Archaeology of the Modern City

Archaeology of the Modern City

Publications

Historical Archaeological Studies

• Keeping up with the McNamaras: A Historical Archaeological Study of the Cumberland and Gloucester Street site, The Rocks, Sydney (Vol8) ((pdf 16.03MB)
• The Historical Archaeology of the First Government House site, Sydney (pdf 16.58MB)
• An Archaeology of Institutional Refuge: The Material Culture of the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney 1848–1886 (pdf 9.10MB)

Database Guides

• Guide to The EAMC Archaeology Database (pdf 4.34MB)
• People+Place: A Guide to Using the Database (pdf 5.42MB)

Resource Assessment Reports

• Paddy's Market Site (pdf 328KB)
• Susannah Place Site (pdf 276KB)
• Cumberland & Gloucester Streets Site (pdf 334KB)
• Hyde Park Barracks (pdf 395KB)
• First Government House Site (pdf 433KB)
• Royal Mint Site (pdf 316KB)
• Lilyvale Site (pdf 330KB)

The publications listed above are also available in hard-copy format. As we offer them on a 'print-on-demand' basis prices will vary from time to time. Please contact Tim Murray (t.murray@latrobe.edu.au) for further details.

To view the above reports, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. It can be downloaded here.

Other Publications

• T. Murray 2001, ‘Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City’, Heritage NSW newsletter, vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 6–7.
• T. Murray 2002, 'But that was that long ago: theory in Australian historical archaeology 2002', Australasian Historical Archaeology, vol. 20, pp. 8–14
• N. Iacono 2002, 'Beyond the Breach: Strategies for Archaeological Management Plans', Australian Historical Archaeology, vol. 20, pp. 39–47.
• P. Crook, S. Lawrence and M. Gibbs 2002, ‘The role of artefact catalogues in Australian historical archaeology: a framework for discussion’, Australasian Historical Archaeology, vol. 20, pp. 26–38.
• T. Murray (ed.) 2003, Exploring the Modern City: Recent Approaches to Urban History and Archaeology, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney.
• T. Murray, P. Crook and L. Ellmoos 2003, ‘Understanding the Archaeology of the Modern City’, in T. Murray (ed.), Exploring the Modern City: Recent Approaches to Urban History and Archaeology, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney.
• N. Iacono 2003, 'Managing the archaeology of the modern city: Doctoral abstract', Postmedieval Archaeology Society Newsletter, second series, No. 57.
• T. Murray, G. Karskens and A. Mayne 2004, 'Explorations in Slumland: a reprise', Australasian Historical Archaeology,vol. 22, pp. 94–97.
• P. Crook and T. Murray 2004, ‘The Analysis of Cesspit Deposits from the Rocks’, Australian Historical Archaeology, vol. 22, pp. 44–56.
• T. Murray and P. Crook 2005, ‘Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City: Issues of Scale, Integration and Complexity’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 89–109.
• Editorial Introduction. In Tim Murray (ed.) 2006, Archaeology of the Casselden Place Site, Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10(4): 291-298.
• Integrating archaeology and history at the ‘Commonwealth Block’, ‘Little Lon’ and Casselden Place Sites. In Tim Murray (ed.) 2006, Archaeology of the Casselden Place Site, Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10(4): 385-403.
• T. Murray, R. Mackay and G. Wilson 2007, Historical archaeology at Camp Street, Ballarat, Victoria. In A. Mayne (ed.) Eureka 1854-2004: Reappraising an Australian Legend, pp. 97-103. Curtin University Books: Perth.

Edited journals

2006      

Tim Murray Volume 10(4) Archaeology of the Casselden Place Site, Melbourne, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology

Interviews

2007              

Gavin Lucas, Visions of archaeology: An Interview with Tim Murray. Archaeological Dialogues 14(2): 155-177.

Conference and Seminar Papers

Tim Murray    

2001   

• 'Forging new relationships between archaeology and history: lessons from the archaeology of the modern world', Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 14 January.
• 'Varieties of History and varieties of Archaeology', ARCHON – Graduate School of the faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, 19 January.
• 'Some recent examples of historical archaeology in the community', to the AIPA forum: Archaeology in the Community, 17 March.
• 'Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City', Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Canberra, September.

2002

• 'Doing the Archaeology of a Vanished Community', La Trobe Politics Society November.
  

2003

• 'Varieties of history, varieties of archaeology', keynote address at the Australian Historical Association 30th Anniversary Meeting, Mildura, 29 September.
• 'Understanding the Archaeology of the Modern City', Urban History Symposium, Museum of Sydney, 2 May.

2004

• 'Global City: An Archaeology of Victorian London', Museum of London at Docklands, 9 June.
• 'Exploring the archaeology of the modern city: Melbourne, Sydney and London in the 19th century', the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 15 June.
• 'Exploring the archaeology of the modern city: a global and local phenomenon', University of Göteborg, Sweden, 13 December.
• 'Lessons from cesspits at the end of the world: an archaeology of the Imperial periphery in 19th century Sydney', University of Göteborg, Sweden, 14 December.

2005

• 'Exploring the archaeology of the modern city: Melbourne, Sydney and London in the 19th century', department of Archaeology University of Durham, 1 February.
• 'Anthropology and archaeology in the making of contemporary Australia', 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, 7 July

2006

• Adventures in the Archaeology of the Modern World: Melbourne’s ‘Commonwealth Block’. De-partment of Archaeology, Leiden University, 1 May.
• Creating Commonwealth and transnational archaeologies. Smuts Lectures, University of Cam-bridge, 3 May.
• Archaeologies of indigenous contact, settler colonialism and postcolonial societies. Smuts Lectures, University of Cambridge, 4 May.
• Cities and nations: the movements of people and things – 1. Smuts Lectures, University of Cambridge, 8 May.
• Cities and nations: the movements of people and things – 2. Smuts Lectures, University of Cambridge, 9 May.
• Creating Commonwealth, Imperial and Transnational Archaeologies. Archaeology Program, La Trobe University. 1 June.

2007

• The archaeology of the modern world. Department of Archaeology, University of Leicester 28 February.
• Building transnational archaeologies in the modern world, Centre for Archaeological Research, Australian National University, 18 May.
• Transnational archaeologies, New Ground conference, Sydney, 22 September.
• Creating Transnational Historical Archaeologies Of The Modern World 1600- Present, USTC, He-fei, PRC 4 December.

2008

• Archaeology and heritage in the modern city: Melbourne’s ‘Commonwealth Block’ to the Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology, Dialogues with the Past: Culture and Heritage. The practices of owning the past. Swedish Institute, Alexandria Egypt (March).

Penny Crook

2002

• 'Archaeology of the Modern City: A Progress Report', University of Sydney weekly seminar series, 13 September.

2004

• 'Archaeology of the Modern City: A Progress Report', Sydney Historical Archaeology Workshop, Newtown, 5 November.

2006

• 'Linking People and Place: The Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City Project', Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Darwin, 16 September.