Seminars
Schedule of TARL seminars, workshops and one-off events.
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (JCU Node) / Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory / University of Papua New Guinea Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2021 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 1-2pm
Cairns: D3-063
Townsville: 004-132
NB: Archaeology-related events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
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5 February 2020 1-2pm Room: CNS B001-107 |
Owen Ray |
PhD candidature confirmation seminar: The rise and fall of a North Queensland mining town: Zoom link: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/82223428296?pwd=TiszbmlyNXB1M3NuQlg1dFdweDVaUT09 |
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26 February 2020 |
Joshua Connelly | Holocene technological organisation on the eastern Hamersley Plateau, Western Australia |
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5 March 2020 |
Geraldine Mate & Sean Ulm | Australian Archaeology in Profile: Summary results of the 2020 survey |
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12 March 2020 |
Sarah Collins |
Old Smithfield Township: The research story so far |
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19 March 2020 |
Michael Bird |
A global survey of the state isotope composition of human bone collagen |
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26 March 2020 |
Bob Wasson |
Almost everything is history: how the past can be used for the future |
| 2 April 2020 | No seminar | Easter Friday |
| 9 April 2020 | No seminar |
Semester Break |
| 16 April 2020 | Matthew Leavesley, Rob Skelly, Jerome
Mialanes
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TBA |
| 23 April 2020 | Nigel Chang | TBA |
| 30 April 2020 | Katherine Cameron | TBA |
| 7 May 2020 | Daniel England and Tate Devantier-Thomas |
TBA |
| 14 May 2020 | Jason Kariwiga | TBA |
| 21 May 2020 | TBA | TBA |
| 28 May 2020 | TBA | TBA |
Semester 1, 2020 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 1-2pm
Cairns: D003-063
Townsville: 004-132
NB: Archaeology-related events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
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4 February 2020 9-10am, TSV room 039-252; CNS room A1.129 |
Richard Wright | Recovering Australian War Dead from North Eastern France, Fromelles |
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28 February 2020 TSV room change: 145-030 |
Daniel Derouet |
An Archaeological Analysis of Cultural Sequences Dated to 1877-739 at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: Investigating Changing Settlement Patterns and Social Cohesion Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
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2-4 March 2020 Hilton Cairns |
Luke Godwin | CABAH RT&E: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Management: Plotting a Course; Knowing Your Tools and How to Use Them |
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5 March 2020 Hilton Cairns |
Michael Bird, Chris Wurster, Jennifer Whan |
CABAH RT&E: Stable Isotopes in Archaeological and Quaternary Research [You must be registered for this course to attend] |
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6 March 2020 CNS D3-063 |
Michael Bird, Chris Wurster, Jennifer Whan | CABAH RT&E: Stable Isotopes in Archaeological and Quaternary Research [You must be registered for this course to attend] |
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13 March 2020 |
Nigel Chang |
Archaeology, Communities and Landscape Transformation in the 2020s in Thailand Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 20 March 2020 | Matthew Leavesley |
The Papuan Pasts Project: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Investigating the Peopling of PNG Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 27 March 2020 | NO SEMINAR |
NO SEMINAR |
| 3 April 2020 | NO SEMINAR |
NO SEMINAR |
| 10 April 2020 | NO SEMINAR | GOOD FRIDAY |
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17 April 2020 |
NO SEMINAR |
NO SEMINAR |
