Theses 1990-current
 Archaeology has been taught at Flinders University since 1980. Initially, it was a minor component within the Discipline of Visual Arts. The appointment of a Foundation Lecturer in 1990 resulted in a greater emphasis on archaeology teaching and research at Flinders. In 1995 archaeology became an independent unit within the School of Cultural Studies, and in 1999 the Department of Archaeology was launched in the new School of Humanities.
Since its inception the Department of Archaeology has produced over 25 Masters and PhD theses, and nearly 100 Honours theses. Copies of all theses are lodged in the Central Library; all external requests should be made directly to the Library. Note: (pdf) indicates that the thesis has been archived in the department in portable document format viewable by Adobe Acrobat Reader.
PhD Theses
2008
Nic Grguric
Fortified Homesteads: The Architecture of Fear in Frontier South Australia and the Northern Territory, ca 1847-1885
2006
Di Smith
Meaning, Purpose and Social Memory: The Archaeology of Farm Graveyards of Vehicles and Machinery.
2005
Susan Briggs
Portonian Respectability: Working Class Attitudes to Respectability in Port Adelaide through Material Culture 1840-1900 (PDF)
Pilgrim, Rob
The Blokes' Museum: The Role of the Automobile Museum in Australian Culture.
2004
Owen, Tim
'Of More than Unusual Interest': A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Ancient Aboriginal Skeletal Material from Southeastern South Australia.
2003
Piddock, Susan
A Space of Their Own: 19th Century Lunatic Asylums in England and Australia.
Richards, Nathan
Deep Structures: An Examination of Deliberate Watercraft Abandonment in Australia (PDF)
Roberts, Amy
Knowledge, Power and Voice: An Investigation of Indigenous South Australian
Perspectives of Archaeology.
2002
Builth, Heather C.
The Archaeology and Socioeconomy of the Gunditjmara: A Landscape Analysis from
Southwest Victoria, Australia.
2001
Smith, Pamela
The Ethnoarchaeology of Cultural Change in the Post-Invasion Period in the South
Kimberley, Western Australia.
1999
Staniforth, Mark
Dependent Colonies: The Importation of Material Culture and the Establishment
of a Consumer Society in Australia before 1850.
Kivubiro, Joseph
Baganda Material Culture since 1900 - An Indigenous Interpretation. Indigenous
Concepts of Beauty, Meaning and Ritual in Baganda Material Culture. The Baganda
at the Turn of the Century and in the 1990s.
1997
Craig, Barry
Samting Bilong Tumbuna: The Collection, Documentation and Preservation of the
Material Cultural Heritage of Papua New Guinea.
1996
Ioannou, Noris
In the Footsteps of the Potter: A Comparative Study of the Pottery Traditions
and Folk Life of the Barossa Lutherans in the Context of Ceramic Developments
in British South Australia, 1836-1918.
Master of Arts Theses
2006
Carver, Greg
Post-Contact Archaeology at Nuccaleena, South Australia: An Investigation of Glass Tool Use by Indigenous Australians.
Gordon Copland
A House for the Governor: Settlement Theory, the South Australian Experiment, and the Search for the First Government House.
2005
Adamson, Mike
An Archaeological Analysis of Gender Roles in Ancient Non-Literate Cultures
of Eurasia (PDF)
Farmen, Kris
The Antipodean Hog Farm: Youth Subcultures, Human Ecology, and Investigations into the Lifeways of Australia's Hippies.
Firth, Kylli
The Historical Archaeology of Tasmanian Based Whaling in South Australian Waters 1820-1850.
2004
Russell, Allison
Against the Grain: Interpreting Women's Lives through Historical Exhibitions Displayed in South Australia.
Stankowski, Katrina
Polish Hill River: Cultural Identity from Material Remains.
2003
Videon, John
Archaeological Evidence for the Transmission of Buddhism through Central Asia to China in the First Millennium CE.
Matic, Ashley
'Here I Lie Because I Am Poor': The History and Archaeology of the St. Mary's
Anglican Churchyard Pauper Cemetery.
2002
O'Donnell, Emer
A Place Apart - Birthing in Prehistory.
1999
Marin, Peter
Gravestones and Graveyards: An Archaeological Examination of Commemoration Practices
in South Australia, 1836 - 1979.
1998
Anson, Tim
The Effect of Climate on the Enrichment of Stable Nitrogen Isotopes in the Bone
Collagen of Modern South Australian Mammals.
1997
Susan Piddock
Accommodating the Destitute: An Historical and Archaeological Consideration
of the Destitute Asylum in Adelaide.
