Full Program
Tuesday 6 December
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Charles Darwin University, City Campus
Intercultural Communication Workshop
1:30pm – 2:15pm and
3:00pm – 3:45pm
MAGNT, 19 Conacher St, The Gardens
Behind of Scenes Tour of Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory (MAGNT)
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Precinct Tavern, Darwin Waterfront
Welcome Reception and
Welcome to Country – Aunty June Mills, Larrakia Elder
Sponsored by La Trobe University
Wednesday 7 December
8:45am – 9:00am
Waterfront Room
Conference Opening – Dr Joe Dortch, AAA President
9:00am – 10:00am
Waterfront Room
Plenary Session –
Complicating Contact: Archaeology Across Humanity’s Last Great Global Interface
Professor Alastair Paterson
10:00am – 10:30am
Waterfront Foyer
MORNING TEA
10:30am – 12:30pm
Waterfront 1
Beyond Compliance: The Changing Practice of Cultural Heritage Management
Waterfront 2
Human-Environment Interactions: A Joint Session for the Australian Archaeology Association and Australasian Quaternary Association
Waterfront 3
After Archaeology in Practice: Student Research in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management
Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Investigations of Stony Rises on Wurundjeri Country, Victoria: The Results of the Lockerbie Salvage Project
Amanda Goldfarb
Investigating the Multi-Regional Emergence of Social and Economic Complexity Across Diverse Australian Environments
Michael Westaway
Connecting the Dots on the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
Lily Nash
Building Predictive Models: Applying Geospatial Multi Criteria Analysis to Articulate Expectations of the Nature and Distribution of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in Diverse Victorian Landscapes
Stacey Kennedy
Human-Environment Interactions in the Far Eastern New Guinea islands (Massim Region) Since the Last Glacial Maximum
Ben Shaw
Volunteers ADD Value
Jacinta Warland
The Aboriginal Cultural Values and Significance Assessment of Cardinia Creek
David Tutchener
Geomorphological Processes and Post-Depositional Movement on Stony Rises in Wurundjeri Country, Victoria
Racheal Minos
An Australian Proposal for Project Elvi: Veteran Wellibeng and Recovery Through Participation in Archaeology
Clara Santilli
Njale Dabbolk Birri-Nang? Contact Art in the Warddeken IPA
Chester Clarke
The Use of High-Magnification Microscopy in Identifying the Impacts of Carnivores in Faunal Assemblages
Lauren Cunningham
Water Wise: Learning from Past Resource Management in the Ethiopian Highlands
Stella Quast
Listening and Hearing: Lessons Learned from a Collaborative Approach to Mine and Large Infrastructure Developments
Glen Wingfield
The Microstratigraphy of Tam, Pa Ling Cave, Laos: Situating Early Humans Within the Changing Tropical Environment
Vito Hernandez
The Art of Science: A Love Letter to Teeth in all their Beauty
Marian Bailey
DISCUSSION
Recent Developments from the Submerged Cultural Landscape of Murujuga Sea Country, Northwest Shelf (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia
Jonathan Benjamin
DISCUSSION
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Waterfront Foyer
LUNCH & BOOK LAUNCH – HISTORIES OF AUSTRALIAN ROCK ART RESEARCH
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Waterfront 1
Beyond Compliance: The Changing Practice of Cultural Heritage Management
Waterfront 2
Human-Environment Interactions: A Joint Session for the Australian Archaeology Association and Australasian Quaternary Association
Waterfront 3
Once Upon a Time in the West: 50,000 Years of Contact
Changing the Way We Work due to Climate Change: Understanding the Risk of Extreme Wet-Bulb Temperature (Tw) Events
Lucia Clayton
ARCAS State of the Art: Archaeological Science in Australasia in 2022
Rachel Popelka-Filcoff
The Persistent Acacia and the Important Role of Anthracology in Australian Archaeology
Chae Byrne
Forest for the Trees: LiDAR Scanning and Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage Sites
Emma James
Perched Springline Tufas Reveal a Warm-Wet Palaeoclimate for First Australians on the Late Quaternary Darling Downs, Southeast Queensland
Jessica Gibbs
Four Yindjibarndi Artefacts: Evidence of Religious Practices for a Discrete Human Community in the Pilbara
Philip Davies
A New Method to Age Culturally Modified Trees in Australia
Abby Cavanagh