| 24 April 2020 | NO SEMINAR | MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
| 1 May 2020 | Lauren Linnenlucke |
Applying Chronometric Quality Standards to Evaluate the Reliability of Data from Archaeological Sites in the Torres Strait Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 8 May 2020 | NO SEMINAR |
NO SEMINAR |
| 15 May 2020 | Olivia Arnold |
Dingaal Lizard Island Rock Art Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 22 May 2020 | Anna Kreij |
Characterising Fire Technologies on Kaiadilt Country using Satellite Data Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 29 May 2020 | Fiona Hook, Sean Ulm, Kim Akerman, Richard Fullagar |
Baler Shell Knives in Northern Australia: A Comparative Study of Archaeological, Experimental and Ethnographic Data Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
Semester 2, 2020 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 1-2pm
Cairns: D003- 054
Townsville: 145-030
NB: Archaeology-related events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
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31 July 2020
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Helen Ball |
Early States and their Pottery in Northeast Thailand (AD 300-800) Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
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7 August 2020 |
Cassandra Rowe |
Girraween Pollen Sequence Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
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14 August 2020 |
Redbird Ferguson |
Grinding Tools and Specialised Toolkits during Late-Lapita Settlement on Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
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21 August 2020 |
Owen Ray |
The Cultural Landscape of Mungana, Chillagoe, 1900-1958 Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
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28 August 2020 |
Patrick Moss |
People, Sea Levels and Salt Marsh – Environmental Change for the Last Millennia from the Coastal Salt Marshes of South East Australia Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 4 September 2020 | Maria Rivera Araya |
Multi-Proxy Evidence of Long-Term Environmental Change in Northern Australia's Tropical Savannas Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 11 September 2020 | Bob Wasson |
Palaeofloods for Mine Site Rehabilitation in Kakadu National Park, NT Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 18 September 2020 | Ting Li |
Climatological Inference from Geochemical Signatures (TOC, C/N ratio and δ13C) of Bulk Organic Matter at Lake Barrine, Australia Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 25 September 2020 | Pauline O’Keeffe and Jan Wegner |
Using the Cairns Historical Society Image and Document Collections for Research Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 2 October 2020 | NO SEMINAR | MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
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9 October 2020
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Ben Shaw |
New Evidence for Lapita Settlement of the Massim Islands in Eastern New Guinea: Chronology, Extent and Implications for Regional Cultural Developments Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 16 October 2020 | Katie Woo |
Shifting Palaeoeconomies in the East Alligator River Region Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 23 October 2020 | Roxanne Tsang |
Current Rock Art Themes in Papua New Guinea Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
| 30 October 2020 | Jonathan Benjamin |
Deep History of Sea Country Join via Zoom: https://jcu.zoom.us/j/181937725 |
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (JCU Node) / Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2019 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 1-2pm
Cairns: A3-002
Townsville: 134-102
NB: Archaeology-related events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2019 | Madeline McAlister | Seeing is Believing: image-based interpretation the problem of ‘digital realism’ in underwater archaeology |
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9 August 2019 TSV room change: 142-033 |
