Working Papers in Archaeology

The Working Papers in Archaeology seminar series provides a forum for dissemination of archaeological research and ideas amongst UQ archaeology students and staff. All postgraduates, from honours upwards, are invited to attend and/or present in the series. The aim is to provide opportunities for students in particular, but also staff and those from outside UQ, to present and discuss their work in an informal environment, as well as complementing the current School of Social Science seminar series. It is hoped that anyone interested in current archaeological directions, both within and outside the School and University, will be able to contribute to the series.

 

Semester 1, 2013 Schedule

Friday 3:00 - 4:00 pm , Room 309 in the Steele Building (3).

Date Speaker  Role Title
 01 Mar Dr Serena Love Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland Methods for understanding mudbrick architecture
PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE IN VENUE to Room 262 in the Steele Building (3).
 08 Mar Dr Jessica Thompson Post Doctoral Fellow in Archaeology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland New Methodological, Theoretical, and Practical Work on the Origins of Hominin Tool Use
PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE IN VENUE to Room 262 in the Steele Building (3).
13 Mar Dr Alison Crowther British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford

East Africa in the Indian Ocean: new archaeological results and future directions
SPECIAL SESSION: Room 116, Sir Llew Edwards Building (14).
 15 Mar Prof. Peter Hiscock  Tom Austen Brown Chair in Australian Archaeology at University of Sydney Archaeology in Australia's harsh deserts: the revelations from open sites near Lake Eyre
PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE IN VENUE to Room S402, Social Science Building (24)
 22 Mar Prof. Glenn Summerhayes Professor of Archaeology at the University of Otago Is there Lapita on the North Coast of New Guinea? Presentation of preliminary results of recent research on Koil Island, Papua New Guinea.
LEASE NOTE: CHANGE IN VENUE to Room 309 in the Steele Building (3).
27 Mar Prof. Richard Walter Professor of Archaeology at the University of Otago Hawaiiki to Aotearoa – a new model for the settlement of New Zealand by Polynesians
SPECIAL SESSION:Room 116, Sir Llew Edwards Building (14)
12 Apr Dr Matthew Whincop Senior Heritage Consultant, UQ Culture and Heritage Unit The Role of Material Culture in Reconstructions of the Iron Age Northern Levant
19 Apr Dr Ladislav Nejman Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Science, University of Queensland Palaeoenvironments, Anatomically Modern Humans and Neanderthals: The Contribution of Pod Hradem Cave (Czech Republic) to Recent Debates
26 Apr Prof. Simon Holdaway Head of the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland A Truly Unique Record? Curation and Abandonment of Australian Aboriginal Stone Artifacts
PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE IN VENUE to Forgan Smith (1), Room E215
03 May Assoc. Prof. Tristan Carter Associate Professor, McMaster University City of glass: Obsidian and society at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
10 May Linda Terry & Cemre Ustunkaya PhD Candidates, School of Social Science, University of Queensland PhD milestone presentations.
Linda Terry: The identity of women on the pastoral landscape of south-east Queensland in the nineteenth century.
Cemre Ustunkaya: Moving towards an understanding of climate in the Late Bronze Age – integration of Grain Weight Analysis and stable isotopes
17 May

Nathan Wright

 PhD Candidate, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  Wood as a fuel resource and economic commodity at Kaman- Kalehöyük, Central Anatolia, Turkey
24 May Prof. Mike Parker Pearson Professor of British Later Prehistory, University College of London  2013 Jay Hall lecture
31 May Assoc. Prof. Chris Clarkson Australian Research Council QEII Fellow in Archaeoloy, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  TBA
More info regarding upcoming sessions will be posted soon

 

 

 

Semester 2, 2012 Schedule

Friday 3:00 - 4:00 pm , Room 213 , Richard Building (5). 

Date Speaker   Title
27 Jul  Hilda Maclean PhD candidate, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  An angel at my shoulder and flowers at my feet – An examination of the coffin furniture recovered from the North Brisbane Burial Grounds
3 Aug  Dr. Amelia Brown Lecturer in Greek History and Language, School of History Philosophy Religion and Classics, University of Queensland [[Please note: 2:30 start this week, not 3:00]] Archaeological Evidence for Aphrodite as a Patron Goddess of Ancient Travellers
10 Aug  Dr. Marc Oxenham Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Bioanthropology, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU  The Social and Biological Construction of Childhood in Ancient Vietnam
17 Aug  Prof. Lisa Matisoo-Smith Professor of Biological Anthropology, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago  Mitochondrial DNA sequences from the first New Zealanders: Ancient DNA from Wairau Bar
20 Aug  Prof. Ian Shaw Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology, School of Archaeology Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool  [[Special Monday seminar]] Quarrying Pharaoh's Stone in the Eastern and Western Deserts of Egypt: Recent Work at Wadi Hammamat and Gebel el-Asr
24 Aug  Dr J. Tyler Faith Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions in southern Africa’s Cape Floristic Region
31 Aug  Prof. Marshall Weisler Head of Discipline (Archaeology), School of Social Science, University of Queensland  Human Settlement of Pacific Atolls and Responses to Climate Change and Changing Atoll Landscapes over Two Millennia: Preliminary Results of Recent Fieldwork
7 Sep  Tam Smith   PhD candidate, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  Cockle, whelk, cockle, oyster, cockle, pipi:  a review of southeast Queensland coastal middens
14 Sep  ---    
21 Sep Prof. Ian Lilley  Professor in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland  Bridging the nature-culture divide in World Heritage management: ‘biocultural resilience’ in protected landscapes
28 Sep  ---    [[Mid-semester break]]
5 Oct  ---    
12 Oct  Ms Emma James  PhD candidate, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  Back to Basics: Investigations into basic science in taphonomy and how it (should) rule us all
19 Oct  Dr. Chris Clarkson  Australian Research Council QEII Fellow in Archaeology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  High Impact Factor! Determining the evolution of projectile systems using experimental factors
26 Oct  Dr. Ceri Shipton  Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Archaeology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  Stone Technology and Social Transformations in the South Indian Neolithic: the evidence from Sanganakallu-Kupgal
2 Nov  Dr. Serena Love  Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Social Science, University of Queensland  Mudbrick architecture and geoarchaeology
More info regarding upcoming sessions will be posted soon