Proxies, Models, and People: Using Transient iTrace Climate Models to Disentangle Proxy and Archaeological Records During the Penultimate Deglacial in Australia
Haidee Cadd
Finding Grasses in the Rock Art of Balanggarra Country, Kimberley, Northwest Australia
Emily Grey
Sap or Scars? The Curious Case of Modified Trees in the Balranald Area, NSW
Rhiannon Stammers
SahulArch: Age Determinations for Archaeological Sites from Sahul in the OCTOPUS Database
Emma Rehn
Scratching the Surface in the Cockburn Ranges, Balanggarra Country
Sam Harper
Looking to the Past to Strengthen the Future: Providing Opportunities to Engage in Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Research and Education
Tom Dooley
Kimberley Monsoon Rainforests: New Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Records from North-Western Australia
Rachel Rudd
The First 50,000 and the last 10,000 Years at Murujuga: A New Model for Coastal Occupation and Rock Art Production
Jo McDonald
DISCUSSION
Preservation Prevails at Tam Pà Ling, Laos: Reconstructing Palaeovegetation Dynamics Via Higher Plant Biomarkers Offer New Insights into Environmental Variability Across MIS 3-MIS 1
Meghan McAllister
DISCUSSION
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Waterfront Foyer
AFTERNOON TEA
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Waterfront 1
Unusual Encounters: Exploring the Impact of Inter-Human Species Interactions Throughout Human Evolution
Waterfront 3
Once Upon a Time in the West: 50,000 Years of Contact
Inter-Group and Inter-Species Interaction in Africa During the Middle Stone Age
Jayne Wilkins
The Highlanders: Eastern Guruma Country and People Through the Last Glacial Maximum
Kathryn Przywolnik
The Configuration of the Back in Stone Tool Technology: Tracing Hominin’s Technical Innovation in Time and Space
Davide Delpiano
Built Structures, Wooden Spear Tips, and Stone Artefacts: 40,000 Years at Pinarra Creek – A Puutu Kunti Kurrama Narrative
Wendy Reynen
Raptors Claws, a Neanderthal Brand: A Discussion Around Shared Practices Across Human Communities in Southern Europe
Marco Peresani
Yirra 50,000 Years On: A Non-Compliance Cultural Heritage Project in the Pilbara
Fiona Hook
5:00pm – 5:30pm
Waterfront 1
NSCRAA Meeting
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Waterfront 2
Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc (AACAI) Annual General Meeting
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Precinct Tavern, Darwin Waterfront
Careers Night
Thursday 8 December
8:30am – 9:00am
Waterfront Room
A Tribute to Mike Smith
9:00am – 10:00am
Waterfront Room
Plenary Session –
Risk vs Reward: The Relative Value of World Heritage Listing
Peter Jeffries and Amy Stevens, Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation
Moderatored by Jo McDonald, The University of Western Australia
10:00am – 10:30am
Waterfront Foyer
MORNING TEA
10:30am – 12:30pm
Waterfront 1
Global Contacts: Australian Archaeology in Transnational Perspective
Waterfront 2
Making Contact with Reality: How has Aboriginal Heritage Legislation Changed Since the Destruction of Juukan Gorge Sites?
Waterfront 3
Self-Determination Through Digital Archaeology
Transnational Institutions of Immigration
Kimberley Connor
Analysis of Systemic Problems in the Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 That Have Lead to Failures to Protect Aboriginal Heritage in the Past, and are Likely to Continue to Adversely Affect Heritage in the Future
Samantha Cranwell
With Great Data Comes Great Digital Responsibility
Emma Beckett
Untangling the Transnational Entanglements of Colonising Fruit: Peaches in Early to Mid-19th Century New South Wales
Nicholas Pitt
Protecting Aboriginal Heritage Under the Provisions of the Draft NSW Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill: The Proof of the Pudding
Sharon Hodgetts
Is Deep Learning and GIS Able to Empower Traditional Owners: A Case Study of Mound Location in the Murray Valley National Park
William Andrews
Lamb Shanks and Localisation: Exploring Group Identity Through Animal Food Remains from Chinese and European Contexts in Late 19th/Early 20th Century Brisbane
Marc Cheeseman
Revisiting Heritage Management in the Northern Territory: Recent Innovations Via the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act 1989
Lynley Wallis
The Kowanyama Project: Sharing One of Australia’s Most Unique and Rare Collections
David McGahan
Diagnosis as an Artefact: A Case Study to Determine the Meaning of ‘Ague’ and ‘Remittent Fever’ in Nineteenth Century Victoria