Gavin Singleton | Bulmba-wu maminga-lum - bio-cultural and heritage management through a Yirrganydji lens |
| 16 August 2019 | Kelly Wiltshire | Excavating Archaeology: Using Archival Film Footage to Ethnographically Study the Cultural Practice of Archaeology |
| 23 August 2019 | Madeline McAlister | Seeing is Believing: image-based interpretation the problem of ‘digital realism’ in underwater archaeology |
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30 August 2019 TSV room change: 142-033 |
Jonathan Benjamin | Prospecting for Submerged Archaeology on Australia's Continental Shelf: The Deep History of Sea Country |
| 2 September 2019 11.30am - 1pm | Lucy Pedersen | PhD CONFIRMATION SEMINAR: Chronological metamorphosis: An evaluation and revision of age-at-death estimation methods for human skeletal remains from a Southeast Asia population. TSV: 39-201 CNS: D1.123 |
| 6 September 2019 | Sarah Slater | Archaeological Mud Shell (Geloina expansa) on Kaiadilt Country, South Wellesley Islands |
| 13 September 2019 | Garth Abercrombie | Excavating an early Cycladic Marine Sanctuary in the Aegean: Keros Field School 2017 |
| 20 September 2019 | Das Sourav | An algorithm for characterization of a landslide |
| 27 September 2019 | Jon Nott | Grey swan tropical cyclones, palaeo-records and coastal planning and management |
| 4 October 2019 | NO SEMINAR | LECTURE RECESS |
| 11 October 2019 | Theodora Moutsiou and Christian Reepmeyer | Finding Palaeolithic sites on Cyprus |
| 18 October 2019 | Anna Willis | Unrecovered War Casualties - Army - Finding the Fallen |
| 25 October 2019 | Emma Rehn | Fire and Environmental Change in Northern Australia during the Late Holocene |
| 1 November 2019 | Michael Slack | Australian Archaeological Association Reconciliation Action Plan Workshop |
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (JCU Node) / Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2019 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 1-2pm
Cairns: A3-001
Townsville: 134-102
NB: Archaeology-related events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 22 February 2019 | Bronwen Forster and Claire Ovaska | Effective Library Research Methods in the Social Sciences [CNS: B1.104 / TSV: 2-102] |
| 1 March 2019 | Nigel Chang | Individual, family, site, ‘community’ or region? – thinking across spatial & social scale in prehistoric Laos & Thailand |
| 8 March 2019 | NO SEMINAR | CABAH JCU node research training & engagement week |
| 14 March 2019 | Anna Kreij | Making Kaiadilt Country: Investigating Long-Term Landscape Transformation [CNS: D003-063, TSV: 134-102] |
| 15 March 2019 | Rebecca Bliege Bird | We make country, and country makes us: Fire and the shaping of hunter gatherer social organization |
| 22 March 2019 | Ted Brandi and John Edgar | Townsville City Council Involvement with recent Archaeological Discoveries |
| 29 March 2019 |
Johnny Murison and Alice Buhrich |
The life and death of a rainforest dendroglyph |
| 5 April 2019 | Michael Bird & Sean Ulm | 'The Filling of the Continent': Modelling the Peopling of Sahul |
| 12 April 2019 | Russell Singleton | The rise and fall of Mega-Lake Eyre |
| 16 April 2019 10am |
Mojca Zega | Deep sand time capsules: past environmental records from sediments surrounding Gledswood Shelter 1, Northwest Queensland, Australia [10 am, CNS: E2-113, TSV: 134-102] |
| 19 April 2019 | NO SEMINAR | NO MEETING (public holiday) |
| 26 April 2019 | Geoff Bailey |
Coastal Colonisation and Australia: Key Questions in World Prehistory |
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3 May 2019 |
Robert Wasson | Palaeofloods, complexity and risk |
| 10 May 2019 | Ariana Lambrides | Zooarchaeological meta-analysis of Queensland’s Holocene Indigenous fisheries |
| 17 May 2019 | Kate Domett | The Bioarchaeology of Non Ban Jak, and Iron Age community in northeast Thailand |
| 24 May 2019 | Honours Confirmation and Exit seminars | Starting from 10am until 3pm, tentatively CAS B1-107 and TSV 040-105 |
| 31 May 2019 | Xennophon Hadeen | Climate Reconstruction in Northern Australia using biomarkers (alkanes) |
