Since 1993 archaeological surveys and excavations have been undertaken on the southern Curtis Coast as the coastal component of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project. This paper briefly outlines the physical environment of the study region including geology, vegetation and fauna communities before presenting the preliminary results of archaeological surveys and excavations. These initial results suggest that the region has an extensive mid-to-late Holocene archaeological record that has the potential to contribute to understandings of changes in late Holocene Aboriginal societies in Central Queensland.
{"title":"The Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast: An Overview","authors":"Sean Ulm, I. Lilley","doi":"10.25120/QAR.11.1999.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.11.1999.87","url":null,"abstract":"Since 1993 archaeological surveys and excavations have been undertaken on the southern Curtis Coast as the coastal component of the Gooreng Gooreng Cultural Heritage Project. This paper briefly outlines the physical environment of the study region including geology, vegetation and fauna communities before presenting the preliminary results of archaeological surveys and excavations. These initial results suggest that the region has an extensive mid-to-late Holocene archaeological record that has the potential to contribute to understandings of changes in late Holocene Aboriginal societies in Central Queensland.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69441702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper presents the results of test excavations on nine open hearth sites in the vicinity of the Currawinya Lakes, southwest Queensland. The hearths were all surface features constructed from silcrete cobbles, lumps of hardpan or a combination of both. The ages of six dated hearths ranged from c.1700 BP to c.400 BP. This research demonstrates the potential for hearths to contribute to regioinal archaeological studies in Australia.
{"title":"A report on archaeological investigation of open hearth sites in southwest Queensland","authors":"R. Robins","doi":"10.25120/QAR.10.1996.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.10.1996.98","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of test excavations on nine open hearth sites in the vicinity of the Currawinya Lakes, southwest Queensland. The hearths were all surface features constructed from silcrete cobbles, lumps of hardpan or a combination of both. The ages of six dated hearths ranged from c.1700 BP to c.400 BP. This research demonstrates the potential for hearths to contribute to regioinal archaeological studies in Australia.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69441258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The results of a systematic archaeological survey at Chillagoe (north Queensland) are presented. Observations are made concerning site location and the effects of ground visibility on site patterning. This paper concludes with a working model of site patterning at Chillagoe during recent prehistory.
{"title":"The 1984 Chillagoe surveys","authors":"B. David","doi":"10.25120/QAR.10.1996.99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.10.1996.99","url":null,"abstract":"The results of a systematic archaeological survey at Chillagoe (north Queensland) are presented. Observations are made concerning site location and the effects of ground visibility on site patterning. This paper concludes with a working model of site patterning at Chillagoe during recent prehistory.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69441276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
When I first launched QAR in 1984, I really didn’t think much about its long-term future. I simply wanted to produce a series which would cater for the publication of Queensland-based archaeological research, and especially the substantive material that so often became locked up in theses and reports, seldom to see wider publication. But now that Volume 10 is on my desk I have come to realise that it has served this purpose quite well over the years. The only disappointment to come from my association with this journal is that it is no longer issued annually. As most subscribers will know, the decision to issue the journal occasionally after Volume 9 was forced upon me by a single and very simple fact – a dip in the submission of manuscripts over the past few years. This phenomenon was unexpected as it flew in the face of a steady increase of submissions since the 1984 launch. Furthermore, the slump continues despite numerous pleas and much cajoling of potential contributors, especially among the ranks of recent archaeology graduates with smoking-hot thesis results. Some such individuals of my acquaintance argued that they wanted to publish less substantive overviews in international journals before committing themselves to what they perceived as the ‘boring’ task of preparing descriptive manuscripts concerning the substance of the archaeological record. While some of these have achieved the first goal, few have yet published details of their research. One or two even gained employment on the strength of their international publications – and good for them! Others had very good intentions but never got around to writing anything for publication while a few, having gained their Honours BA degrees after a year of anxiety, were simply not interested in what they perceived as prolonging the agony and subsequently sloped off into the hills of obscurity beyond academe. Whatever the reason, the result is that QAR, a journal designed as a vehicle for site reports and other more descriptive and substantive information, has become occasional rather than annual. I regard this matter of non-publication of substantive data, especially from theses, as a fairly serious issue in our discipline in Australia and cite several reasons why I regard it so. First, there is the problem of accessibility of theses. There was a time, some twenty or so years ago, when the archaeological community was so small and homogeneous that we had little trouble in keeping track of important Ph.D. and Honours BA research results. Furthermore, it was relatively easy and inexpensive to access the few theses being produced by our universities each year. It was simply a matter of contacting the authors and asking for a copy of their thesis, or at least permission to photocopy it. Today, this is no longer the case. As more and more theses are produced each year in line with the growth and diversification of our discipline, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep abreast of this new k