Phillip Roberts
Responding to New Legislation in WA: Changing the Narrative
Joe Dortch
Learnings in Lost Cost LiDAR
Nikolajs Svede
Race and Crime: Parallel 19th Century Systems for the Transportation of British and Indian Convicts
Sean Winter
Aboriginal People and Archaeologists: A Developing Partnership in Western Australia
Ken Hayward
Bark, Boabs and Bytes
Ursula Frederick
The Awful Lines of Empire: Convicts, Cotton and the Fabric of Globalisation
Eleanor Casella
A National Perspective on Indigenous Heritage Legislation in 2022: A Snapshot of the Status of National Level Indigenous Heritage Legislation, and a Comparative Review of State and National Legislation in the Light of Best Heritage Practice
Anne McConnell
DISCUSSION
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Waterfront Foyer
LUNCH
Sponsored by CABAH/Australian National University
12:45pm – 1:15pm
State of the Environment Report Presentation
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Waterfront 1
Untangling Encounters: Sharing Teaching and Learning Journeys in Archaeology and Heritage
Waterfront 2
Archaeology in the Top End
Waterfront 3
Self-Determination Through Digital Archaeology
Sharing Archaeological Digging by Colin Ahoy, John Appleton, Wendy Beck and the AAGG Team
Wendy Beck
The Last Rock Painters of Kakadu Revisited: The Work of David Canari
Paul Tacon
Burral Burral – A Story of the Artist and the Archaeologist: Using Contemporary Arts Practice and Digital Archaeology to Assist with Repatriation of Cultural Knowledges
Dylan Sarra
Sharing On-Campus and Off-Campus Spaces in Teaching Archaeological Field Skills at the University of Queensland
Tiina Manne
Distribution and Characteristics of Dugout Canoes in Rock and Bark Art, Northern Territory, Australia
Siena Gwillim
The Guam Rock Art Study: Integrating Digital Archaeology and Community Engagement
Andrea Jalandoni
Archaeology and Science Communication: A Perfect Pairing
Serena Love
Weaving Dynamic Stories
Emily Miller
Flinders Island Rock Art: How Digital Technology is Changing Fieldwork Methodology
Olivia Arnold
Bringing Stories to Life: Cultural and Environmental Heritage Education Through the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
Georgia Stannard
The MAGNT Archaeology Collection and its Interconnection with the Broader History and Culture Collection
Kerry Nancarrow
A Comparison of Structure from Motion Photogrammetry and Neural Radiance Fields for 3-D Reconstruction of Rock Art
Calum Farrar
Archaeology and Primary Education: Experiences of Teachers and Archaeologists
Aisling Beale
Shaping Mabaluk: The Intensive Maritime Cultural Landscape, Stone Weir Fishing Structures and the Human and Dreaming (Therrawin) Ancestors at Cape Ford, Northern Territory, a Preliminary Report
Elizabeth Povinelli
Digital Methods in Rock Art: Recording, Understanding and Visualizing Rock Art and its Place in the Landscape
Jarrad Kowlessar
DISCUSSION
Japanese Pearling off the Northern Territory Coast and the Wreck of the Sanyo Maru: Implications for Contact Archaeology
David Steinberg
DISCUSSION
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Waterfront Foyer
AFTERNOON TEA
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Waterfront 1
Untangling Encounters: Sharing Teaching and Learning Journeys in Archaeology and Heritage
Waterfront 2
National Archaeology Week Meeting
Waterfront 3
Australian Archaeology Journal Meeting
Beyond Historiography: Archaeology Education and the Decolonisation of the History Curriculum
Georgia Williams
Teaching and Learning Indigenous Archaeology in Australia: Untangling a Shared Journey
Melissa Marshall
Untangling Encounters: Sharing Teaching and Learning Journeys in Archaeology and Heritage
Panel Discussion
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) Annual General Meeting
Friday 9 December
9:00am – 10:00am
Plenary Session –
A Journey Through Time
Denis Rose and William Bell, Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
Moderatored by by Simon Crocker, Department of Premier and Cabinet
10:00am – 10:30am
Waterfront Foyer
MORNING TEA
10:30am – 12:30pm
Waterfront 1
Entangled Animal-People Encounters in Australasia
Waterfront 2
Archaeological Science Insights into Contact and Interaction: The ARCAS Network Session
Waterfront 3
The Archaeology of First Nation Peoples and Post-Contact Entanglements in Australasia
Entangled Cassowary-Human Encounters in Papua New Guinea: Bone Dagger Stencil and (Re)production of Narratives
