Facilities and resources

• The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory (TAAL)

  The Australian Archaeomagnetism Laboratory (TAAL) is a purpose built archaeological geophysics and archaeomagnetic research and teaching laboratory associated with the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and is run by Assoc. Prof. Andy Herries.
  The current facility was built at La Trobe between 2011 and 2012, and was specifically designed for work on archaeological and fossil bearing sites as part of the development of archaeological science, archaeometry and geoarchaeological research and teaching within Archaeology at La Trobe.
  Please contact Assoc. Prof. Andy Herries (A.Herries@latrobe.edu.au) for more information.



• The Molecular Archaeology Laboratory:

  The Molecular Archaeology Laboratory at La Trobe University is dedicated to the analysis of ancient biomolecules, in order to obtain archaeological information.
  The quarantine approved laboratory, housed in the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Sciences (LIMS), contains wet chemical preparation areas for extraction and purification of ancient proteins such as bone collagen, hair keratin, muscle, skin. The facilities available include a fumehood, centrifuges, heating blocks, -80°C freezer, freeze drier, rotary vacuum desiccator and a microbalance.
  The lab also runs a Thermo Scientific (LC-Isolink) Liquid Chromatography Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (LC-IRMS) housed in the LIMS equipment suite. The LC-IRMS is dedicated to analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon in amino acids as a means of obtaining in depth palaeodietary information. We have also applied the technique to other materials such as stalagmites and corals.

  For further information please contact Dr Colin Smith (+61 3 94796575; colin.smith@latrobe.edu.au)

• TARDIS (Teaching Archaeological Research Discipline in Simulation)

  

Since 2009, La Trobe has offered undergraduate archaeology students the chance to gain practical experience in excavating an artificial site on the Bundoora campus.
The project – known as TARDIS (Teaching Archaeological Research Discipline In Simulation) – uses an artificial site with a series of scenarios from various times and places in the past which students excavate. The TARDIS has seven layers, with Historical Australia at the top, followed by Mayan Mesoamerica, Bronze Age Cyprus, Neolithic China, Natufian Jordan, Indigenous Pleistocene Australia, and Plio-Pleistocene Africa.

• Australian Zooarchaeology image database of Australian mammal species

• Deneia Archive of Bronze Age pottery from Cyprus

• The archaeology of Lascaux Cave

• The archaeology of Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave

Facebook pages:

• Jillian Garvey's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award project on Aboriginal archaeology at Neds Corner, northwestern Victoria, Australia
• Andy Herries' on-going research on the palaeoanthropology and archaeology of Drimolen Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
• Matthew Carter's 'The First Ships Project' in New Zealand

• Caroline Spry on undertaking PhD research at Lake Mungo, southwestern New South Wales, Australia
• Matt Carter on his PhD research as part of 'The First Ships Project' in New Zealand

• ABC's First Footprints documentary series

  Features Nicola Stern on research at Lake Mungo and Richard Cosgrove's on investigations in southwestern Tasmania and tropical Queensland.

• Jillian Garvey

  • 'Major archaeological project underway' (La Trobe University News).
  • Interview with Geomagazine on the Simpson Desert Palaeontology Expedition, 2014.
  • 'The Australian palaeodiets: 40,000 years in the making' (La Trobe University Big FAT Ideas 2014).

• Nicola Stern

  • Study to create the first archive of human evolution at Lake Mungo (ABC)
  • Uncovering the science of archaeology at Lake Mungo (ABC)

• History of Australian-American Fulbright Program

  (created by Dr Alice Garner)

• History of Kew Cottages

  (created by Lee-Ann Monk)

• History of Cocoa

  (created by Emma Robertson)

• Lola Montex 19th Century Radical

  (based on an original article by Clare Wright)

History Facebook page

The Facebook page for the La Trobe University History Program provides updates on the latest news, events and all things LTU History!

