Program
Tuesday 3 December
9:00am - 3:00pm
Getting into Print Publishing Masterclasses
James Cook University Bada-jali Campus, Cairns City, 36 Shield Street, Cairns (Level 1, Room CCC-103)
3:30pm - 5:00pm
National First Nations Heritage Legislation: Briefing on Progress to Date by DCCEEW
James Cook University Bada-jali Campus, Cairns City, 36 Shield Street, Cairns (Level 1, Room CCC-103)
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Welcome Reception and Welcome to Country
Hemingway’s Brewery, 4 Wharf Street, Cairns
Wednesday 4 December
8:30am - 9:00am
Conference Opening
9:00am - 10:00am
Keynote Presentation –
Indigenous Genomics: SING Panel
Panelists: Dawn A. Lewis, University of Adelaide, A/Prof Raymond Tobler, Australian National University, A/Prof Kalinda Griffiths, Flinders University and Gregory Pratt, CQ University
Moderator: Jacinta Koolmatrie, Adnyamathanha/Ngarrindjeri woman
10:00am - 10:30am | Morning Tea
10:30am - 12:30pm
1A – Archaeological Science in the Narration of the Past
Room P1
I Wanna Know What Bone Is! First Results on Bone Palaeoproteomics from the Kimberley Region
Sofia Samper Carro
Fiona Hook
People, Mussels, and Country: Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Western Scientific Techniques to Investigate Human-Mussel-Environment Relationships During the Late Quaternary on Ngintait and Latji Latji Country, South-East Australia
Chloe Stringer
Lipids in Pots: Biomolecular Archaeology in Oceania
Mathieu Leclerc **WITHDRAWN**
Where Do We Come from and When? A Story Behind the Oldest Child
Wenjing Yu
From Lost to Found: Rediscovering John Wilson’s Narrative in the Dungowan Valley
Antonella Skepasianos
1B – Juukan Gorge: The Story of Destruction and Rebuilding (Panel)
Room P2
Introduction: Burchell Hayes
Excavation History 2009, 2014: Michael Slack
Destruction, Aftermath: Jordan Ralph and Burchell Hayes
2022-4 Excavations Research Design: Michael Slack, Gavin Ashburton and Tim Ashburton
Results – Excavations: Liam Neill, Gavin Ashburton and Tim Ashburton
Results – Lithics: Liam Neill and Birgitta Stephenson
Results – Fauna: Tim Churchill
Results – Archaeo-botany: Elise Matheson
Special Finds: Josh Connelly and Burchell Hayes
Juukan Legacy: Jordan Ralph and Burchell Hayes
Discussion Panel Chaired by Claire Smith
1C – Building New Narratives of Cross-Cultural Encounter and Exchange
Room M9
Decolonising Cross Cultural Entanglements Through Time: Narratives of Sovereignty, Heritage, and Human Rights
David Tutchener **WITHDRAWN**
The Entanglement of Recent Amurdak Rock Paintings, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Stories and Exchange in Northwest Arnhem Land, Australia
Paul Taćon
Flinders Island Group: Incorporating Rock Art Motifs to Assess Narratives of Connection
Olivia Arnold
Pre-Colonial Globalisation?: The Connected Landscapes of the Groote Eylandt Archipelago and the Early Modern Island Southeast Asian Forest and Marine Commodity Trade, Materialised Through Organic Residue Analysis of Archaeological Makassan Earthenware
Kellie Clayton
Isolation, Semi-Isolation vs Encounters
Mike Rowland
‘The Country of My Brother-in-Law’: Makassan Encounters and Kinship with Yanyuwa People in the Gulf of Carpentaria
Chris Urwin
12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch and AA Journal Editorial Meeting (P1) & ANCTL Meeting (P2)
1:30pm - 3:30pm
2A – Archaeological Science in the Narration of the Past
Room P1
Creating Narratives from Archaeological Trace Material and Introducing Multi-Taphon-Omics
Carney Matheson
Site Formation History of Widgingarri Shelter 1, Kimberley, WA: Insights from Combined Soil Micromorphology Analysis and Single-Grain OSL Dating