Roxanne Tsang
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Investigation at the Framlingham Aboriginal Station Burial Ground
Craig Edwards
Uncommon Knots: The Glass Bead Assemblage from Madjedbebe
Mirani Litster
Zoomorphic Rock Art in the Central Asian Karakoram Mountain Range
Michael Kneppers
Contact, Collaborations, and Calibrations: An Australasian pXRF Researchers Collective
Alana Pengilley
‘Contact’ Rock Art and the Hybrid Economy Model: Interpreting Introduced Subject Matter from Marra Country, Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Liam Brady
The Entangled Stone Arrangements of Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group), Northeast Queensland
Joshua Connelly
Beyond the Main Function: An Experimental Study of the Use of Hardwood Boomerangs in Retouching Activities
Eva Francesca Martellotta
The Archaeology of Entanglement in the Western Gulf of Papua
Lara Lamb
Investigating Sea Urchin Exploitation at South Island, Lizard Island Group
Sarah Morgan
Investigating Wiradjuri Carved Trees (Dendroglyphs) and Symbolic Burial Practices in the Central Tablelands, Southeastern Australia
Caroline Spry
Disentangling Contact Rock Art: Biographical Perspectives from Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Joakim Goldhahn
Provisioning a Colonial Household: How Diet Reflects Changing Social, Economic, and Environmental Pressures on Sydney’s Rocks Neighbourhood
Finn Tobin
Porronggitj Karrong Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction: A Record of Sea Level Rise and Estuarine Interruption on the Victorian Coast
Matthew Meredith-Williams
Evidence of Contact Archaeology in the Illawarra?
Taylor Foster
DISCUSSION
DISCUSSION
A First Nations ‘Library’?: The Documenting of Technological Change in Ships Through Rock Art at Djulirri, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Samuel Dix
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Waterfront Foyer
LUNCH
Sponsored by Portable Spectral Services
1:30pm – 3:30pm
Waterfront 1
Entangled Animal-People Encounters in Australasia
Waterfront 2
Voices from the Footnotes of Entangled Encounters: Stories of Often-Forgotten Participants in the History of Archaeology
Waterfront 3
The Problem and Promise of Archaeology
Dingoes: Companions in Life and Death
Loukas Koungoulos
Arthur J. Vogan: Australia’s Forgotten First Archaeologist and His Entangled Life
Denis Gojak
A Review of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory’s Archaeology Collection
Rebecca Mirams
Cloak Stories: Bunya Cloak Production and Trade on Yung Balug Country, Central Victoria
Jillian Garvey
The Soul of the World: Missionary and Indigenous Contributors to the Australian and Oceanian Collections of the Vatican’s Anima Mundi Museum
Katherine Aigner
Reconnecting Mission Site Histories on Noongar Boodjar
Janet Osborne
Species Identification of Worked Bone Artefacts Excavated from Pyrmont, Australia, Using Protein Mass Spectrometry
Dylan H. Multari
Forgotten Finders: Perspectives from Non-Archaeologists About Heritage Discoveries and Protections
Sally Hurst
The Promise of Open Access Archaeology
Bengi Selvi-Lamb
The Future of Quantitative Specimen Identification in Australian Zooarchaeology
Erin Mein
An Axe Collected by William Dampier from West New Britain in 1699: Examining the First Cross-Cultural Engagements in Papua New Guinea
Michelle Richards
Indigenist Archaeology
Kellie Pollard
DISCUSSION
The Key Indigenous Role in the Genisis of the Megafauna Debate: An Entangled Encounter
Matthew Spriggs
Critical Intervention: A Contemporary Archaeology for a Northern Territory Aboriginal Community
Jordan Ralph
DISCUSSION
DISCUSSION
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Waterfront Foyer
AFTERNOON TEA & Poster Session
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Waterfront 3
ANCATL Annual General Meeting
7:00pm – 11:00pm
Waterfront Room
Conference Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Sponsored by the Northern Territory Government
11:00pm – 1:00am
Kick On at The Precinct Tavern
Cash Bar
Saturday 10 December
9:00am – 12:00pm
Charles Darwin University, City Campus
Intercultural Communication Workshop
10:00am – 10:45am and
11:30am – 12:15pm
MAGNT, 19 Conacher St, The Gardens
Behind of Scenes Tour of Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory (MAGNT)
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0402 189 948
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