Australian Archaeology

Papers
(The median citation count of Australian Archaeology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rounded toothed pearl-shell mounds at Elizabeth River near Darwin, Northern Territory16
The Archaeology of Island Colonization: Global Approaches to Initial Human Settlement9
A transformative archaeology: Archaeology as a tool for public good9
Why should we explore contemporary relationships to the archaeological record?8
Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures8
How will Australia and the Pacific contribute to global Indigenous archaeologies in the next half century?7
Who cares? Indigenous cultural heritage protection in Australia7
Islamic life and death in Australia, after 1890: The archaeology of cameleer burials5
Lithic technologies from a stone hut and arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country Queensland, and the detection of social learning in archaeology4
What is farming, what is archaeology, and who gets to decide?4
Reorganising foraging during the Late Holocene: The archaeology of NEP23, Central Australia4
A puzzle with 1,000 pieces3
Marra Wonga: Archaeological and contemporary First Nations interpretations of one of central Queensland’s largest rock art sites3
Making Scenes: Global Perspectives on Scenes in Rock Art3
50 years of radiocarbon dating in Australian archaeology3
The tragedy of Bruce Pascoe’sDark Emu3
Bioarchaeological analysis of human skeletal remains associated with the wrecking of the retourschip “Batavia”, 1629: burials BIB 11–143
Brilliant blue: The blue rock art of Awunbarna, Northern Territory, Australia3
When divisions can have value: Revisiting the term ‘contact’ in Australian First Peoples archaeology3
An amazing 50 years of Australian research: Now for greater collaboration, codesign and traditional knowledge application to developing policy and action2
The future of knowledge sharing: Why #AncientApocalypse and #HomoNaledi are smashing it and we’re not2
Fibre technologies in Indigenous Australia: Evidence from archaeological excavations in the Kimberley region2
Agila and the reanimation of seafaring on the south coast of Papua New Guinea after 770 cal BP2
The challenges of attribution1
Author-ity of/as Bawaka Country1
The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–19311
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi Battled and Defeated a Mining Giant1
Pasts otherwise: Some comments on the historiography of concepts of ‘colonialism’ and ‘entanglement’ and the critique of the concept of ‘contact’ in Australasian archaeology1
Jack: Professor Jack Golson, AO, 1926–20231
Wunjunga midden: Late Holocene change, site preservation and open midden sites on the Central Queensland Coast1
A legacy to live up to – and to improve1
Beneath the Top End: A regional assessment of submerged archaeological potential in the Northern Territory, Australia1
Aerial and satellite remote sensing for Aboriginal archaeology: Past, present and future1
Revolution or reform?1
(Australian) archaeology and heritage: The future of the past1
A continent of hunter-gatherers?1
Beyond colonialism? A comment on the formulation of ‘contact’ archaeology in Australia1
Continuing the legacy of humanistic archaeological practice1
An historical reassessment of the maritime Southeast Asian forest and marine commodities trade and its implications for archaeological investigations of Asian contact in northern Australia1
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate1
‘Reclaiming their stories’: A study of the spiritual content of historical cultural objects through an Indigenous creative inquiry1
Love at first site1
Solder scavenging from hole-and-cap food cans in the Western Australian goldfields: Identifying site modification processes1
An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society1
‘Don’t walk behind me, don’t walk in front of me, walk beside me’: A response to Murray1
Michael Alexander Smith, BA Hons, MA, PhD, FAHA, FSA, Rhys Jones Medal (2006), Verco Medal (2010), Order of Australia (AM, 2013), UNE Distinguished Alumni (2015), born England 1955, died Canberra 16 O1
Putting the involvement of Indigenous Australians back into Indigenous Australian archaeology1
Reflections of a former Aboriginal cultural heritage regulator1
Millukmungee 1: Stone artefacts and occupation at the junction of the Buchan and Snowy Rivers, GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland (Victoria, Australia)1
Realising the Indigenisation and [de]-colonisation of the archaeological discipline in Australia1
The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station The Archaeology and Architecture of Farm Buildings at Saumarez Station by Graham Connah, BAR Inter1
Authorship, attribution and acknowledgment in archaeology: Reply, adding audience and accountability1
Optimism, utopia, and blue-green futures for the archaeology of Oceania1
Traumatic pasts, presents and futures: Trauma and archaeology0
Navigating knowledge and intellectual property0
Australian archaeology and heritage: Leadership and legacy0
Another pit, another post-hole: Are we learning anything new from Parramatta’s ‘convict hut’ sites?0
The devil’s in the detail: The challenges of enacting rights-based heritage legislation in Australia0
On the need for cultural heritage practice to pivot to a new Australia0
Towards an archaeology of Country0
The integrated cultural landscape of North Gidley Island: Coastal, intertidal and nearshore archaeology in Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia0