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (JCU Node) / Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2018 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 1-2pm
Cairns: D3-063
Townsville: 301-007 (Exception September where we have room 142-033)
NB: Archaeology-related events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2018 | NO SEMINAR | NO MEETING |
| 3 August 2018 | Maddy Fowler | UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: Highlights from the 2018 Meetings |
| 10 August 2018 | Robert Wasson | Time and Quaternary Studies: Convergence or Emergence? |
| 17 August 2018 | NO SEMINAR | NO MEETING |
| 24 August 2018 | Kate Domett | Trauma at Ban Non Wat: A Bioarchaeological Synthesis |
| 31 August 2018 | Keith Fifield | An Introduction to Cosmogenic Isotopes – Principles and Practice |
| 7 September 2018 | Maria Rivera Araya | TSV room 142-033 Highlights of the National Lacustrine Core Facility (LacCore) Summer Institute 2018 |
| 14 September 2018 | Katherine Cameron | TSV room 142-033 Potters and Miners: Investigating the Prehistoric Ceramics of the Vilabouly Complex of Ancient Copper Mining Sites (Sepon), Lao PDR |
| 21 September 2018 | Graeme Cotter | TSV room 142-033 The Enigma of Irvinebank Mining: A Study in Cultural Ecology |
| 24 September 2018 | Sean Ulm & Ian McNiven | CNS D3-150 An Update on the Lizard Island Archaeological Project: Investigating Dingaal Seascapes on the Great Barrier Reef in Far North Queensland |
| 28 September 2018 | NO SEMINAR | NO MEETING (lecture recess) |
| 5 October 2018 | Daryl Killin | The Burning Question of Savanna |
| 12 October 2018 | Texas Nagel | Using UAVs, Photogrammetry and GIS to Investigate Kaiadilt Aboriginal Stone-Walled Intertidal Fish Traps in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria |
| 19 October 2018 | Mojca Zega | The Impact of Human Activities on Dolines (Sinkholes) on Karst and Possibilities of their Preservation |
| 26 October 2018 | Martin Nakata | Tagai STEM Project |
Semester 1, 2018 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 1-2pm
Cairns: D3-063
Townsville: 009-002
NB: Archaeology-related events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21 February 2018 | Michael Bird |
TESS Seminar: Introducing the ARC Centre for Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) [NB: 4-5pm, Room D3.054 (CNS) with a live video link to Townsville ATSIP Theatre 145.030] |
| 23 February 2018 | Chris Wurster | Barriers and Bridges: The biogeographic theatre of SE Asia and its ever-changing stage |
| 2 March 2018 | Niels Munksgaard | Stable isotopes in precipitation and paleoclimatic archives in tropical areas to improve regional hydrological and climatic impact models - an IAEA program |
| 9 March 2018 | Costijn Zwart | There is more to rainfall isotopic variability than rainfall amount |
| 16 March 2018 | NO SEMINAR | NO MEETING |
| 21 March 2018 | Zenobia Jacobs |
TESS Seminar: Human occupation of Sahul by 65,000 years ago: Excavations, context and construction of the timeline for human occupation [NB: 4-5pm, Room D3.054 (CNS) with a live video link to Townsville ATSIP Theatre 145.030] |
| 23 March 2018 | Sarah Collins, Geraldine Mate & Sean Ulm | Scratched Surfaces: Dialogic Remains of Tangible and Ephemeral European Inscription across the Palimpsest Landscape of Sweers |
| 30 March 2018 | NO SEMINAR | NO MEETING – GOOD FRIDAY |
| 6 April 2018 | Nigel Chang | Big Test Pits: looking for the Neolithic at Non Ban Jak, a (mostly) Iron Age site in NE Thailand |
| 13 April 2018 | Simon Haberle | Sago production, human impacts, climate change, and ecological dynamics at Lake Kutubu: A new palaeoeoclogical record from the humid tropics of southern Papua New Guinea |
| 20 April 2018 |
Jim O'Connell Jim Allen |
(Lecture recess) On the purported 65 ka archaeological date from Madjedbebe (formerly Malakunanja II) |
| 27 April 2018 | Lauren Linnenlucke | Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene human occupation sites in the Dhofar region of Oman |
| 4 May 2018 | Anna Hayes | Heritage Lost: The Destruction of Old Kashgar |