Wanchese Saktura
An Actualistic Taphonomic Study Exploring Site Formation in the Submerged Caves of Mount Gambier, South Australia
Meg Walker
Geoarchaeological Narratives in Australasian Archaeological Contexts
Lauren Prossor
Soil as Memory: Microarchaeology and Geoarchaeology Services within Heritage Consultancy
Elle Grono
Storytelling Through Excavation: Adding Conservation Science to the Archaeologist’s Toolkit
Lucy Welsh
2B – Sharing the Archaeology of SE Cape York Peninsula: The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project
Room P2
The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project: From the Beginnings of Our Story, to the Middle, and Looking Towards the End
Regan Hart
Mapping Cooktown Ironwood Sugarbag Trees in the Laura Sandstone Basin, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Cat Morgan
Rising Tides: The Impact of Changing Sea Levels on Coastal Heritage Sites in Cape Melville National Park, Cape York Peninsula
Mia Dardengo
Analysing a Late Holocene Lithic Assemblage From Windmill Way, Southeast Cape York Peninsula
Rebecca Hagan
A Late Holocene Assemblage of Bone Artefacts from Quinkan Country, Southeast Cape York Peninsula
Lynley Wallis
Analysis of Resin-Hafted Artefacts and Plant Fibre Technology from Windmill Way, Laura, QLD
Kim Vernon
2C – When Absence is Presence: Sharing Epistemologies to Bring Understanding to Narratives of Absence
Room M9
Predictive Balance
Annie Ross
Always a Trace: Archaeological Absence, Indigenous Presence and Depictions of “Contact” Experiences in North Australian Rock Art
Liam Brady
Intangible Nyikina Archaeology
Emily Poelina-Hunter
Cultural Landscapes, Addressing the Intratangible: Frameworks for Managing Cultural Presence in Archaeological Absence
Damien Piro
Applications of Archaeological and Anthropological Methods to Narrative Case Study, Pilbara, Western Australia, c.1890-1945
Amber Wesley
Does No Artefacts = No Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung People? Challenging Notions of Absence Through Mapping, Modelling and Knowledge Recording in a Traditional Custodian-Led Strategic Aboriginal Heritage Assessment of Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country, Melbourne
Caroline Spry
3:30pm - 4:00pm | Afternoon Tea
4:00pm - 6:00pm
3A – Archaeological Science in the Narration of the Past
Room P1
Using Obsidian Sourcing to Reveal Stories of Early Island Exchange Networks in Southern Wallacea
Shimona Kealy
Applications of the Herron (1988) SandClass Diagram for Sedimentary Lithic Characterisation and Sourcing
Emily Nutman
Undressing the Native Mounted Police: Paint Composition of a Sorcery Motif in Southern Cape York Peninsula
Jillian Huntley
Evidence for a Microbial Oxalate Source in Australian Rock Coatings Based on Trace Organic Analysis
Helen Green
ArcGIS Based Edge Damage Distribution Analysis on Stone Tools Used for Piercing Tasks
Courtney Jane McCreery
Singing Rocks, Talking Heads and Whispering Country: Collaborative Learning/Teaching with The Ngaanyatjarra Lands School, Western Australia
Birgitta Stephenson
3B – Sharing the Archaeology of SE Cape York Peninsula: The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project
Room P2
Characterising Formation Pathways of Oxalate Accretions: Implications for Radiocarbon Dating Rock Art
Courtney Webster
Heather Burke
Bryce Barker
You Don’t Need Much of the Good Stuff: Recreating Rock Art Motifs During Ochre Workshops in the ABM Project
Virginia Burns
Exploring the Potential of Motif Photographic Documentation as an Effective Monitoring Method for Rock Art Conservation: A Case Study from Quinkan Country
Tristen Jones
