On Wednesday ASHA held an informal gathering at The Old Clare Hotel and while we did not take advantage of their sip and dip facilities (a gorgeous rooftop cocktail bar with a heated pool) we did enjoy a few drinks and nibbles downstairs in the bar. Good company, good beer and interesting décor made the …
Buried Stories UPDATE: Booking is now open for this event. Please visit https://Buriedstories.eventbrite.com.au to reserve a spot and to see the programme. Saturday 22/4/23 Peninsula Room, National Museum of Australia 9.30am-12.30pm Join our panelists provided by the Canberra Archaeology Society – Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, in partnership with National Museum of Australia, as they …
Ethan Clark-Kistowski is a student at the University of Queensland and a research assistant at Converge Heritage. In 2022 he wrote his Honours’ Thesis, “One Woman’s Trash, Another’s Treasure: Engendering a Late Victorian South Brisbane Archaeological Refuse Assemblage” and presented on it at the 2022 National Archaeology Student Conference where he won the Australasian Society …
Sources for an Engendered Archaeology of Late Victorian Woolloongabba Read More »
Its been a while since the 2022 ASHA conference in New Zealand and we are now leading up to the 2023 conference in Mackay. It would be great if those who spoke at the conference would write a quick blog (approx. 500 words and an image or two) on their topic to remind us how …
The archaeology of mission stations has been a focus in Vanuatu for some 10 years now with a number of researchers primarily from the ANU collaborating with their counterparts at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (VCC) and VCC fieldworkers and communities on islands in the south of the archipelago. This has included James Flexner, Martin Jones, …
The archaeology of missions in Vanuatu: the latest research on the island of Tongoa. Read More »
Historic cemeteries are places of veneration, wonder and often mystery. Such is the case with the small cemetery located on the southwest coast of Efate Island, at Mele, an area once known as Faureville. Its origins relate to the arrival of Catholic missionaries on the island in 1887 where they ‘purchased’ land at Mele. The …
During the 2022 Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology (ASHA) conference in Russell, New Zealand, I was fortunate enough to present a poster detailing an essay I wrote for my Australian Maritime Archaeology class at Flinder’s University. I was inspired by the findings of Michael Nash during his extensive works on the shipwreck Sydney Cove, found …
An Aboriginal Perspective on the Archaeology of Shipwreck Survivors in Australia Read More »
If you hadn’t noticed we have a new website. Our Web Manager, AKA Nick Pitt, has worked really hard to get this up and running and user friendly. He has also added a fantastic new page of resources (see below). It is very useful, please have a look by hitting the resource tab and if …
CANBERRA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY-AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM 2022 A report from Richard Morrison (ACT ASHA representative). This very successful, half-day event was held on 30 April in the 2022 ACT and Region Heritage Festival and was the Symposium’s fourth year (the 2020 Festival was cancelled because of Covid). This year’s event venue was held …
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated all things archaeology in National Archaeology Week (NAW). I was lucky enough to be part of a couple of events in Sydney and thought I would share my experiences. My first event was on the first Sunday of the week. Not only was it NAW it was also …