1996
Nobbs, Margaret
Aboriginal Painters of the Olary District of South Australia: An Ethnoecological
Study of the Frome Plains and the Adjoining Uplands with Particular Reference
to the Granite Area of the Olary Uplands.
Master of Maritime Archaeology
2008
Berry, Jessica
Ada and Clara:Who'd have thought it? A social history through archaeology.
Woodford, T Zach
An archaeological study of Hecla: a complete wooden ketch from South Australia's mosquito fleet (PDF)
2006
Shefi, Debra
The Development of Cutters in Relation to the South Australian Oyster Industry: An Amalgamation of Two Parrallel Developing Industries (PDF)
Hale, Amanda
From Snagger to Passenger Cruiser: P.S. Melbourne a Murray River Paddle Steamer (PDF)
Honey, Linda
Quarantine Stations at Torrens Island and Point Nepean: A Comparison Study (PDF)
Khan, Amer
Pier Reviewed: A Study of Port Related Structures in South Australia (PDF)
Kimura, Jun
Interpreting Maritime Cultural Space Through the Utilization of GIS: A Case Study of the Spatial Meaning of Shipwrecks in the Coastal Waters
of South Australia (PDF)
Knott, Peta
How are Shipwrecks Represented in Australian Museums: The Investigation of Museum Workers, Exhibitions and Visitors (PDF)
Lockhart, Brandi
Archaeological Potential of Steamship Wrecks of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (PDF)
2005
Beringer-Pooley, James
Comparative Corrosion Analysis of J-Class Submarines.
Bullers, Rick
Quality of Construction of Australian-Built Colonial-Period Wooden Sailing Vessels: Case Studies from Vessels Lost in South Australia and Tasmania (PDF)
Lyons, Shane
The Lighthouses of Kangaroo Island: A Survey of the Archaeological Potential on Historic Lighthouse Sites.
2004
Gainsford, Matt
Hamelin Bay Jetty: A Study of the Hamelin Bay Jetty.
Nash, Michael
Investigation of a Survivor's Camp from the Sydney Cove Shipwreck (MAMS)
Nutley, David
Surviving Inundation: An Examination of Environmental Factors Influencing the Survival of Inundated Indigenous Sites in Australia Within Defined Hydrodynamic and Geological Settings (PDF)
2003
Ford, Julie
The Archaeology of Aircraft Losses Over Water in Victoria During World War Two (MAMS)
Honours Theses
2007
Degner, Helen
'Silence of the Lambs' The Commemoration of Children in the Gravestones of 19th Century South Australia
Massey, Toni
Excellence in hell:
Investigations of the convict built maritime cultural landscape of Sarah Island, Tasmania.
Meara, Tammy
Politics of the dead: A comparative analysis of current heritage legislation within southeastern Australia regarding the reburial of repatriated remains (PDF)
Niland, Katrina
Understanding and managing Old People's burial places in the Kurangk, South Australia: A case study from Hack's Point.
Puletama, Daniel
It's not what you know, it's zoo you know: An exploration of humanness at the Adelaide Zoo.
2006
Baric, Diana
Unravelling Gender Constructs in Archaeology: Ngarrindjeri Archaeology, Fibre Culture and Masculinist Constructions (PDF)
Beale, Alice
Analysis of a Ceramic Assemblage from a 19th Century Gold Field in Northwest Queensland (PDF)
Gorke, Danielle
Determined to be Masters: An Analysis of the Built Environment of Kooringa, South Australia.
Hean, Katherine
An Archaeological Investigation into the Methodist Churches of South Australia.
Litster, Mirani
The Potential Contribution of Archaeology to Australian Frontier Conflict Studies (PDF)
Muller, Stephen
Colonial Experiences of Death and Burial: The Landscape Archaeology of West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide (PDF)
Prideaux, Faye
Beeswax Rockart & Sugarbag Dreaming: Today's Dreaming and Yesterday' Rock Art (PDF)
Smith, Andrea
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Kangaroo Island, South Australia: A Study of Kingscote and West Bay (PDF)
Wiltshire, Kelly D.
Unfinished Business: The Lower Murray Lakes Archaeological Study within a Historical and Political Context (PDF)
2005
Cardillo, Melissa
Veni, Vidi, Vici: What is the Material Evidence for a Distinctive Italian Ethnicity in Twentieth Century South Australia as Reflected in Domestic Architecture? (PDF)
Chisholm, Scott R.
Are You Where You Eat?: A Discussion and Application of the Theories and Methods Surrounding Geographic Mobility Studies.