Reflecting on submerged landscape archaeology in Australia and prospects for international collaboration0
Authorship as social relations0
Aligning Indigenous ontologies and legislation: Resisting Western formulations of intangible heritage and values approaches0
Editorial0
Exploring the need and potential for national Indigenous heritage legislation in Australia: Forum Response0
Building and Remembering: An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea’s South CoastBuilding and Remembering: An Archaeology of Place-Making on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast by Chris Urwin, Pac0
Vincent Gilbert Copley OAM 24/12/1936–10/1/20220
Community Archaeology: Working Ancient Aboriginal Wetlands in Eastern Australia0
Standing back, thinking forward, acting globally0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity0
W.E.H. Stanner: Selected Writings0
Why do students enrol in archaeology at Australian universities? Understanding pre-enrolment experiences, motivations, and career expectations0
Why wait until it’s too late? A precautionary tale for Indigenous cultural heritage protection in Australia0
The shifting sands of Aboriginal cultural heritage management in Western Australia0
Diversity is not a ‘tragedy’0
Pathways to the interior: Human settlement in the Simbai-Kaironk Valleys of the Madang Province, Papua New Guinea0
Co-authorship, collaboration and contestation in relation to Indigenous research0
Archaeology of Australia’s coastline: The role of geomorphology in the visibility and preservation of archaeological deposits on sandy shores, with a Gippsland case study0
Bioarchaeological analysis of a murder victim associated with the “Batavia” mutiny of 1629: The case of the ‘missing’ body0
Theresa (Tessa) Fitzgerald Corkill, 1935 to 20240
Correction0
Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice0
Histories of Australian Rock Art Research0
Forty Years in the South Seas: Archaeological Perspectives on the Human History of Papua New Guinea and the Western Pacific Region0
Events, trends and the ‘Pompeii Premise’: Telling stories of the Old Ancestors in Australian archaeology0
Everything new is old again: Archaeology and the social machine0
Kaurna Stone Artefacts: Some Methods of Analysis0
Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists0
Insights from a small sea cave: Reanalysis of the bone technology from Durras North, Yuin Country, Coastal New South Wales, Australia0
Working in archaeology in a changing world: Australian archaeology at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic0
Cast in a supporting role: The Australian Archaeological Association Inc. and national heritage legislation0
SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul0
The value of New Guinea in regional and global archaeological enquiry0
Dreaming Ecology: Nomadics and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, Victoria River, Northern Australia0
Social information inherent in backed artefacts from the Illawarra, western, and southwestern Sydney, NSW0
Year of the voice: Third space archaeology for decolonised interdisciplinary collaboration0
Will my boomerang come back? New insights into Aboriginal material culture of early Sydney and affiliated coastal zone from British collections0
Late Pleistocene scaphopod beads from Boodie Cave and deep time traditions of personal ornamentation in northwest Australia0
Peering through the looking glass: Future trends in Australian archaeology0
The case for a new national Indigenous heritage protection act0
Sawpits in the forest: A case study of a failed timber-getting operation during the nineteenth century0
Time is circular: The past, present and future of archaeology in Australia0
‘Other’ artefacts: Stone, bone and shell … glass, metal and ceramic0
Majumbu (‘Old Harry’) and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection0
Editorial0
Site formation processes of underfloor material preservation at Fremantle Prison, Western Australia0
Tragedy or transformation: Australian archaeology at the crossroads (again)0
Against ‘contact’0
Seeing and managing rock art at Nganjarli: A tourist destination in Murujuga National Park, Western Australia0
Everything, everywhere, everyday: The undisciplining of archaeology and heritage0
‘Do dead men tell no tales?’ The geographic origin of a colonial period Anglican cemetery population in Adelaide, South Australia, determined by isotope analyses0
Extracting new information from old stones: An analysis of three quarries in the semi-arid Pilbara region, northwest Australia0
Bursting the bubble: Reflecting on 50 years of maritime archaeological research in Queensland0
Contact-tracing in archaeology: Encountering power difference, the archaeological record and the writing of the past0
Australian archaeology at the cross-roads: The next 50 years0
From ‘Jane roughed it with the men’ – the last 50 years0
One complete system? Telegraphy, cybernetics and industrial archaeology0
Exploring the need and potential for national Indigenous heritage legislation in Australia0
Equity in publication is paramount: Editorial0
Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity0
Setting an agenda for the education for and of archaeological knowledge0
Weaving frames of knowledge0
Linear Naturalistic Figures: A new Mid-to-Late Holocene Aboriginal rock art style from the northeast Kimberley, Australia0
Experimental archaeologist, Wallace Raymond Ambrose 1933–20240
Earth oven cookery and cuisines in Aboriginal Australia: Ethnographic and ethnohistoric insights from Western Cape York Peninsula and the Southern Murray Darling Basin0
Response0