{"title":"Editorial: Now we are 10 and occasional","authors":"Jay Hall","doi":"10.25120/QAR.10.1996.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.10.1996.95","url":null,"abstract":"When I first launched QAR in 1984, I really didn’t think much about its long-term future. I simply wanted to produce a series which would cater for the publication of Queensland-based archaeological research, and especially the substantive material that so often became locked up in theses and reports, seldom to see wider publication. But now that Volume 10 is on my desk I have come to realise that it has served this purpose quite well over the years. The only disappointment to come from my association with this journal is that it is no longer issued annually. As most subscribers will know, the decision to issue the journal occasionally after Volume 9 was forced upon me by a single and very simple fact – a dip in the submission of manuscripts over the past few years. This phenomenon was unexpected as it flew in the face of a steady increase of submissions since the 1984 launch. Furthermore, the slump continues despite numerous pleas and much cajoling of potential contributors, especially among the ranks of recent archaeology graduates with smoking-hot thesis results. Some such individuals of my acquaintance argued that they wanted to publish less substantive overviews in international journals before committing themselves to what they perceived as the ‘boring’ task of preparing descriptive manuscripts concerning the substance of the archaeological record. While some of these have achieved the first goal, few have yet published details of their research. One or two even gained employment on the strength of their international publications – and good for them! Others had very good intentions but never got around to writing anything for publication while a few, having gained their Honours BA degrees after a year of anxiety, were simply not interested in what they perceived as prolonging the agony and subsequently sloped off into the hills of obscurity beyond academe. Whatever the reason, the result is that QAR, a journal designed as a vehicle for site reports and other more descriptive and substantive information, has become occasional rather than annual. I regard this matter of non-publication of substantive data, especially from theses, as a fairly serious issue in our discipline in Australia and cite several reasons why I regard it so. First, there is the problem of accessibility of theses. There was a time, some twenty or so years ago, when the archaeological community was so small and homogeneous that we had little trouble in keeping track of important Ph.D. and Honours BA research results. Furthermore, it was relatively easy and inexpensive to access the few theses being produced by our universities each year. It was simply a matter of contacting the authors and asking for a copy of their thesis, or at least permission to photocopy it. Today, this is no longer the case. As more and more theses are produced each year in line with the growth and diversification of our discipline, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep abreast of this new k","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69441206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Tower Mill, Brisbane's oldest extant building, was excavated by the University of Queensland to determine for the Brisbane City Council the heritage potential of surrounding subsurface deposits. Following the employment of GPR, excavation revealed interesting stratifications, features and artefacts. Analysis permits an explanation for these deposits which augment an already fascinating history of the site's use over the past 170 years or so.
{"title":"The Tower Mill: An archaeological excavation of Queensland's oldest extant building","authors":"Jay Hall, J. Prangnell, B. David","doi":"10.25120/QAR.10.1996.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.10.1996.96","url":null,"abstract":"The Tower Mill, Brisbane's oldest extant building, was excavated by the University of Queensland to determine for the Brisbane City Council the heritage potential of surrounding subsurface deposits. Following the employment of GPR, excavation revealed interesting stratifications, features and artefacts. Analysis permits an explanation for these deposits which augment an already fascinating history of the site's use over the past 170 years or so.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69441213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cultural heritage management (CHM) has long been regarded as an off-shoot of mainstream archaeology, largely because CHM began as a result of archaeological concerns about the destruction of sites by amateur fossicking and urban development pressures (Bowdler 1983, Cleere 1989). The archaeological paradigm which underpinned CHM has recently been challenged, largely as a result of Aboriginal involvement in decision making (Byrne 1991, Sullivan 1993, Ellis 1994, Ross 1996). Focus has moved away from the 'site'; landscapes are becoming the unit of management and the roles of anthropology and indigenous ascription of meaning to place are growing rapidly as the new basis for CHM. These shifts and their implications for heritage management authorities and academic researchers are examined.
{"title":"More than archaeology: New directions in cultural heritage management","authors":"A. Ross","doi":"10.25120/QAR.10.1996.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.10.1996.97","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural heritage management (CHM) has long been regarded as an off-shoot of mainstream archaeology, largely because CHM began as a result of archaeological concerns about the destruction of sites by amateur fossicking and urban development pressures (Bowdler 1983, Cleere 1989). The archaeological paradigm which underpinned CHM has recently been challenged, largely as a result of Aboriginal involvement in decision making (Byrne 1991, Sullivan 1993, Ellis 1994, Ross 1996). Focus has moved away from the 'site'; landscapes are becoming the unit of management and the roles of anthropology and indigenous ascription of meaning to place are growing rapidly as the new basis for CHM. These shifts and their implications for heritage management authorities and academic researchers are examined.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69441219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
No archaeology data has been published from the Stonehenge region of central western Queensland. Indeed the only archaeological activity carried out in the area to this point in time, has been sporadic forays by one or two consultants, leading to a restricted amount of information being available for public comment. The following paper begins the process of addressing this situation by discussing archaeological sites found during the field component of a consultancy in the Stonehenge-Longreach district. General interpretations are offered regarding prehistoric human behaviour and the paper also highlights some problems associated with the interpretation of archaeological material in the field.