Glass Beads in a Dillybag: A Cached Assemblage from a Rockshelter in Quinkan Country, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Gabriella McLay
3C – Rock Art Stories
Room M9
Cultural Connections: Stories Imbued in Rock Art
Melissa Marshall
Contextualising 3D Cultural Heritage: An Indigenous Photogrammetry Model for Conservation at Ubirr Rock Art Complex
Sam Provost
Archaeology, Ethnology and Contemporary Aboriginal Viewpoint: Developing an Understanding of Archaeological Patterning of the Rock Art and Other Cultural Features of the Upper Blue Mountains NSW, Australia
Wayne R Brennan
Brilliant Blue: The Blue Rock Art of Awunbarna, Northern Territory, Australia
Sally May
Nayombolmi Blue
Joakim Goldhahn
Snake and Moon ‘Right Way Marriage’ Stories and Images
Jane Balme
6:15pm - 7:15pm
Australian Association of Consulting Archeaologists Inc. (AACAI) Annual General Meeting (Room P2)
7:15pm - 9:00pm
Meet the Graduates & Colleagues (Mezzanine)
Thursday 5 December
9:00am - 10:00am
Keynote Presentation –
‘The Deep Past and a Shared Future’: Exploring Archaeology’s Role in Solving the World’s Most Urgent Challenges
Prof John Schofield, University of York
10:00am - 10:30am | Morning Tea
10:30am - 12:30pm
4A – Shared Heritage in the Consulting World (Lightning)
Room P1
Ask and Listen: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Yindjibarndi Cultural Heritage in a Highly Active Industrial Context
Ian Ryan
A Vision for Leading Practice for Cultural Heritage: The Role of the Dhawura Ngilan in Business as Defined by Indigenous Australians
Robin Twaddle
Impacts of Environmental Watering on Heritage Places Within Gunbower Forest
Jamie Rooney
Working Together the Right Way: Kaurna Cultural Leadership and Shared Heritage Management Processes for Major Development Projects in Adelaide, South Australia
Neale Draper
Supply vs Demand: A Current Challenge for Cultural Heritage Management
Robyn Jenkins
Kate Greenwood
Community Driven Cultural Heritage Management on Puutu Kunti Kurrama Country
Denis Coutant
DISCUSSION
4B – Exploring the Whole Narrative: Combining Story-Telling, Science and Technology (Lightning)
Room P2
Creating Virtual Narratives: Promise and Challenge of Digital Data in a Virtual Past
Calum Farrar
Storytelling, Setting the Record Straight About the Shared History of Aboriginal Australians and their Lived Experience in the Pastoral Industry
Delyna Baxter **WITHDRAWN**
Roadside Memorials: Exploring The Roadside as a Cultural Landscape Through Technological Integration
Cassie Gordon
Integrating Indigenous Knowledge, Heritage, and New Technologies in Sea Country Research
Redbird Ferguson
A Methodology for Reidentifying Submerged Aboriginal Sites on the Continental Shelf
Jake Allen
Protecting Cultural Heritage Through Djaara’s Narrative of Country
Sophia Jackson
This Country: Using Videography to Share Stories About Country, Culture and Place
Natalie Taylor
DISCUSSION
4C – Sharing Community-Owned Narratives to Heritage Management (Lightning)
Room M9
Strengthening Collaborative Heritage Management
Jake Goodes
Mindurru: Pinikura Approach to Mapping Cultural Landscapes Under Threat
Terry Drage
Rock Art Recording and the Carbon Economy
Alice Buhrich
Janine Coombs
Ongoing Research at the Undara Lava Tubes
Shannah Prior
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and the Limitations of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act: An Analysis of Eastern Maar Nation Sites Beyond the Standard Legislation
Emily Corris
Resetting Heritage Management Through Changing Narratives
Katherine Thomas
Jawoyn Cultural Work in a Living Cultural Landscape: Narratives in the Management of Culture and Heritage in Kakadu National Park