Jakarda Wuka (Too Many Stories): Narratives of Rock Art from Yanyuwa Country in Northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria0
Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia0
Launching archaeology into space and what it tells us about life on earth0
Conscientious archaeologies0
Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming—A Long and Short History of this Cultural Landscape with Reference to Rock Art, Stone Features, Excavations and Historical Sites Recorded across the Dampier Archipel0
The birthing of archaeology at The University of Queensland: A personal potted history of problem-solving by a returning ‘legal alien’0
WA’s heritage laws are failing—and it’s a national problem0
Response to comment on Ward et al.’s ‘Insights into the procurement and distribution of fossiliferous chert artefacts across southern Australia from the archival record’0
Making Indigenous Archaeology Indigenous: Will it ever happen?0
Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties: Researching Some of Australia’s Earliest Shipwrecks0
Aboriginal uses for introduced glass, ceramic and flint from the former Schofields Aerodrome, Western Sydney (Darug Country), New South Wales0
Response0
Garden Range 2: Taungurung rock art rockshelter site reveals 11,000 years of Aboriginal occupation of the Strathbogie Ranges, Central Victoria0
Who gets a voice? Who is listening? Who do we want to (continue to) include?0
Community-led research, public engagement, and open science in Australian archaeology0
It’s not about who has the loudest voice in the room: A reflection on the future of advocacy in Indigenous Australian archaeology0
Building on the past: Refining our current understanding of Lapita stilt structures0
Andrew Border (20 July 1954–11 March 2024): AB–archaeologist, cook, good bloke0
Keeping contact0
Beyond hinges and spires: A critical examination of archaeomalacological quantification methodologies using coral reef molluscan assemblages from Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group), northern Great Barrier0
Models can be helpful, but common sense may be enough0
Investigating Wiradjurimarara(carved trees or dendroglyphs) anddhabuganha(burials) in the Central Tablelands, southeastern Australia0
Koling wada ngal (let’s walk together): Reimagining Australian archaeology through the weaving together of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and academic colonialism0
Shaping the future of Australian archaeology: An Indigenous archaeologist’s perspective0
Bandwagons and bathwater0
Editorial: Open Access and great variety: Australian Archaeology into the next 50 years0
Archaeologies of the Heart0
Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 18980
‘Up to you … and your facile pens’: 50 years of Australian Archaeology0
The Archaeology of Tanamu 1: A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea0
Authorship, academia, and open access0
Experimental use-wear patterns on silcrete, bottle glass and porcelain plate tools0
The critical need for cultural heritage legislation reform: Reimagining the boundaries of change0
A short reflection on the past, present and future of stone artefact analysis in Australia0
The top-down approach is the only way to avoid going bottom-up0
‘Advancing the historical archaeology of Aboriginal Australia’: Comment on Tutchener and Claudie ‘Beyond ‘contact’ and shared landscapes in Australian archaeology’0
Changing perspectives: Towards a reflexive (and Indigenous) Australian archaeology0
A Holocene sequence from Walufeni Cave, Southern Highlands Province, and its implications for the settlement of the Great Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea0
How many Juukans? The case for heritage conservation strategies into the future0
Archaeology, deep history and the culture wars: Why most archaeologists have not critiquedDark Emu0
Authorship, attribution and acknowledgment in archaeology0
A recent date for the dog ( Canis familiaris ) from Mapala Rockshelter and implications for associated mammal community changes in subalpine Highland West New Guinea0
Reflecting on the transformative impact of Indigenous engagement in Northern Territory archaeology0
Understanding Chipped Stone Tools0
Fishboneviz: Enhancing the availability of zooarchaeological fish reference collections through an open access 3D database0
Editorial0
Through-water communication: Australian maritime archaeology in a changing world0
Beyond ‘contact’ and shared landscapes in Australian archaeology0
The tyranny of ‘interdisciplinarity’0
New braided knowledge understandings of an Aboriginal earth ring and biik wurrdha (Jacksons Creek, Sunbury) on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country, southeastern Australia0
Scratching the surface: Subtractive rock markings from the Cockburn Ranges, eastern Kimberley, Western Australia0
Morphological analysis and radiocarbon dating of non-returning boomerangs from Cooper Creek/Kinipapa (Northeast South Australia)0
Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia’s Immigrant Past0
A comment on Ward et al.’s ‘Insights into the procurement and distribution of fossiliferous chert artefacts across Southern Australia from the archival record’0
Disentangling ‘contact’, ‘colonialism’ and ‘cultural entanglement’0
Australian archaeology past, present and future0
Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW0
Blak emu0
Cultural Burning0
New data and syntheses for the zooarchaeological record from the Lower Murray River Gorge, South Australia: Applying a ngatji lens0
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