An extraordinary and excitingly diverse range of research topics are pursued by students in archaeology and cultural heritage management and with the advent of COVID-19, students have engaged with history, science and culture in ways we haven\u2019t even begun to fully explore. Disseminating your research results to an audience of archaeologists at Australia\u2019s annual conference, especially at your industry\u2019s peak conference. We invite students to present on their research on areas relating to the conference theme on Contact: Learning from Entangled Encounters. This session focusses on student research and provides an opportunity to speak alongside a group of your peers in a safe moderated space. We support and encourage student researchers at all levels to present a paper on their research in any area that relates to exploring First Nation people\u2019s engagement with colonists and others in archaeology and cultural heritage management from national and international contexts. Presenting in this forum allows you to develop important skills at communicating your research results.<\/p>\n
Archaeological Science is an expanding multidisciplinary field. Traditionally it has focused on the application of western research technologies and methodologies to better understand cultural landscapes and materials. Through the analysis of material culture, botanical, faunal and environmental material, we can gain important insights into human interactions, exchange networks and shared and enduring cultural traditions. Archaeological science investigations encompassing wide ranging explorations such as provenance studies, assessment of resource exploitation seasonality, advanced chronometry and zooarchaeology among others, facilitates nuanced viewpoints to understand concepts of contact and interaction, addressing the conference theme \u2018Contact: learning from entangled encounters\u2019. This session, organised by the Australasian Research Cluster for Archaeological Science (ARCAS) network, invites papers from different archaeometric perspectives and across various temporal and spatial scales focusing on studies that explore the nature of contact and interaction in all its forms. We particularly welcome papers that focus on the role that archaeological science can play in helping to decolonise and indigenise research and help build capacity and self-determination for First Nations Communities.<\/p>\n
The Top End, the northernmost section of the Northern Territory, is a significant region for Australian archaeological research. It spans the earliest encounters between the First Australians and this continent, its flora, fauna and country; all the way to a more recent history of contact, colonisation, entanglement and persistence. With AAA held this year in Darwin, we propose a broad inter-disciplinary session on current research in the Top End of Australia, covering everything from rock art to lithics. We especially invite papers showcasing collaborative research with Aboriginal communities.<\/p>\n
The cultural heritage management landscape is changing, the previous dominance of a single way of working has been resisted. The events in the last few years have resulted in a shifting attitude towards applying innovative approaches, co-design, free and informed prior consent, consideration of the cumulative impacts to country, long-term management, and a different way of engagement. Following many entangled encounters, negotiation is slowly beginning to move away from a process driven by the developer into a co-designed process framed by Traditional Owners connection and goals for country, community, and future. While this change is not quick, there is evidence that CH management is responding by encompassing all cultural heritage values, assessing the entirety of connection to country and including the legacy from dispossession, alienation and colonialism which continue to impact today. To understand a new way of working it is important to learn and grow from each idea, challenge, success, and failure. This session aims to highlight and encourage robust discussion around the changing approaches to engagement, acknowledgement of the long road still to travel, cultural heritage management and working in a space that is Beyond Compliance.<\/p>\n
Over millennia, animals have continued to occupy a pivotal, yet diverse, economic, social, cultural, and spiritual role in Australasia (Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, and nearby areas). Ongoing interdisciplinary research investigating past animal-people interactions have highlighted the need to restructure our approaches by foregrounding decision-making, agency, and relationality. Archaeologists working in our region have adopted novel approaches to reveal how people engaged with and conceptualised animals in the past, for example utilising evidence of past subsistence regimes (e.g. recovered faunal remains), iconography (e.g. rock art depictions), organic technologies (e.g. bone projectile points, shell fishhooks, animal fur string), and ornamentation (e.g. shell beads and pendants, shark teeth ornaments, pierced dog tooth ornaments). This session seeks to examine the varied archaeological signatures of animal-people encounters in Australasia and we welcome papers that explore this theme across different localities and time depths.<\/p>\n