Ethan Williams
Managing Cultural Heritage Landscapes with Fire
Leroy Malseed
DISCUSSION
12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch and NCCRAA Meeting (P1) & National Archaeology Week Meeting (P2)
1:30pm - 3:30pm
5A – Shared and Contested Narratives in the History of Australian and Pacific Archaeology
Room P1
Their Ways and Our Ways: Experiencing the Shared and Exploring the Contested Narratives of Archaeology on Taungurung Country
Jonah Honeysett
Anima Mundi, Why the Tiwi Islanders Sang in the Vatican Museums, and Created New Knowledge from 100 Years Ago, for the Future
Katherine Aigner
Old Stories in New Relations: Indigenous Agency in the Context of an Ethnographic Archive Collection from Two German Expeditions to the Kimberley
Christina Henneke
Gwion Gwion Rock Art and the “Frobenius Expeditions” to the Kimberley (1938, 1954/1955)
Martin Porr
The History of Experimental Stone Knapping and the Australian Contribution: A Contested Narrative or Merely Forgotten?
Matthew Spriggs
First Nations Australian Cultural Heritage Materials and Ancestors in the Collections of Imperial Russia
Hilary Howes
5B – Stories All the Way Down: Narrating the Past in the Present
Room P2
Telling (and Listening to) Meaningful Stories About the Past
Madeleine Kelly
Voice: A Third Space for Indigenous Theory Building in Archaeology
Kellie Pollard
The Limitations of Western Ideologies and How They Have Influenced the Megafauna Debate
Jacinta Koolmatrie
A Collaborative Deep Time History of Plant Use in Australia: Stories and Investigative Frameworks from Queensland’s Channel Country
Makayla Harding
Total Landscape, Objects/Things, and Value
Tim Owen
Storytelling with Microbiographies in the Archaeology of Immigration
Kimberley Connor
5C – Designing Archaeological Education Programs for Primary and Secondary Students (Workshop)
Room M9
Workshop Convenors:
Georgia Stannard and Georgia Williams
3:30pm - 4:00pm | Afternoon Tea
4:00pm - 5:00pm
6A – Shared and Contested Narratives in the History of Australian and Pacific Archaeology
Room P1
Collaborative Australian and Pacific Archaeological Conservation, How Did We Start, and Where Are We Now?
Holly Jones-Amin
Multivocal in Aspiration, Homogenous in Practice
Michael Lever
DISCUSSION
6B – Stories All the Way Down: Narrating the Past in the Present
Room P2
One More Time with Feeling: Centring Emotion in Archaeological Narratives of Institutions
Meg Drummond-Wilson
What Lies Beneath
Anita Yousif
DISCUSSION
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) Annual General Meeting (Room P2)
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Rainbow Dinner
Miss Chief, Level 1/39-49 Lake St, Cairns
Friday 6 December
9:00am - 10:00am
Keynote Presentation –
Australian Indigenous Archaeologists Association (AIAA) Panel: Celebrating Shared Knowledge: Looking Back to Looking Forward
Panelists: Babani Robyne Bancroft, Southern Cross University, Nathan Woolford, Flinders University, Dr Galiina Ellwood, AIAA and Dr Annie Ross, The University of Queensland
Moderator: Dave Johnston-Pitt, Australian National University
10:00am - 10:30am | Morning Tea
10:30am - 12:30pm
7A – Highlighting Collaborative Research and Exploring Narratives of the Past in New Guinea
Room P1
A Collaborative Model for Archaeological Research in the Middle Purari, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea
Avis Babalu
Hunting and Subsistence in Northern New Guinea from the Pleistocene to the Recent Past: The Evidence from Lachitu Cave, Papua New Guinea
Loukas Koungoulos
Diprotodon and Denisovans and the Highlands of Sahul
Michael Westaway
Collaboration in PNG
Matthew Leavesley
