Detailed Program

Recent developments from the submerged cultural landscape of Murujuga Sea Country (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia
Jonathan Benjamin

What's under the surface, exploring the history of sea country
Malik Churnside

Raw material variability at submerged archaeological sites in Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia: Insights from portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF)
Wendy van Duivenvoorde

Wear beneath the waves: Initial functional analysis of submerged lithic artefacts
Elspeth Hayes

Bathymetric and terrestrial LiDAR in coastal and submerged landscape archaeology: An application in Northern Australia
Louise Brooke

Mapping and modelling the offshore Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in Gunditjmara Nyamat Mirring (Sea Country)
Michael O'Leary

Our Yarta is alive! Reclaiming custodian authority in archaeology
Mick McKenzie (Snr)

Kaurna and defence: The evolution of relationships, management and respect, 2006 to 2026
Tim Owen

Past, future and back to the past? A critical look at the WA Aboriginal heritage legislative section 18 approvals regime following the 2023 amendments
Annabelle Davis

The long story: Archaeological narratives, relationships, and the nature of transactions
Kathryn Przywolnik

Are we weaponising heritage? Unconscious bias, truth-telling and responsible advocacy in cultural heritage practice
Jade Pervan

DISCUSSION

A critical discussion of the historical origins of archaeobotany as viewed from "down under"
India Ella Dilkes-Hall

Culturally modified trees, recording methods and Indigenous intellectual property rights
Kate Greenwood

Establishing chronologies for culturally modified trees on Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Country
Abby Cooper

Imaging and imagining Larrkardiy: Re-presenting the living heritage of Australian boab trees
Ursula Frederick

Preliminary archaeobotanical investigations into plant food use at Dargan Shelter, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
Emma Jones

Species identification of plant fibres in archaeology: A case study from Windmill Way, southeast Cape York Peninsula
Sharon Russo

Decolonising and indigenising the discipline

Georgia Stannard & Georgia Williams
Roundtable and Discussion

Moving towards a national accreditation scheme
Georgia Stannard & Georgia Williams
Roundtable and Discussion

Using phytoliths to reconstruct palaeolandscapes in Australia's Dead Heart
Ian Moffat

Landscape as artefact: Pollen from Minjerribah
Jody Schulz

DISCUSSION

Public understanding of, and interest in, Australian archaeology

Georgia Stannard & Georgia Williams
Roundtable and Discussion

'Braiding knowledge’ about the peopling of the River Murray (Rinta) in South Australia: Ancestral narratives, geomorphological interpretations and archaeological evidence
Amy Roberts

Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records in South Australia's Riverland region: Some lessons for future water management in the Murray-Darling Basin
Craig Westell

7000 years of Aboriginal mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia
Simon Hoad

Implications of source heterogeneity for ochre provenance at Ma:ko
Rachel Popelka-Filcoff

The place of perpetual fire: An exploration of initial results from an excavation at Tanamee Rockshelter, Murray River, South Australia
Marc Fairhead

Woven together: A technological, typological and ethno-historical investigation of Aboriginal basketry from the Murray River, South Australia
Alyssa De Luna

Cumulative impacts: The results of multiple open area excavations along a linear corridor in western Sydney
Darran Jordan

Revealing hidden landscapes: Integrating LiDAR into heritage assessment and archaeological practice
Ashleigh Bentley

Not from around here: Tektite artefacts and implications for long-distance connections in Yinhawangka Country
Elly Anderson

Archaeological salvage excavations at Perth Airport reveal elements of a 50,000-year-old cultural landscape
Joe Dortch

An archaeologist's treasure: Discovering an unrecorded refuse depot in Warrnambool, Victoria
Sarah Chandlee

AANSW's Culturally Centric Design Approach: Community, Culture and Country at the heart of all reform programs
Cheryl Kitchener

Depictions of buffalo shooters and other non-Indigenous people in late 1800s/early1900s northwest Arnhem Land and beyond
Paul Taçon

The farthest shore: Using archaeology, place names, and song poetry to trace how Makassan trepang fishers and Yanyuwa people shaped one another from the 1700s in the Gulf of Carpentaria
Chris Urwin

Li-Tharribamara, those people that desire trepang: An archaeomalacological and anthropological investigation of Yanyuwa-Makassan relationships on Yanyuwa Country
Alex Ivkovic

Archaeology in the ground, anthropology in the air at Dinajirdi: Reflexivity and reviving the Yanyuwa-Makassan relationship through contemporary collaborative work between anthropology, archaeology, and the Yanyuwa expertise on Yanyuwa Country
Fikri Yathir

Trading stories: Testimony about trade relationships maintained in the wanggas (myths) of the Ngardangarli (Pilbara Aboriginal people)
Neil Brougham

DISCUSSION

35,000 years and 30,000 Artefacts: Results from the Central East Zone of the Skye Salvage on Bunurong Country, Victoria
Brian Porrett

