sue O'Connor, is titled "Evaluating human responses to ENSO driven climate change during the Holocene in northwest Australia through macrobotanical analyses". This paper reports on people's use of monsoonal plants during periods of climatic instability in the Kimberley d...uring the Holocene. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0959683620950410 The second paper, led by Tim Maloney (Griffith University), is titled "Assessing the spread and uptake of tula adze technology in the late Holocene across the Southern Kimberley of Western Australia". This paper investigates the archaeological evidence of woodworking and tula distribution, and concludes that woodworking craft production proliferated in the late Holocene, as a likely result of both diffusion of information and foraging risk minimisation. https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/03122417.2020.1816149

03.01.2022 Day 5 of the Archaeology Field School was also our first official public open day at the York Convict Depot site... and what an open day it was! 59 (human) visitors, plus six very good doggos, and several keen volunteers who joined us in the trench. Special shout out to UWA students Shiqin, Yangdan, Angela, and Jordan, as well as Mavis and our young diggers Atticus, Felix, and Eli. Some very interesting finds from the midden today, including fragments of a torpedo bottle, some lovely transfer ware ceramics, lead pieces, buttons, and a Ben Nevis Cutty pipe bowl. #Archaeology #UniversityWA

02.01.2022 UWA Archaeology Class Prizes! Congratulations to our hard-working students for not just making it through an extraordinarily difficult year- but excelling! It is with great pleasure we announce the Winners and Runners Up of the Class Prizes for our Semester 2 Archaeology Units. ARCY1002 Archaeology A, B and 14C... Winner: Kristy Vukusich Runners up: Darren Stewart, Nimue Pendragon, Janet Hoskings ARCY2001 Archaeology of Human Origins and Symbolism Winner: Melita Rajkumar Runners up: Jarrod Van Der Weide and Megan Petty ARCY3002 Archaeological Field Skills Winner: Brody Saccoccia Runners up: Elly Anderson, Crystal Vogel ARCY3003 Archaeological Lab Skills Winner: David Brauhart Runner up: Crystal Vogel ARCY3012 Historical + Maritime Archaeology Winner: Genevieve Kan Runner up: David Brauhart Well done to the successful candidates do put on your CVs and to the rest of each class in some cases less than 1% separated winners from runners up and runners up from the rest of the class.

01.01.2022 Congratulations to Pook (Abhiradha Komoot) for being the first UWA School of Social Sciences candidate to win a prestigious UWA Oceans Institute Robson and Roberston award! At a glittering ceremony last night with the VC Amit Chakma, former VC Alan Robson, DVC Research Tim Colmer, former DVC Research Robyn Owens, Siddique Kadambot, and Head of the EPA Tom Hatton in attendance, Pook was one of 8 successful candidates (out of 43) and received the largest award of $14,000. This ...grant will allow her to pursue petrographic and provenance studies of the bitumen inside clay ‘torpedo’ jars found on the Phanom Surin shipwreck that is the subject of her PhD (watch out for this in 2021) with the provenance work mostly taking place post-PhD. The analysis will take place in Australia, Austria and the UK to better understand Persian/Muslim contacts with Southeast Asia in the Early Islamic period. Our thanks to the The UWA Oceans Institute Robson and Robertson award panel and Jock Clough great that the oceans are getting social! Pook’s PhD is entitled ‘Indian Ocean World maritime connections in the 1st Millennium CE through a study of Phanom-Surin shipwreck site in Thailand’ with supervisory panel of: Sven Ouzman, Peter Veth, Al Paterson, Tom Vosmer (all UWA) staff/Honorary, Ross Anderson and Jeremy Green (WA Maritime Museum) . Congrats to the other winners and the other highly commended submissions, all of which focus on our strategic Indian Ocean location.

01.01.2022 Today's mystery objects! Object 1 is ceramic and was one of a few pieces in the trench. Object 2 is metal and was uncovered just a few minutes before the end of the day. #Archaeology #UniversityWA

01.01.2022 Day 6 of the Archaeology Fieldschool saw many community members and UWA staff and current and former students visit us (and they know the way to the excavation team's hearts is via their stomachs... thanks for the bikkies and fruit cake!) Thanks also to Katie and the York Residency Museum team, who brought out a selection of artefacts from the Museum collection including chains and clay pipes. The finds from this week's excavation will all be making their way into the Museum'...s collection too, to add to the story of the site and region. Today was the second last day of the fieldschool, and we had over 40 visitors: we've welcomed over 150 people to the site over the past three days! As is tradition, tonight was also our awards ceremony, the results of which are known only to those on the fieldschool (but they're all #OutStandingInTheField). Tomorrow is a short day: we'll excavated until around midday, then pack up and return to Perth. #archaeology #UniversityWA