From Ross\u2019 transnational artefacts to Byrne\u2019s heritage corridors and Ingold\u2019s meshworks, the transnational turn has challenged archaeologists to grapple with the global movements of people, things and ideas that created the modern world. Yet transnational approaches are normally used for a limited number of site types and communities, and there are few comparative projects. At the same time, critiques have arisen about the ways transnationalism reifies the nation state and the growing gap between international academic publications and the increasingly national focus of both funding and public history in Australia. This session challenges speakers to reimagine transnational archaeology, considering what it would take to truly transcend national boundaries. Potential topics include international multi-sited projects; the role of CHM in transnational archaeologies; structural issues to truly transnational archaeology; transnational archaeologies of new time periods and site types; transnationalism in public interpretation; or transnational commodity histories. Submissions are encouraged from all time periods and specializations of Australasian archaeology, covering theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, and analytical approaches to transnationalism.<\/p>\n
The Australasian region has an expansive history of human occupation and migration over the last 65,000 years. The evolution of climate, environment and landscape over time had the potential to profoundly influence human habitation and social interaction. Notably, there has been extreme climatic and geographic change since the Last Glacial Maximum, after which sea levels rose ~130 m and transformed the landscape. So too, modification of the environment by humans is apparent in many locations, including petroglyphs, evidence of large-scale aquaculture, and charcoal deposits from traditional burning practices. The degree to which human practices may have altered the environment is still being uncovered, although significant changes in land use since European colonisation in Australasia are readily apparent in environmental records. We welcome presentations that discuss the palaeoenvironmental frame of human occupation and activities and highlight the varying interactions between peoples and their environment - including the effects of contact between cultures. This is the first joint session between the Australian Archaeological Association and Australasian Quaternary Association aiming to share knowledge between the archaeological and social sciences with the environmental-focussed Quaternary sciences.<\/p>\n
In May 2020 Rio Tinto Australia destroyed ancient and significant Aboriginal heritage sites at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara. In October 2021 the Australian Parliament issued \"A Way Forward\"; a report into what happened at Juukan Gorge with suggestions for changes to heritage legislation and practice throughout Australia to ensure that such destruction will never again occur. Despite the report, many involved in heritage management know that Aboriginal heritage is destroyed daily, largely as a result of inadequate legislation and\/or failed regulatory oversight. The proposed changes to heritage management in \"A Way Forward\" may not achieve the desired end-goals. Many find there to be little contact between proposed changes and on-the-ground reality, partly as a result of the disconnect between processually-driven legislative frameworks and the post-processualism\/constructivism that informs Indigenous connections to place, Country, and spirit. In this session we call for papers that: review recent legislative reforms, or recently identified needs for legislative reform, and analyse how well (or otherwise) changes might address improved heritage protection; or papers that have examples of changed heritage management practices that might indeed lessen the likelihood of harm to Indigenous heritage into the future.<\/p>\n
This session will explore both the concept of contact in deep time and through an examination of the earliest sites and cultural landscapes, and more recent contacts between cultures in Australia\u2019s West to explore how these can help us understand the complexities of First Nations societies and their wider and incomparable record on the Australian continent. We seek papers which utilise innovative methods to disentangle the deep past as well as those which bring new theoretical insights to extend our knowledge of this more liminal record. How did tropically adapted peoples entering the north of Australia so quickly transcend the arid zone and occupy multiple biogeographic regions? How can we understand the earliest evidence of art production in Australia, and its record of first encounters with na\u00efve landscapes and fauna; can we track how this evidence morphs into more enduring connectivity to place? What can the earliest remaining sites on Australia\u2019s transgressive coastal plain tell us about the dynamics of human populations and sustainable economies in the deeper past? How do cross-cultural encounters over time tell us about marginalised experience and consequences of different perceptions, and how are these varied identities revealed in archaeological records? <\/span><\/p>\n This session invites papers reporting on any aspect of the archaeology of First Nation Peoples from Australia, the Pacific and island Southeast Asia where there have been impacts arising from contact and engagement with both regional and colonial powers. This session seeks to explore the complexities of the many entanglements between local First Nation Peoples when they have come into contact with empires and nations expanding across the Australasian region. Silliman has discussed many issues arising from \u2018contact\u2019 studies in archaeology and the impact that complex trajectories of colonialism have on First Nation communities following the initial period of contact. This includes examining how First Nations responded, resisted and accommodated these colonial advances through archaeological approaches that have considered hybridity, the ambiguities of material culture and space, and the landscapes of contact. Therefore, it is important that we consider the archaeology of Indigenous peoples from initial contact events through to the present and the many historical impacts that have occurred.