| 11 May 2018 | Ariana Lambrides | Archaeological tuna records and the implications for assessing ENSO variability in the western and central Pacific Ocean: a case study from the Marshall Islands, Micronesia |
| 18 May 2018 | Graeme Cotter | Experimental Archaeology: An Evaluation of the Impact of Human Trampling on an Archaeological Deposit |
| 25 May 2018 | Nathan Woolford | Our Genomes, Our Heritage |
Semester 2, 2017 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 4-5pm
Cairns: B001-107
Townsville: 004-006
NB: Events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2017 | Michael Bird |
Getting into Print in the Sciences [NB: 12pm-2pm, Room D3-063 (CNS) / 145-030 (TSV)] |
| 2 August 2017 | Sean Ulm |
Getting into Print in the Humanities and Social Sciences [NB: 2pm-4pm, Room D3-063 (CNS) / 145-030 (TSV)] |
| 4 August 2017 | Paul Dirks & Eric Roberts | Homo naledi’s surprisingly young age and its implications for human evolution |
| 11 August 2017 | Sandra Boswell | Analysis of 17th and 18th Century Laos Pottery Motifs |
| 18 August 2017 | Maria Jose Rivera Araya | Assessing Stable Isotope Data from Archaeological White-Tailed Deer Remains as a Palaeoenvironmental Proxy at the Site of La Joyanca, Northwestern Peten, Yucatan Peninsula |
| 25 August 2017 | Michael Bird & Sean Ulm | Transforming our Understanding of Australia's Indigenous Heritage and Environmental Past: Introducing the New ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage |
| 1 September 2017 | Sean Ulm & Ian McNiven | An Update on the Lizard Island Archaeological Project: Investigating Dingaal Seascapes on the Great Barrier Reef, Far North Queensland |
| 8 September 2017 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
| 15 September 2017 | Fiona Petchey | Dating the First Settlement of Remote Oceania |
| 20 September 2017 | Peter Veth | TESS Seminar: The Archaeology of Barrow Island: The Atlantis of the Northern Australia [NB: 4-5pm, Room D3.054 (CNS) with a live video link to Townsville ATSIP Theatre 145.030] |
| 22 September 2017 | Jo McDonald | Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming |
| 29 September 2017 | No seminar scheduled | |
| 6 October 2017 | Cassandra Rowe |
Sinkholes, swamps and savanna: a palaeoecological update. |
| 13 October 2017 | No seminar scheduled | |
| 20 October 2017 | Theodora Moutsiou | Raw Material Movement in Early Holocene Mediterranean Seascapes: the view from Cyprus |
| 27 October 2017 | No seminar scheduled |
Semester 1, 2017 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 3-4pm
Cairns: B001-107
Townsville: Week 1: 009-001; Week 2 onwards: ATSIP room 145-030
NB: Events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10 February 2017 | Shimona Kealey |
Views from Shores Past: Palaeogeographic Reconstructions as an Aid for Interpreting the Movement of Early Modern Humans on and Between the Islands of Wallacea [NB: 3pm, Room B1-107 (CNS), TBA (TSV) |
| 24 February 2017 | Tahnee Innes |
PhD CONFIRMATION SEMINAR: Curating Country: Storied Artefacts and Aboriginal Collecting [NB: 2-3pm, Room A4.002 (CNS) / 4-006 (TNS)] |
| 24 February 2017 | Maddy Fowler | "Maritime" Archaeology at Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission/Burgiyana |
| 28 February 2017 | Texas Nagel |
PhD CONFIRMATION SEMINAR: Engineered Land and Seascapes: Using UAVs and Photogrammetry to Investigate Kaiadilt Aboriginal Stone-Walled Intertidal Fish Traps in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria [NB: 10-11am, Room D3.003 (CNS) / 134-105 (TNS)] |
| 3 March 2017 | Sam Aird |
Lightning Strikes and Green Ant Nests: 5 Months Searching for Archaeological Sites in the Remote Lizard Island Group, Great Barrier Reef |
| 10 March 2017 | Redbird Ferguson and Christian Reepmeyer | A Tonga Fieldwork Update |
| 17 March 2017 | Nigel Chang and friends |
Do I have to start getting interested in these damn pottery sherds....? |
| 21 March | Sam Aird |
PhD CONFIRMATION SEMINAR: Long-Term Aboriginal Marine Resource Use on the Great Barrier Reef: An Archaeozoological Approach to Characterising Impacts [NB: 10-11am, Room D3.063 (CNS) / 134-102 (TNS)] |
| 24 March 2017 | Emma Rehn | Fire and Environmental Change in Northern Australia during the Late Holocene |
