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5 Side-scan sonar mosaic off of Elmina, with details of the wreck site from 2003 (left) and 2009 (right). Although apparent as a sonar anomaly in both seasons, the wreck is clearly more exposed in the 2003 image, and the 2009 image suggests a substantial portion of the southern extent is covered by soft sediments (Horlings 2011:231)
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This chapter investigates maritime cultural landscapes of Point Pearce Mission/Burgiyana, in the Yorke Peninsula/Guuranda region of South Australia
. Burgiyana is home to the Narungga
peoples. This research investigates the participation of Aboriginal peoples in Australia’s
maritime industry, an important component of Australian maritime heritage....
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... In the article, Indigenous archaeology, "archaeology with, for, and by Indigenous peoples" (Nicholas and Andrews 1997: 3), and "Indigenist" research principles (Rigney 2006:42) were combined with maritime archaeology to explore the history of an Indigenous-built and operated vessel, Narrunga. Since that time, other archaeologists have called for and addressed Indigenous worldviews, perspectives, and inclusivity in maritime archaeology of descendant heritage (Fowler et al. , 2015(Fowler et al. , 2016Fowler and Rigney 2017;McKinnon 2013;McKinnon et al. 2014;Roberts et al. 2014) and colonial heritage (McKinnon 2013(McKinnon , 2017McKinnon and Carrell 2015). While much of this research has occurred in the post-colonial context of the Australasian and Pacific region, community-based maritime archaeological approaches have benefited from a wider footprint. ...
A discussion program that engages Pacific Island veterans and military families in examining the experience of war through humanities sources including conflict heritage was recently undertaken in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The program proposes to assist the community with gaining a meaningful and relevant understanding of war as a shared human experience by exploring their local conflict heritage and assisting in integrating Pacific Islander veterans into a sociocultural position of authority in the history of war in their islands. The program is informed by theoretical and practice-based approaches in Indigenous and community archaeology, is interdisciplinary in design, and provides some consideration for future prospects in engagement with descendant and veteran communities.
Archaeological traditions in Australia and New Guinea have taken quite different theoretical pathways. Melanesian archaeology emphasizes dynamic historical processes of internally derived change in ‘agricultural’ societies. In contrast, Australian archaeology has historically emphasized ecological models of stable ‘hunter-gatherer’ societies. This chapter revisits this division in comparing the emergence of mission archaeology in the two regions. Mission archaeology in Australia is well developed and multifaceted, maturing out of earlier settler colonial narratives of rupture between the precontact and postcontact past of Aboriginal societies. In the New Guinea region, missions have been largely ignored in archaeology or have been explored with reference to the long-term histories of dynamic cultural change and living social landscapes. This chapter asks whether the major theoretical divide in Australian and New Guinean archaeology is reproduced anew in archaeologies of the recent past. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the future of mission archaeology outside of the fetters of traditional divisions within Australian archaeology and in light of developments of the more theoretically diverse, ontologically inclusive, and politically agile tenets of ‘Indigenous archaeology’.
