Digging It Up Down Under

A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia

By: Claire Smith, Heather Burke

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Hardcover | 17 November 2006

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Digg^f^g it up Down Under is the first book in a new series of Global Cultural Heritage Manuals being published by Springer. The aim of this series is to provide the essential information needed to conduct archaeological fieldwork in various parts of the world. This series of hands-on field manuals have been written for both undergraduate and graduate students, and for emerging professionals. Each book constitutes a step-by-step guide to undertaking and successfully completing cultural heritage fieldwork in a particular country or region. The Global Cultural Heritage Manuals Series fills the need for a cohesive series of regional field manuals for archaeologists. While there are a number of useful books that provide an introduction to archaeological techniques, these books tend to focus primarily on conditions in North America or Britain, and this makes them of limited value to archaeologists working in other parts of the world. The Global Cultural Heritage Manuals Series fills this gap, not only through providing information specifically crafted to the ethical, legislative and environ- mental conditions of each region or country, but also by providing the detailed advice on the complex process of undertaking archaeological fieldwork in dif- ferent parts of the world. The books in this series are structured so they guide practitioners through the entire archaeological process, from research design and obtaining funding, visas and permissions, to site recording, analysis, report writing and other forms of publication.

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"Smith and Burke have produced an interesting and engaging introduction to doing archaeology in Australia, not just in terms of procedure, but also its historical, ethical, and social contexts. And the authors do so in a way that not only addresses the needs of professional archaeologists, but also, through the scope and style of the volume, makes a great deal of information accessible to students, Indigenous communities, heritage managers, and non-government organisations ... ." (George Nicholas, Australian Archaeology, Vol. 68, June, 2009)

Digging It Up Down Under often reads like an archaeologist's edition of The Rough Guide to Australia... This volume clearly provides the local knowledge necessary to prepare any archaeologist (or student, or volunteer) for a field season or job in the Land Down Under....the greatest appeal of this volume is its potential to help further engage archaeologists - no matter where they work - in cross-cultural discussions about their roles as cultural heritage managers. (Lynda Carroll, Historical Archaeology 44:2 Spring 2010)

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A brief history of Australian archaeology	p. 1
An introduction to indigenous Australia	p. 23
Finding funding	p. 58
Living it up down under : working in an Australian setting	p. 88
Working with the legislation	p. 124
Doing archaeology in aboriginal Australia	p. 165
Doing historical archaeology in Australia	p. 194
Doing maritime archaeology in Australia	p. 215
Conserving and managing cultural heritage	p. 227
Documentation and publication	p. 254
Australian archaeology yellow pages
Codes of ethics
Converting between metric and non-metric systems
Sample consent forms
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Digging It Up Down Under

A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia

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