Archive for September, 2008
Daryl Guse, a PhD candidate working on Aboriginal rock art in the Wellington Ranges area, western Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) recently forwarded me a link to a story on his research. In a find that has stunned archaeologists and anthropologists, a vast wall of about 1500 paintings chronicles the history of Aboriginal contact with outsiders, […]
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Fieldwork blogging hiatus
Because I’m not set up to blog whilst on fieldwork there may be a series of hiatus’ between posts over the next few months due to extensive fieldwork commitments. You see, here in north Queensland it is the late dry season, a lovely time of year that is often rapidly followed by the wet season […]
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Arcview on a mac?
A little while ago I purchased a new macbook pro after discovering that they now run Windows. As far as laptops go, MBPs are brilliant: they take no time at all to to configure out of the box, are simple to use, backup and recover. They are wonderful as a writing and research tool and […]
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A few months back I posted about a session that Daryl Guse, Cameo Dalley and I had proposed for the Australian Archaeological Association conference in Noosa this year. You can read that post here, but in short, the session was looking for papers about the way in which cultural heritage management is undertaken in the […]
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