How Australian archaeologists tackle issues of digital heritage and literature preservation

Updates from the NSW AOL project

 

Consulting, mobility, and lithic analysis

What do Australian archaeologists do with all those stone artefacts?

 

Learn more about Indigenous knowledge of Astronomy and stone arrangements in our latest AA blog

 

New findings from Nawarla Gabarnmang!

Learn more about how rock art chronologies are established, here.

 

The Quinkan rock art is in danger.

Read more about why here.

Requesting AAA member input into Federal Govt Inquiry into mineral and resource exploitation

The AAA were recently alerted to a federal government enquiry into mineral and resource exploitation. We were initially alerted by  a member in WA who …

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Where does the ‘grey literature’ go? The New South Wales Archaeology Online project and issues of digital preservation for Australian archaeology

NSW_archaeology_online2_thumbnailBy Jacqueline Matthews.

Based on the article ‘Digital preservation, online access and historical archaeology ‘grey literature’ from New South Wales, Australia’, by Martin

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Radiocarbon datasets available online!

C14Some of you will already be familiar with AustArch1 and AustArch2, the fantastically useful sets of Microsoft® Excel® databases listing radiocarbon, luminescence and uranium series …

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The Australian Archaeological Association Inc. (AAA) is one of the largest archaeological organisations in Australia, representing a diverse membership of professionals, students and others with an interest in archaeology. It aims to promote the advancement of archaeology; to provide an organisation for the discussion and dissemination of archaeological information and ideas; to convene meetings at regular intervals; to publicise the need for the study and conservation of archaeological sites and collections; and, to publicise the work of the Association.