DISCUSSION
7B – Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming
Room P2
The Age is Written in the Rocks: Testing New Luminescence Methods to Directly Date Rock Engravings and Stone Structures at Murujuga
Luke Gliganic
Katy Evans
Major and Trace Element Compositions of Rosemary Island Gabbro Rock Art Canvases (Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia)
Ishara Pathirage
Characterising the Potential of Rock Varnish at Murujuga as a Chronological Record
Ying-Li Wu
The Geospatial Distribution of Rock Varnish on Rosemary Island, Dampier Archipelago
John Fairweather
Murujuga Rock Art Monitoring Project: A World First in the Science of Conservation of Rock Art
Ben Mullins
7C – Creative Archaeology: Communicating Archaeology through Art, Performance and Fiction
Room M9
Creative Responses: Archaeology Reimagined
Darran Jordan
Ludic Depictions of Human Subsistence: Using a Board Game to Communicate Archaeological Narratives
Joshua Willsher
The Creative Future of Artefact Displays in Foyers and Lobbies: Moving Beyond the Static
Carmen Baulch
It is Written in the Stones
Jacinta Warland **WITHDRAWN**
‘The Analogy of an Archaeology Dig’: Australian Archaeology on Stage
Simon Wyatt-Spratt
Finding Nothing? Revaluing Discovery and Disappointment in Practice-Based Research Through Collaborative Archaeology-Art Work
Ursula K Frederick
12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch and AO Journal Meeting (P1)
1:30pm - 3:30pm
8A – Tales from Tools: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Stone Artefacts
Room P1
The Shape of Resilience: Reconstructing Muller Morphologies in Goodingu, Thalanyji Country
Armita Ghassemifar
Out of the Kitchen
Colin Pardoe
Stone and Fire: A High-Density Lithic Assemblage from a Rockshelter on Marra Country, Northern Territory
Jenna Walsh
A Second Cache of Tula Adzes from the Boulia District, Western Queensland
Yinika Perston
Investigating the Berribee Silcrete Quarry and Stone Raw Material Transport and Use in Northwest Victoria, First People of the Millewa Mallee Country
Isabel Tickle
DISCUSSION
8B – Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming
Room P2
Seafaring Competencies and Interisland Voyaging Through Murujuga During the Holocene
Michael O’Leary
New Knowledge of Holocene Hydroclimate and Freshwater Availability at Murujuga
Caroline Mather
The Tufa Pollen Record of Holocene Murujuga
Eva Lowe
Mapping Surface Hydrologic Features of Murujuga
Diego da Silva Turollo
How Science Adds to the Shared Narrative
Jo McDonald
DISCUSSION
8C – Coral Sea Connections: Agentive People, Objects, Ideas
Room M9
4000 Years of Maritime Interactions in the Massim Islands of Southeastern Papua New Guinea: Connecting Local Histories and Regional Models
Ben Shaw
Exchange Relations and the Changing Significance of Archaeological Research on the South Coast of Papua New Guinea
Robert Skelly
PNG National Museum and Art Gallery: Regulatory Responsibilities and 3000 Years of Regional Seafaring Interactions Viewed Through Museum Collections
Kylie Sesuki
Subsistence and Beyond: People-Mollusc Engagement Across the Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere
Michael Kneppers
An Evaluation of Geochemical Data Available for Sourcing Stone Axes in PNG: The Case of the Kiwai Axes
Michelle J Richards
The Waiet Archaeology Project: Results from 2022-2023 Field Seasons
Duncan Wright
3:30pm - 4:30pm | Afternoon Tea & Poster Session (Mezzanine)
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Conference Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Saturday 7 December
9:00am - 12:00pm
Hands on Country Eco Tour
9:00am - 5:00pm
Dreamtime Snorkel Reef Cruise