<\/p>\n We are seeking presentations on current work that aims to fulfill the potential to archaeology to make a difference to the people with whom we work. Worldwide, archaeologists are questioning the relevance of their discipline, especially in light of its historical complicity in colonialism. There is an overwhelmingly non-Indigenous workforce, that narrows the richness of interpretations, and the potential danger of disengaged scientific practice. Indeed, some researchers question whether the archaeology of Indigenous societies has any value, given that communities not only live daily with poverty and food insecurity, but also endure transgenerational trauma and interventionist governments. Within this space, Australian archaeology has done remarkably well \u2013 but can we do better? Archaeology can bring unique value via strengths that have not yet been fully tapped. Archaeology is vital for its role in safeguarding tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and for the long-term relationships of trust that archaeologists establish with Indigenous people. Heritage, as the foundation and production of archaeological work, can strengthen a sense of community, be a therapy for trauma, and foster resilience, wellbeing and social cohesion.<\/p>\n Continuing discussions from recent conferences, the AAA sub-committee of the Australian National Committee of Archaeological Teaching and Learning (ANCATL) are once again providing an opportunity to engage in the development, implementation and evaluation of the tertiary teaching and learning opportunities within archaeology and heritage disciplines nationally. Fundamentally, improving the holistic and structural change of Australian archaeology begins in the classroom and the topic of this year\u2019s conference provides an excellent opportunity to examine this through the lens of \u2018Untangling Encounters\u2019. Whilst recent sessions have focused on theoretical developments and discussions relating to the learning ecosystem for connection this theory with practice (think Benchmarking, Profiling the Profession, and the Australian Archaeology Skills Passport), we encourage this year presentations that seek to present and consider practical applications within academia and support document of these pathways forward. In this session, we invite archaeologists, students and Traditional Custodians to share discuss practical examples of teaching and learning being undertaken in a shared space (practical, theoretical, etc.), and \/or between shared people\/cultures\/industries to promote the learning of archaeology and heritage.<\/p>\n With new human species continuing to be discovered across Africa, Europe, and Asia, it becomes increasingly relevant to consider what impact encounters between populations had on human anatomical and cultural change. Classically explored in connection to the H. Sapiens colonisation of Eurasia and ultimate demise of Neanderthals, such inter-human interactions may have profoundly altered the course of the human story. This session seeks to explore all possibilities surrounding contact between different human species: impact on genes, impact on behaviour, impact on culture, impact on the archaeological record.<\/p>\n The Contact and Entangled Encounters of this session are those between antiquarians or archaeologists and Indigenous people and other often-marginalised groups, from the early years of colonial Australia to the present. The history of archaeology in Australia and the wider region usually omits some key participants without whom archaeological work would not have been possible. Most prominent among them are Indigenous communities and individuals who have been in contact with and worked alongside \u2018professional\u2019 archaeologists to construct what we know of Australia\u2019s deep time history. But we are also mindful of the entangled encounters between such \u2018professionals\u2019 and non-Indigenous women and (to a lesser extent) some men, whose contributions have often also been ignored in the history of archaeology. Indigenous participation was ignored until the last few decades because of colonial and racist attitudes during 'contact' encounters, that of many women because of patriarchal attitudes, and some men and women also because they were presented as mere 'amateurs' in an increasingly 'professional' archaeological discipline. The best that many of these groups could hope for was a mention in the footnotes or acknowledgements. 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Self-Determination Through Digital Archaeology<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Convenors: Andrea Jalandoni, Griffith University, Emma Beckett, The University of Western Australia and Jarrad Kowlessar, Flinders University<\/span><\/h5><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
The Archaeology of First Nation Peoples and Post-Contact Entanglements in Australasia<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Problem and Promise of Archaeology<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Untangling Encounters: Sharing Teaching and Learning Journeys in Archaeology and Heritage<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Unusual Encounters: Exploring the Impact of Inter-Human Species Interactions Throughout Human Evolution<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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Voices from the Footnotes of Entangled Encounters: Stories of Often-Forgotten Participants in the History of Archaeology<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t
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