Damhuis, Stephen
Hand Stencils: A Key to Identifying Gender at Rock Art Sites.
Liebelt, Belinda G.
Specimens and Stone Tools: Aboriginalism and Depictions of Indigenous Australians in Archaeological Textbooks (PDF)
Paling, Natasha
An Assessment of Climate and Decomposition and their Effects on Techniques Used
to Locate Graves (PDF)
Stuart, Ellen R.
A Problem of Settlement: The Continuing Evolution of A Cultural Landscape - Cultural Landscape Change on the Willunga Plains from 1840.
Wilson, Christopher
Return of the Ngarrindjeri: Repatriating Old People Back to Country.
Wimmer, Martin
Archaeology of the Russian Scare: The Port Adelaide Torpedo Station (PDF)
2004
Arthur, Deborah
The Social Meaning of Classical Style Public Architecture in Adelaide in the
19th Century (PDF)
Ash, Aidan
A Nice Place for a Harbour or is it? Investigating a Maritime Cultural Landscape:
Port Willunga, South Australia (MAMS)
Benbow, Luke
A Study of Whalers' Diet on Thistle Island Shore-Based Whaling Station, Using
Comparative Data from the Tasmanian site of Adventure Bay Shore-Based Whaling
Station.
Bender, Chris
Rock of Ages, Stonyfell Quarry: An Archaeological Investigation into Stonyfell
Quarry's Contribution to a Changing South Australian Landscape (PDF)
Candy, Rebekah
Trends of Gracilization during the Holocene in Australia.
Jenkins, Ruth
Fletcher’s Slip: The Application of Multiple Perspectives Methodology
in Historical Archaeology (PDF)
Mullen, Dean
Probing Palauan Pots: Chemical and Petrographic Investigations of Archaeological Pottery Sherds from Palau, Western Micronesia.
Ormsby, Tim
Kennewick Man Meets Lady Mungo: An International Look at Repatriation (PDF)
Paterson, Adam
Understanding the Sleaford Bay Tryworks: An Interpretative Approach to the Industrial
Archaeology of Shore-Based Whaling (MAMS)
Stone, Robert
To Save or Not to Save, That is the Question.
Williams, Andy
Home on the Range: Living a Civilian Life in Woomera's Cold War Military Landscape (PDF)
2003
Cockburn, Theresa
Stable Isotopes and Residential Mobility in South Australia: Determining Residential
Mobility Patterns of Ancient South Australian Aboriginal Populations Employing
Multiple Isotope Analysis.
Diplock, Michael
Does the Possible Existence of a Night Sky Totemic Geography Alter our Understandingof
Indigenous Art?
Farrell, Zandria K.
Sacred to the Memory: An Archaeological Investigation into Emotion and Ideology
within Two Regional Cemeteries (PDF)
Marshall, Brian
An Analysis of the Archaeological Findings of the Kangerung Cemetery and Ngarrindjeri Social Systems.
Scholten, Rijan
Engraved Expressions: Interpretation of Convict Graffiti in New South Wales.
2002
James, Keryn
Wife or Slave? The Kidnapped Aboriginal Women Workers and Australian Sealing
Slavery on Kangaroo Island and Bass Strait Islands: Using Landscape Archaeology
to Search for Evidence of Pre-Settlement Lifeways during the Sealing Era 1802-1835
on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Welz, Aara
Fish Trap Placement! The Environmental and Cultural Influences in Fish Trap
Placement along the Australian Coastline (PDF)
2001
Brett, Kirsten
Lenimbat brom jad oldintaim en tudei en wek bla tumoro. A Community Education
Approach: Towards a More Relevant Indigenous Archaeology.
Carver, Greg
An Examination of Indigenous Australian Culturally Modified Trees in South Australia.
Coombe, A. Richard
Plants: Indicators of Past Cultural Activity.
Firth, Kylie
Money for Jam: The Historical Archaeology of the Fullarton Jam Factory.
Forrest, John
The Invisibility of Crews of Nineteenth Century Australian Shipping in Catalogued
Collections of Artefacts from Provenanced Sites (PDF)
Langeluddecke, Christopher
Undervalued Animals: The Small Faunal Taphonomy and Zooarchaeology of Cape Du
Couedic Rockshelter, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
Tutty, Megan
Ideology, Function and Industrial Space: An Analysis of the Spatial Organization
of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Jam Factories.
Wood, Ian
The Burra Smelting Works, South Australia: The Use of Select Criteria for Spatial
Analysis and Interpretation.