| 31 March 2017 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
| 7 April 2017 | Paul Dirks and Eric Roberts | [Title update] Difficulties and pitfalls of dating hominin fossils in caves |
| 14 April 2017 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – GOOD FRIDAY |
| 21 April 2017 | Nick Roberts |
Bridging the Divide in Heritage: Cultural Heritage Management at the Sepon Gold and Copper Mine, Lao PDR. |
| 28 April 2017 | Robin Torrence | 'Excavating' Ethnographic Collections to Reconstruct Indigenous Perspectives on Colonialism |
| 5 May 2017 | Texas Nagel |
Stones in the Sea: Using UAVs and Photogrammetry to Investigate Kaiadilt Aboriginal Stone-Walled Intertidal Fish Traps in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria |
| 12 May 2017 | Michael Bird | A Geologist's View of Human Dispersal Routes to Sahul |
| 19 May 2017 | Anna Willis | An Osteobiography of an Individual from the Bronze Age Site of Nyaung’gan, Myanmar |
| 26 May 2017 | Cailey Maclaurin | Magic Molluscs: Illuminating Mollusc Pigment Patterning Using Ultraviolet Fluorescence |
Semester 2, 2016 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 2-3pm
Cairns: A21-002
Townsville: 009-002
NB: Events that are not part of the Friday TARL Seminar Series are in italics.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 12 July 2016 | Robin Twaddle | PhD PRE-COMPLETION SEMINAR: A Novel Application of Sclerochronology and Scleroisotope Analysis: Forging New Understandings of Aboriginal Occupation in the South Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria [NB: 9:30am-10:30am, Room A21-002 (CNS) / 009-001 (TNS)] |
| 29 July 2016 | Lynley Wallis | Investigating the Painted Rock Art of the Central Pilbara |
| 5 August 2016 | Christa Placzek | An Update on Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Research on Barrow Island, Northwest Australia |
| 10 August 2016 | Gordon Stenhouse | PhD PRE-COMPLETION SEMINAR: Zooarchaeological Analysis of Animal Resources in the Upper Mun River Valley, Northeast Thailand: A Shift from Wild to Domestic [NB: 2-3pm, Room A21-002 (CNS) / 145-030 (TNS)] |
| 10 August 2016 | Jim O'Connell | TESS Seminar: The Restaurant Revisited: More on Modeling the Human Colonization of Pleistocene Sahul [NB: 4-5pm, Room A3.2 (CNS) with a live video link to the Townsville Audiovisual Services Room 002 (9-002)] |
| 12 August 2016 | Christian Reepmeyer | The Potential of QEMSCAN and GEOBIA (Object Based Image Analysis) for the Identification of Temper Grains in Ceramics |
| 19 August 2016 | Matthew Felgate |
Studying Change through Time AD1400-AD1720, at Tamaki, Auckland, NZ: Radiocarbon Calibration, or why Never to believe an Archaeologist |
| 26 August 2016 | Redbird Ferguson | An AINSE Winter School Experience |
| 2 September 2016 | Collin Storlie | How the eResearch Centre and Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation can Power-Up Archaeological Research |
| 9 September | Rainer Grün | Direct Dating of Human Fossills [NB: 1-2pm, Room 145-030 (TVS) / A21.001 (CNS)] |
| 9 September 2016 | Nikki Winn | Boundaries, Connections and Cultural Heritage Management Challenges: The Rock Art of the Chillagoe-Mungana Limestone Belt, North Queensland |
| 16 September 2016 | Texas Nagel | Engineered Land and Seascapes: Using UAVs and Photogrammetry to Investigate Kaiadilt Aboriginal Stone-Walled Intertidal Fish traps in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria |
| 21 September 2016 | Mike Rowland | TESS Seminar: Confessions of an 'Environmental Determinist' (sic) [NB: 4-5pm, Room A3.2 (CNS) with a live video link to the Townsville Audiovisual Services Room 002 (9-002)] |
| 23 September 2016 | Mike Rowland | 'Crows', Swimming Logs and Auditory Exostoses: Aboriginal Occupation of the Keppel Islands, Central Queensland Coast |
| 30 September 2016 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
| 5 October 2016 | Alan Williams | TESS Seminar: Population and Mobility of Prehistoric Australia – Developing a Regional Framework for Archaeological and Palaeo-Climatic Correlations [NB: 4-5pm, Room A3.2 (CNS) with a live video link to the Townsville Audiovisual Services Room 002 (9-002)] |