{"title":"The archaeology of Stonehenge - a preliminary survey","authors":"Graham Knuckey, Ken Kippen","doi":"10.25120/QAR.9.1992.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.9.1992.105","url":null,"abstract":"No archaeology data has been published from the Stonehenge region of central western Queensland. Indeed the only archaeological activity carried out in the area to this point in time, has been sporadic forays by one or two consultants, leading to a restricted amount of information being available for public comment. The following paper begins the process of addressing this situation by discussing archaeological sites found during the field component of a consultancy in the Stonehenge-Longreach district. General interpretations are offered regarding prehistoric human behaviour and the paper also highlights some problems associated with the interpretation of archaeological material in the field.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69450085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Preliminary results of a seven week intensive archaeological survey conducted on Edmeralda Station, Gulf of Carpentaria, are briefly discussed. Sites found include shelters with art and many open scatters of artefacts. A major surprise is the large number of sites containing a hight density of grinding surfaces, in particular (food ?) grinding patches.
{"title":"The 1992 archaeological surveys on Esmeralda Station, Gulf of Carpentaria: preliminary results","authors":"P. Gorecki, M. Grant, M. Salmon","doi":"10.25120/QAR.9.1992.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.9.1992.112","url":null,"abstract":"Preliminary results of a seven week intensive archaeological survey conducted on Edmeralda Station, Gulf of Carpentaria, are briefly discussed. Sites found include shelters with art and many open scatters of artefacts. A major surprise is the large number of sites containing a hight density of grinding surfaces, in particular (food ?) grinding patches.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69450233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
  This paper briefly reports on archaeological investigations undertaken in SE Cape York Peninsula by the author in 1991. In particular, it presents initial radiocarbon results from Mordor Cave and Nurrabullgin 1 and introduces these sites in the context of broader research questions.
 Â本文简要报道作者1991年在约克角半岛东南进行的考古调查。Â特别地，它介绍了Mordor Cave和Nurrabullgin 1的初步放射性碳结果，并在更广泛的研究问题背景下介绍了这些地点。
{"title":"Recent research in southeast Cape York Peninsula: Nurrabullgin and Mordor Cave","authors":"B. David","doi":"10.25120/QAR.9.1992.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.9.1992.111","url":null,"abstract":"  This paper briefly reports on archaeological investigations undertaken in SE Cape York Peninsula by the author in 1991. In particular, it presents initial radiocarbon results from Mordor Cave and Nurrabullgin 1 and introduces these sites in the context of broader research questions.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69450055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Excavations and surface collections undertaken at four large stone artefact sites situated within huge, active parabolic dunes at Cooloola are described. I argue that these sites, along with similar sites on Fraser Island, represent elements of an Early Phase of Aboriginal use of the Great Sandy Region between at least c. 5500 to 2300 BP. Demise of the Early Phase is seen as a response to climatically-induced, regional decreases in rainforest distribution. This response is set within broader scale increases and decreases in rainforest exploitation seen across SE Queensland around 3000-2000 BP. The implications of complementary responses to resource restructuring in terms of reconstructions of past settlement patterns and population size are discussed.
{"title":"Sandblow sites in the Great Sandy Region, coastal southeast Queensland: implications for models of late Holocene rainforest exploitation and settlement restructuring","authors":"Ian J. McNiven","doi":"10.25120/QAR.9.1992.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/QAR.9.1992.104","url":null,"abstract":"Excavations and surface collections undertaken at four large stone artefact sites situated within huge, active parabolic dunes at Cooloola are described. I argue that these sites, along with similar sites on Fraser Island, represent elements of an Early Phase of Aboriginal use of the Great Sandy Region between at least c. 5500 to 2300 BP. Demise of the Early Phase is seen as a response to climatically-induced, regional decreases in rainforest distribution. This response is set within broader scale increases and decreases in rainforest exploitation seen across SE Queensland around 3000-2000 BP. The implications of complementary responses to resource restructuring in terms of reconstructions of past settlement patterns and population size are discussed.","PeriodicalId":37597,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Archaeological Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69450258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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