 

Semester 1, 2012 Schedule

 

Date Speaker Title  
       
 4 May  Dr Tyler Faith  Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal assemblage from Boomplaas Cave, Western Cape, South Africa  
 25 May  Dr Timothy Earle  Bronze Age Chiefs along the Danube  
 5 Jun  Rohan Fenwick  Smoke gets in their eyes: henbane (Hyoscyamus L.) as a medicinal fumigant in antiquity  
       
 

 

Semester 2, 2011 Schedule

Date Speaker Title
5 August  Hilda McLean In Unseemly Haste: Burial Practices in Tropical Brisbane.
12 August  Noel Sprenger Health Appropriation: A Comparative Study of Patent Medicines and Orthodox Medical Practice, using Colonial Queensland as a Case Study.
19 August  Dr Jon Prangnell Salvage Archaeology at the Commissariat Store Wall Collapse.
26 August Rosemary Knight Scientific and Hygienic: the Caplin and Jenyns corsets.
2 September   AIMA Conference - No Seminar
9 September  Amelia Brown Excavating Palaiokastro, the Polis of Ancient Kythera.
16 September Greg Deftereos The Past as Property – A Cypriot Case Study
 23 September Rohan Fenwick How the Mighty Fall: Central Anatolian Agriculture in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires.
30 September Mid Semester Break - No Seminar
7 October Dr Andrew Glikson The discovery of fire, climate and human evolution
14 October Nathan Wright & Cemre Archaeobotanical studies and 2011 Field Season at Kaman-Kalehöyük, Turkey
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
28 October Suzanne Joyce Nugent Residue and Use-wear Analyses of Aboriginal Spears from Northern Australia

 

Semester 1, 2011 Schedule

Date Speaker Title
4 Mar Phil Habgood A demographic and social framework for explaining the appearance of symbolic behaviour within Sahul
18 Mar Sasiphan Khaweerat The chronology and seasonality of Hawaiian settlement patterns determined by Th-230 dating and trace element analysis of corals
25 Mar Kelsey Lowe Archaeological Prospection: A Completely North American Perspective
1 Apr Andrew Sneddon Social Complexity or Just Being Sociable - The Archaeology of Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus.
8 Apr Peter McAllister Pygmonia: The Anthropological Myth of the 'Lost Land of the Pygmies'.
6 May Marshall Weisler A Quarried Landscape in the Hawaiian Islands
20 May Clair Harris I know what you did last summer: Assessing lithic evidence for long term cultural, biological and ecological histories on the
Indian subcontinent.
 

 

Abstracts

Current and previous seminar abstracts are listed below:

 

 

Working Papers in Archaeology section

4 Mar: Working Papers in Archaeology "A demographic and social framework for explaining the appearance of symbolic behaviour within Sahul" - Phil Habgood

Click on the following link to see the schedule for this semester: http://socialscience.uq.edu.au/working-papers

18 Mar: Working Papers in Archaeology "The chronology and seasonality of Hawaiian settlement patterns determined by Th-230 dating and trace element analysis of corals" - Sasiphan Khaweerat

Click on the following link to see the schedule for this semester: http://socialscience.uq.edu.au/working-papers

25 Mar: Working Papers in Archaeology - Archaeological Prospection: A Completely North American Perspective - Kelsey M. Lowe

Click on the following link to see the schedule for this semester: http://socialscience.uq.edu.au/working-papers

1 Apr - Social Complexity or Just Being Sociable - The Archaeology of Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus - Andrew Sneddon

Click on the following link to see the schedule for this semester: http://socialscience.uq.edu.au/working-papers

8 Apr: Pygmonia: The Anthropological Myth of the 'Lost Land of the Pygmies'. - Peter McAllister

Click on the following link to see the schedule for this semester: http://socialscience.uq.edu.au/working-papers

6 May: A Quarried Landscape in the Hawaiian Islands - Marshall Weisler

Click on the following link to see the schedule for this semester: http://socialscience.uq.edu.au/working-papers

5 Aug: In Unseemly Haste: Burial Practices in Tropical Brisbane - Hilda Maclean

12 Aug: HEALTH APPROPRIATION: A Comparative Study of Patent Medicines and Orthodox Medical Practice, using Colonial Queensland as a Case Study - Noel Sprenger

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