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Kris Courtney

Postgraduate Student Room: Martin Building 157 Tel: (61 3) 9479 1386 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881 Email:kcourtney@students.latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA The University of Melbourne; Graduate Diploma, La Trobe University; Master of Arts (thesis by research), The University of Melbourne;Elected Fellow, Académie Internationale de la Pipe (The University of Liverpool)

Research Interests

• Australian historical and contact archaeology.
  
• Nineteenth-century clay smoking-pipes.
  
• Casselden Place and “Little Lon”, Melbourne and the archaeology of whaling sites.
  
• Australian Indigenous archaeology, culture and art including the Torres Strait Islands.
  
• French, Italian and Greek language and culture.
  
• The history and archaeology of the Irish Diaspora.

Current Research Topic/Supervisor
Topic: From Marvellous Melbourne to the End of the World: clay tobacco pipes from Casselden Place, Melbourne and Bruny Island and the Forestier Peninsula, Tasmania; a comparative study
Supervisors: Dr Susan Lawrence, Professor Tim Murray

• Publications
  Courtney, K. 2007 Clay smoking-pipes. In Connah, G. (ed.) 2007. The same under a different sky? A country estate in nineteenth-century New South Wales. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. International Series 1625. pp. 223–231.
• Courtney, K. 2006. Analysis and Report on the Clay Tobacco Pipes from Lake Innes Estate. Report to Emeritus Professor Graham Connah, Australian National University and University of New England.
• Courtney, K. 2005. The Clay Pipe Fragments of Koey Ngurtai, Torres Strait, (Stage 2) Final Report. Report to the Mura Badulgal (Torres Strait Islanders Corporation, Badu, and Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island).  Cultural Heritage Report Series: 9. Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University: 114-131.
• Courtney, K. 2005. Artefact Analysis and Report on the Clay Tobacco Pipes from Tudu (Warrior Island) Ceremonial Site, Central Torres Strait.Report to Dr Ian J. McNiven, Senior Lecturer (Australian Archaeology) Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology, School of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University. Courtney, K. 2000. Clay Smoking Pipes from Victorian Archaeological Sites. The Bulletin (Newsletter of the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria), June 2000, pp 5–8.
• Courtney, K. and B. David 2005. Clay Pipes. In David, B. and Ian J. McNiven Archaeological Survey and Salvage Programme of Koey Ngurtai, Torres Strait, (Stage 2) Final Report. Report to the Mura Badulgal (Torres Strait Islanders Corporation, Badu, and Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island). Cultural Heritage Report Series: 9 Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University 113-114.
  Courtney, K. 1999. Preliminary Report on the Clay Tobacco Pipes from Hyde Park Barracks.  Report prepared for Dr Lynn Collins, Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Sydney.
• Courtney, K. 1998 Piece Pipes: Clay Tobacco Pipes from the site of ‘Little Lon’, Melbourne Australia, (unpublished) MA thesis by research, School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology and the Department of History, The University of Melbourne.
  Courtney, K. & Ian J. McNiven1998 Clay Tobacco Pipes from Aboriginal Middens on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australian Archaeology Vol 47: 44-53.
• Courtney, K. 1997. Clay Tobacco Pipes from Viewbank Homestead.  Report prepared for Dr Leah McKenzie, Victorian Department of Infrastructure, Victoria.
• Courtney, K. 1996. Clay Tobacco Pipes from Fraser Island, Queensland. Report to Dr Ian J. McNiven Senior Lecturer (Australian Archaeology), Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology, School of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University.
• Courtney, K. In Press. ‘Little Lon’: A nineteenth-century urban historical archaeological site in Melbourne, Australia. The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. Oxford. (Editors Dr Peter Davey, Dr David Higgins).
• David, B., Ian McNiven, Joe Crouch, Mura Badulgal Corporation Committee, Robert Skelly, Bryce Barker, Kris Courtney and Geoffrey Hewitt. In Press. Koey Ngurtai: the emergence of a ritual domain in Western Torres Strait. Archaeology in Oceania. 
• Courtney, K.  In Press The care and handling of excavated clay tobacco pipes: some recommendations. Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter.
  McNiven, I. J., Ward, J. and Courtney, K. (forthcoming) Fragmented Offerings: Material Culture Transformations and the Tudu Dugong Bone Mound, Central Torres Strait.
• David, B., and Courtney, K. (forthcoming) Clay Pipes from Koey Ngurtai, Torres Western Torres Strait (Journal article for submission to Australian Archaeology.)
• Courtney, K. and Bruno David 2004 (forthcoming) Clay pipes from Koey Ngurtai, Torres Strait Islands.  In David, B. and McNiven, I. J. (Monograph to be titled).
• Courtney, K.  (forthcoming) Clay Smoking Pipes from the Site of Sös Höyuk, North-east Turkey, In Sagona, A.G. et al, forthcoming, Excavations at Sös Höyuk, Final Report.
• Courtney, K.  and Graham Connah (forthcoming) Different Smokes: the archaeology of gender and social status in a nineteenth century smoking-pipe assemblage from the Lake Innes Estate, Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
• Courtney, Kris and Susan Lawrence (forthcoming) No Smoke without Fire: experimental replication studies on short-stemmed white clay smoking pipes.

Current Funding Acknowledgements

• La Trobe University Post Graduate Research Scholarship
  
• La Trobe University School of Historical and European Studies Grant
  
• La Trobe University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Grant
  
• Museum Victoria 1854 Scholarship

Professional Involvements

• Elected Fellow, Academie Intérnationale de la Pipe
  
• Member of the Society for Clay Pipe research
  
• Member of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology
  
• Member of the Australian Archaeological Association

Further Reading

• Lawrence, Susan 2006 Whalers and Free Men: Life on Tasmania’s Colonial Whaling Stations. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishers.
  Lawrence, Susan (ed.) 2003 Archaeologies of the British:  Explorations of Identity in Great Britain and its Colonies 1600-1945, Routledge, London.
  
• Lawrence, Susan 1999 Towards a Feminist Archaeology of Households: Gender and Household Structure on the Australian Goldfields, in P. Allison, ed, The Archaeology of Household Activities.  Routledge, London.  pp. 121-141.
  
• Murray, T. 2004 Archaeology from Australia. Australian Scholarly Publications: Melbourne.
  
• Murray, T. 2004 The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies. Cambridge University Press.
  
• Murray, T. 2004 Exploring the Archaeology of a vanished community at ‘Little Lon’. In T. Murray (ed.) Archaeology from Australia, pp.116-130. Australian Scholarly Publishing: Melbourne.
  
• Murray, T. and Alan Mayne 2001 Imaginary Landscapes: Reading Melbourne’s ‘Little Lon’. In Alan Mayne and Tim Murray (eds) The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland, pp. 89-105. Cambridge University Press.

External Links  

• Society for Clay Pipe Research scpr@talktalk.net
  
• Historic Clay Tobacco Pipe Studies http://www.claypipes.com/UK.htm
  
• Museum Victoria website TBA
  
• Heritage Victoria website TBA

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