| 6 October 2016 | Sean Ulm | Inaugural Professorial Lecture: The Deep History of Sea Country: Colonisation, Submerged Landscapes and the Archaeology of Australia's Coasts [NB: 6-8pm, Pullman Cairns International] |
| 7 October 2016 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING |
| 14 October 2016 | Karen Joyce | Trials and Tribulations of using Drones and Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring |
| 21 October 2016 | Nigel Chang and Friends | Updates on JCU Archaeology in Laos: Two and a Half Projects |
| 26 October 2016 | Selene Kenady | PhD PRE-COMPLETION SEMINAR: Geophysical Explorations of Archaeological Shell Matrix Sites: Evaluating Geophysical Techniques in Determining the Boundaries, Structure and Volume of Buried Shell Deposits [NB: 1-2pm, Room D3-003 (CNS) / 134-105 (TNS)] |
| 28 October 2016 | Theodora Moutsiou | The Obsidian Evidence for the Scale of Social Life during the Palaeolithic |
| 10 November 2016 | Alice Buhrich | PhD PRE-COMPLETION SEMINAR: Art and Identity: Aboriginal Rock Art and Dendroglyphs of Queensland's Wet Tropics [NB: 10-11am, Room A21-002 (CNS) / 9-001 (TNS)] |
| 14 November 2016 | Jonathan Walz | An Archaeology of Africa-Indian Ocean Entanglement Inland of the Swahili Coast, Tanzania, c.AD 750-1350 [NB: 3-4pm, Room A21.002 (CNS) / 009.001 (TNS)] |
Semester 1, 2016 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 2-3pm (*NB: CHANGE OF TIME THIS YEAR*)
Cairns: A21-002
Townsville: 009-002
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 26 February 2016 | Michelle Richards | Understanding the Distribution and Popularity of Pacific 'Greenstone' Adzes |
| 2 March 2016 | Helene Peck | PhD PRE-COMPLETION SEMINAR: The Application of Ecological Models and Trophic Analyses to Archaeological Marine Fauna Assemblages: Towards Improved Understandings of Prehistoric Marine Fisheries and Ecosystems in Tropical Australia [NB: Room A21-001 (CNS) / 009-001 (TNS) |
| 4 March 2016 | Luke Godwin and Ian McNiven | Strands of Connection: Darumbal Native Title and the Management of Marine Resources |
| 11 March 2016 | Clair Davey | An Examination of the Lithic Assemblages of Dhaba, India (78-22kya): Evidence for Lithic Continuity in Pre- and Post-Toba Environments |
| 18 March 2016 | Galiina (Kal) Ellwood | Aboriginal Miner-Prospectors: Continuity, Choice and Technology Transfer in North Queensland Mining Provinces |
| 25 March 2016 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – GOOD FRIDAY |
| 1 April 2016 | Geoff Clark | Human Colonisation of Oceanic Islands in Prehistory: A Trans-Oceanic Analysis |
| 8 April 2016 | Emilie Dotte | 'From the Pilbara to Tahiti with a Microscope (and a Saw)': Developing Anthracology in Oceania: Recent Projects Conducted in Australia and the Pacific |
| 15 April 2016 | Noelene Cole | National Heritage Listing of Quinkan Rock Art: An Archaeological Perspective |
| 22 April 2016 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
| 29 April 2016 | James Moloney | GIS and Remote Sensing in Archaeology and Resource Management in Northeast Thailand |
| 6 May 2016 | Michael Westaway | Human Evolution in Sunda and Sahul |
| 12 May 2016 | Catherine Livingston | PhD CONFIRMATION SEMINAR: Who were the People of Prehistoric Vilabouly? Exploring Origins and Relationships through Archaeometallurgy [NB: Room 004-006 (TVS) / B1-107 (CNS) |
| 13 May 2016 | Greg Siepen and Alice Buhrich | Professional Workshop on Aboriginal Scarred Trees: Significance, Conservation and Management of Veteran Eucalypts in the Landscape (All Day Event) |
| 20 May 2016 | Jan Wegner |
Mining Remains in Queensland, 1870s-1920s: What's the Story? |
| 27 May 2016 | Michael Bird | Humans, Megafauna and Environmental Change in Tropical Australia |
| 30 June 2016 | Puangtip Kerdsap | PhD PRE-COMPLETION SEMINAR: Everyday Life in Prehistoric Thailand: What can the Spindle Whorls tell us? [NB: Room B1-031 (CNS) / 009-001 (TNS) |
Semester 2, 2015 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 3-4pm
Cairns: B1.107
Townsville: Education Central, Room 102