Kanti Tjiwa: From compliance to collaborative archaeology at Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park
Madeleine Kelly

Inland aeolian sand bodies and the preservation of evidence for early human occupation of the central lowlands of the Hunter River Valley, south-eastern Australia: New insights from Aboriginal archaeological site ‘Singleton Bypass OAS23’ (AHIMS ID#37-6-4219)
Andrew McLaren

Press button, get map? Robust predictive modelling requires more than that!
Renee McAlister

Seqwater: Building a cultural heritage management framework
Toyah Morath

DISCUSSION

Trade and exchange in Mithaka country
Michael Westaway

Indigenous presence and persistence at Artawarapanha/Mount Serle Station
Rebecca Milne

Exploring a painting as cross-cultural encounter between artist and Country
Hugh Cowie

Rock art and pigs (Sus scrofa): The Coral Sea cultural interaction sphere and the pre-European presence of Sus scrofa on Cape York Peninsula
Bryce Barker

A history in clay: Pottery-making, social change, and cultural continuity in Wusi, Vanuatu
Edward King

Assessing individual and population mobility in a prehistoric coastal trading population on the Papuan Coast: Applying strontium isotope analysis to Motupore Islanders
Jason Kariwiga

Into the groove: Large grinding stations provide new insights into arid zone settlement and subsistence in north-west WA
William Bromage

In the beginning: Grindstone quarries in Channel Country, southwest Queensland
Doug Williams

From Country to catalogue: Colonial separations and the archaeological classification of Noongar ground stones
Jordanna Eades

Ground work: Pleistocene and Holocene shape data
Max Both

Ground stone and flaked stone: What's the difference?
Richard Fullagar

DISCUSSION

Trading with the dead: Secondary burial and exchange networks in the Massim, Papua New Guinea
Simon Coxe

Earlier Lapita dispersals and Indigenous agency in southern Papua New Guinea
Ben Shaw

DISCUSSION

Stone choices, shared landscapes: Material selection and connection in Newcastle
Jordan Gilbert

Re-purposing, re-cycling and personal attachment
Colin Pardoe

DISCUSSION

When the framework ends but the heritage doesn't
Francisco Almeida

Ethics, objectivity and advocacy in Sea Country geoarchaeology
Ingrid Ward

Protecting what cannot be said: Indigenous intangible heritage under the EPBC Act
Zachary Carter

Reasonable and practicable? Professional judgement and Queensland's duty of care
Kathy Lai

Across the divide: Navigating separate heritage legislation through integrated archaeological practice on Burramattagal Country
Sarah Janson

Cumulative impact and cultural heritage
Miranda Gronow

Characterising the interrelationship between industrial archaeology and the maritime cultural landscape of Lake Illawarra
Jake Allen

Visualising Nyamat Mirring (Sea Country): Gunditjmara aspirations drive integration of remote sensing technologies at Tarragal, southwest Victoria
Bradley Arsenault

Listening to a transformed river: Acoustic traces of landscape modification along the Onkaparinga
Alan Cook

Dangerous places (Awiyi), oral tradition and site abandonment: Evidence from a midden site on South Barrow Island, Cape York Peninsula
Mia Dardengo

Morphometric evidence for Mangrove Whelk (Terebralia palustris) harvesting selectivity: Thalanyji Coastal lifeways across the mid-to-late Holocene from the Ashburton Coastline, northwest Australia
Emily Haagensen

Looking after country: The Wellesley Islands Region fishtrap project
Lucy Hughes

Beyond the polygon: Breaking free from ‘activity area’ boundaries to tell stories at landscape scales
Rebekah Kurpiel

Wilami-baanh (water home): The importance of protecting, integrating, and restoring pre-European wetlands and landscape depressions in strategic planning
Lauren Modra

Archaeology of the fairway: Aboriginal cultural landscapes beneath golf course redevelopment in the Hunter Region, NSW
Andrew Costello

On the verge: Best practice heritage management in the liminal road verge
Rebekah Hawkins

Registration of Aboriginal cultural places: Waurn Ponds and the best-worst outcome
Lucy Welsh

Nobody wrote the guidance for this: A panel discussion
Erica Walther

The life history of a dingo buried 700 years ago at Wreck Bay
Loukas Koungoulos

Stable oxygen isotope analysis of Tegillarca granosa provides insights into late Holocene palaeoenvironment and seasonal shellfish harvesting in Murujuga
Caroline Mather

Palaeolithic dispersal histories of Arabia: Chronological assessments of out of Africa migrations using single-grain luminescence dating
Kira Otterbach

Constraining the timing of Neanderthals in Southern Iberia and evidence of marine resource consumption
Ben Robertson

Water, stone and flooding landscapes at Bilpa Morea: Preliminary archaeological perspectives from Mithaka Country
Courtney Simmiss

Murujuga Thathagurra: A coastal rock art assemblage from Withnell Bay
Jerome Wachter