2000
Barker, Jennifer
Towards an Archaeobotanical Reference Bank: A Pilot Study for the Construction
of an Indentification Tool for Macroscopic Plant Remains from Archaeological
Deposits.
Briggs, Susan
Blood in the Street: An Archaeological Examination of a Commercial Faunal Assemblage
from Lot 8-12 Divett Street, Port Adelaide.
DiFazio, Bianca
Living on the Edge: An Exploration of Fringe Camp Occupation in Beltana, Flinders
Ranges.
Ford, Julie
The Use and Abuse of Jetties: State Government Control in the Construction and
Maintenance of Jetties in South Australia.
Griffin, Darren
"A Christian Village of South Australian Natives": A Critical Analysis of the
Use of Space at Poonindie Mission, South Australia.
May, Sally
The Last Frontier? Aquiring the American-Australian Scientific Expedition Ethnographic
Collection 1948 (PDF)
Matic, Ashley
"Shop, 3 Rooms, and Sheds" The History and Archaeology of 8-12 Divett Street,
Port Adelaide.
Polkinghorne, Martin
Banteay Srei - Cosmology and Khmer Architecture.
Stankowski, Katrina
Southern Seric Sights: An Analysis of Chinese Archaeological Sites from Colonial
Australia using Feng Shui.
1999
Adamson, Mike
Celtiana: Worlds in Communication.
Harris, Rhondda
Archaeology and Post-Contact Indigenous Adelaide.
Kamleh, Elise
The Rock Cut Cave-Temples of Southern Asia - New Directions for Rock Art Studies.
Maddock, Noel
The Celts of the British Isles Before and After the Roman Invasion of AD43.
Matthews, Lydia
The Cross-Cultural Hunter-Gatherers on Kangaroo Island.
Matthews, Shirley
The North Arm Ships' Graveyard, Port Adeliade, South Australia: Some Historical
Perspectives of the Ships and Associated Maritime Activity and an Examination
of the Artefact Assemblage.
Reilly, Rebecca
An Assessment of Australian Built Wooden Sailing Vessels (Constructed Between
1850-1899) Operating the South Australian Intrastate Trade (MAMS)
Pecanek, Melanie
Adelaide's East End Marketplace: A Study of the Progression of the East End
Markets and the Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange.
Roberts, Rhys
The Peramangk and Culturally Modified Trees.
Rodrigues, Jennifer
Analysis and Interpretation of the Holdfast Bay Historical Artefacts.
Southwood, Judith
Men Without Feet: The Form, Function and Influences in Anthropomorphic Early
Celtic Stone Sculpture.
Steele, Jody
Pingle Farm, from Rubble to Repute: An Archaeological Investigation, Interpretation
and Publication.
1998
Gordon Copland
Event Driven Transitory Migration: The Case of the Chinese Migration through
South Australia between 1854 and 1864.
Davies, Neil
Time, Symbolism, Archaeology and the 'Tain Bo Cuailnge'.
Mott, David
Aboriginal Rock Engravings of the Panaramittee Hills (includes video and CD-ROM).
Nelson, Nick
Right Place, Wrong Time. The Archaeology of Bay Whaling Kangaroo Island, South
Australia 1840-1845.
O'Malley Pauline
Blue and White Transfer Under Glaze - Was There More? Ceramic Choice in South
Australia 1836-1856.
Philippou, Cassandra
The Legal Protection of Indigenous and Historical Cultural Heritage in South
Australia: A Comparative Study.
Roberts, Amy
Digging Deeper: A Re-analysis of the Archaeology of Fromm's Landing, South Australia.
Saeki, Paul
The Business of Archaeology: A Production and Value Added Approach (includes
video).
1997
Phil Czerwinski
Stones from the South-Side: An Analysis of Lithics from the Onkaparinga River,
South Australia.
Gibbins, Samantha
Aspects of Analysis and the Identification of Urbanism at Pella and the Southern
Levant in the Early Bronze Age.
Gregory, Stewart
Moana: Reading Between the Dunes.
Parkinson, Charles
Land Based Whaling Activities on the West Coast of South Australia 1829-1845.
Richards, Nathan
The History And Archaeology of the Garden Island Ships' Graveyard, North Arm
of the Port Adelaide River, Port Adelaide, South Australia (PDF) Russell Coote Simon
Mills as Markers Four Mills, Places, the Cultural Landscape and their Taphonomy.
Lorelei Siegloff
Plumbago Station: Intra Site Analysis of a Cultural Landscape Using GIS in an
Australian Prehistoric Context.