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2015 | Sean Ulm | Naïve Island Landscapes: Recent Research in the South Wellesley Archipelago, Southern Gulf of Carpentaria |
| 7 August 2015 | Belinda Duke | Applying Social Memory in the Interpretations of Social and Environmental Change at the Mound Site Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand |
| 14 August 2015 | Åsa Ferrier | Journeys into the Rainforest: Archaeology, Ethnography and Palaeoecology on the Atherton/Evelyn Tableland, Far North Queensland |
| 21 August 2015 | Geraldine Mate & Sean Ulm | Professional Archaeology as a Shifting Mosaic: Results of the 2015 Australian Archaeology in Profile Survey |
| 28 August 2015 | Christian Reepmeyer | The Talasiu site on Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga: Investigating the Ancestral Polynesian Society |
| 4 September 2015 | Robin Twaddle | Using Polymesoda coaxans for Radiocarbon Dating and as an Environmental Proxy in Tropical Northern Australia |
| 11 September 2015 | Sam Aird & Redbird Ferguson | Reflecting on Attending the 8th International Lapita Conference, Port Vila, Vanuatu: A Pathway to Analysing the Arapus Shellfish Assemblage and Community Engagement |
| 18 September 2015 | Nigel Chang | New Research in Thailand and Lao |
| 25 September 2015 | Lucy Pedersen | Evidence for Conflict in Prehistoric Southeast Asia: A Life of Conflict or Peace? |
| 2 October 2015 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
| 9 October 2015 | Gordon Grimwade | Battlegrounds of the Southern Torres Strait: Archaeology and Conservation |
| 16 October 2015 | Anna Kreij | High Resolution UAS Photogrammetry of Indigenous Stone-Walled Tidal Fishtraps in Northern Australia – Behind the Scenes |
| 23 October | Paul Dirks | Discovering Homo naledi |
| 30 October 2015 | René Vellanoweth |
Integrating Technology, Economy, Exchange, and Religion: Understanding Native American Sites on the California Channel Islands |
Semester 1, 2015 Seminar Series Schedule
Fridays, 3-4pm
Cairns: A21.002*
Townsville: Audio Visual Services room 001 (9-001)*
* Room changes for special events noted below.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2015 | Sean Ulm | Introduction to TARL |
| 6 March 2015 | Nigel Chang | Archaeology on the 'Plain of Jars', Lao PDR: New Sites, New Sources of Support and New Opportunities for JCU Students |
| 13 March 2015 | Sean Ulm | Naïve Island Landscapes: Recent Research in the South Wellesley Archipelago, Southern Gulf of Carpentaria |
| 20 March 2015 | Alison Fitzpatrick | Stone Arrangements in the Lizard Island Group: Results from a Study of Indigenous Seascapes in Northeastern Australia |
| 27 March 2015 | Marianne Clarkson | The Ceramics from Hervey Range: An Assessment of Gentility |
| 3 April 2015 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – GOOD FRIDAY |
| 10 April 2015 | Shelley Greer | 'Sense & Sensibility': Heritage in the Australian Tropics |
| 17 April 2015 | Kate Cameron | Through the Looking Glass: Unlocking the Secrets of an Ancient Mining Society through Ceramic Studies |
| 24 April 2015 | Kate Domett | A Synthesis of Bioarchaeological Research in Cambodia: Regional Significance |
| 1 May 2015 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING – MID-SEMESTER BREAK |
| 8 May 2015 | Clair Davey | Technological Changes during the Pleistocene in South Asia |
| 15 May 2015 | Cassandra Rowe | Weipa's Water and Woodlands: A Palaeoenvironmental History of Big Willum Swamp |
| 22 May 2015 | Paul Dirks | Hominin Distribution and the Evolving Landscape in Southern Africa |
| 23 May 2015 | Clair Davey | Workshop: Advanced Stone Artefact Analysis Workshop * Room A4.204 |
| 27 May 2015 | Christian Reepmeyer | TESS Seminar: Climate Change in the Abandonment of Islands: Understanding Human Responses and Population Dynamics in Palau, Micronesia * A3.2 (Cairns) / 9-002 (Townsville) |
| 29 May 2015 | Christian Reepmeyer | An Update on Island Southeast Asian and Pacific Archaeology: Current Projects and Perspectives |
| 30 May 2015 | Selene Kenady | Workshop: Excavating and Constructing a Geophysical Test Plot at JCU Cairns |
Prospecting for submerged archaeology on Australia’s continental shelf: the Deep History of Sea Country