1996
Lenehan, Rachel
The Repatriation of Aboriginal Cultural Artefacts: A Viable Option?
Nairn, William
Galvanised Corrugated Iron and Fasteners.
Nicolson, Oona
A Fish Called Condah: An Analysis of Archaeological Interpretations of the Cultural
Landscapes of the Lake Condah Region in Southwestern Victoria, Australia.
1995
Gibbins, Samantha
Aspects of Functional Analysis and the Identification of Urbanism at Pella and
the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age.
Macgill, Belinda
In what ways are the Works by Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt Different to their
Male Impressionists Colleagues in the Late Ninteenth Century Paris?
Smith, Diana Marilyn
Show Him Your Cross!: Writing about Gender in Archaeology;
Taking Up the Collection.
Wilson, Derren
Calling from a Colonial Telegraph: South Australia and the 19th Century International
Exhibitions;
Of Myth and Mammon: The Christmas Ritual in 19th Century South
Australia;
The Making of the River Torrens: A Study of the Forces Working on
a Planned Cultural Landsape of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
1994
Barker, Susan
Watch the Birdie!: A Study of Early South Australian Photographic Practices.
Denny, Michelle
Gravestone Iconography and Social Class;
Health and Poverty in the 19th Century.
Sutcliffe, Katherine
Six Amphorae in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, University of Adelaide:
Potentials and Problems of Amphorae Studies;
Theoretical Issues in Classical
Archaeology;
Catholic Burials in Adelaide, an Insight to the Private Life of
the Church.
1993
Crow, Heidi
A Review of Legislation Concerning Management of Archaeological Sites in South
Australia;
What Caused the Extinction of the Austrailian Megafauna?;
A Look
at the Queens Theatre and Shakespeare Tavern from 1840-1877 through the Artefacts
from that Site.
Andrew Noble
An Analysis of Stable Carbon Isotope Variation within Animal Bone Collagen along
the Eastern Border of South Australia;
An Analysis of the Potential of Roadside
Rubbish to Provide Archaeological Information.
1992
Piddock, Susan
Twentieth Century Historical Archaeology;
Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes and their
Applications in Archaeology;
Celtic Art - A Consideration of the Varying Perceptions
of the Celts, both Archaeological and the Area of Popular and Nationalistic
Culture.
Graduate Diploma Theses
Buchan, Kirsty
Romanisation of Religion in Britain: The Case of West Hill, Uley.
Consoli, Stella
Ethnoarchaeology - A Modern Material Culture Study of Bridges in the Adelaide
Metropolitan Area.
Costaridis, Maria
The Use of Prehistoric Skeletal Remains in Archaeology: South Australia.
De L. Marshall, Gordon
Ships' Figure Heads in Australia.
Gibbins, Samantha
Womens Status in the Neolithic Cultures of Anatolia and Old Europe as Reflected
in Mother Goddess Worship - Does the Interpretation of the Archaeological Evidence
Contribute Towards an Engendered Archaeology.
Goold, Louise
The Use of Psychoactive Substances by the Early Celts.
Golyala, Suvarna
Aspects of Gandhara Art.
Hancock, Dale
An Archaeological Report on the Permangk Aboriginal Location near Springton,
South Australia.
Harris, Rhondda
Artefacts and Oral History at Swan Reach Aboriginal Mission - Interpretation
of Archaeology in Post Contact Aborginal Sites.
Heal, Colin
Irish Trade from the Bronze Age to the Coming of Christianity.
Knott, Don
Australian Archaeology: Epistemological or Ideological?
Marin, Peter
A Review of Literature relating to Aboriginal Archaeology in the Adeliade/Fleurieu
Region, from 1836 to the Present.
Molloy, Margaret
The Place of the Olmecs in Early Mesoamerican History: Are they Still Inexplicable?
Norman, Marianne
Far Fiasco - To Make a Bottle.
O'Malley, Pauline
Socio-Economic and Ideological Status Indentified through an Analysis of Settlement
Patterns at Delabole Via Willunga.
Rice, Sally
Long Waves and the Pottery Industry of Iron Roman Britain - An Investigation Using
the Data from the Gazetteer for Pottery Kilns.
Smith, Pamela A.
The Palm House in the Adelaide Botanic Garden: The Cultural Context.
Watson, Robert
The Reconstruction of Prehistoric Human Diet Using Stable Carbon Isotopic Data
from Bone Collagen Analysis - Promise and Limitations.
Wright, Elizabeth
Tracing the Rim in Black and White - A Survey of Ceramic Advertisements in South
Australia, 1836-1900.
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