Twitter handles

• Dr Emma Robertson @chochistory
• Dr Giselle Roberts @Gisellemroberts
• Dr Nadia Rhook @NadiRhook
• Associate Professor Ian Coller @histor_ian
• Kate Laing @kateleonie
• Jayne Rantall @JayneRantall

• Clare Wright

  • One-Plus-One (ABC)
  • The War that Changed Us (ABC)
    Created and cowritten by Clare Wright.
    Nominated for Logie for Best Factual Program 2015.
    Nominated for ATOM Award for Best Docudrama 2015.
  • Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote (ABC)
    Written and presented by Clare Wright.
    Shortlisted for NSW Premiers History Award for Best Multimedia.

• Alex McDermott's 'Australia: The story of us' (Yahoo TV)

  LTU History Postgraduate Alex McDermott is the Senior Researcher and Associate Producer for Channel 7's blockbuster history documentary series AUSTRALIA: THE STORY OF US. The first episode went to air last night. John Hirst wrote some of the scripts and Clare Wright appears as an expert interview in some of the episodes. Our Postgraduates Kate Laing and Nicole Curby also worked as researchers on the series.
  Here's what Fairfax television critic Melinda Houston said:
  "The Story of Us takes key moments and characters from Australian history to tell the story of the nation. It is not a professorial piece of work, but it does not pretend to be. It's a rollicking yarn built on solid fact and, by that measure, it works splendidly."

• Timothy Jones on child sexual abuse within religious institutions (The Conversation)
• Nadia Rhook's 3CR podcast on Migrant Life in 'improper' colonial Melbourne (3CR)
• Janet Butler on the Imperial Camel Corps (ABC)

• Janet Butler

  • On Gallipoli and the Great War
  • On the Imperial Camel Corps
  • On friendship at war

• Leonie Stevens

  • On putting history in its place

• Kate Laing's 'A century of peace work' (The National Library of Australia Magazine)
• Tracey Banivanua Mar's 'Remember the Pacific's people when we remember the war in the Pacific' (The Conversation)
• Nadia Rhook's ' 'Marginality' in the Hoddle grid and the colour of public memory' (Peril)
• Liz Conor's 'A little brown-eyed babe washed ashore' (New Matilda)
• Tim Jones
  • 'Gay marriage, marriage equality… what's the difference?' (The Conversation)
  • 'Religious freedom should not necessitate sexual discrimination' (The Conversation)
  • 'Paedophile priests are criminals, not sinners' (The Age)
• Clare Wright
  • 'Lest we forget our other heroes of war, fighting for freedom at home' (The Conversation)
  • 'Flash femmes and other forgotten figures of the Eureka Stockade' (The Conversation)
  • 'The other Australia Day: November 11 throughout history' (The Conversation)
  • 'Women are central to Australia's history. Why have we forgotten them?' (The Guardian)
  • "History, writing and television: An Interview with Clare Wright' (Australian Women Writers)
  • 'Forgetting to remember' (Griffith Review)
  • 'The 2014 Stella Prize award night: Speeches & pics' (The Stella Prize)
• Janet Butler 'Friendship in war was not just confined to bonds between men' (The Conversation)

• Janet Butler on what comprises a defining moment (REAL)
  Credit: REAL Season 05.  Produced through Media Arts, La Trobe University. 2014.
• Adelina Modesti's presentation on 'Women artists of early modern Italy: New archival studies' (Vimeo)
• Clare Wright:
  • Looking for her presence (Melbourne Writers Festival)
  • Clare Wright discusses her Stella Prize for her book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka with Booktopia's John Purcell (Booktopia TV)
  • Clare Wright on the forgotten history of the women of Eureka and beyond (MADE Ballarat)
  • Women's right to vote in SA (Utopia Girls)
  • Epic Fail: Clare Wright
  • Clare Wright on her book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation 2014 Inspiring Philanthropy Celebration)
  • What is the future of ANZAC Day? (Melbourne Conversations)
  • Women and work – who pays? (Melbourne Conversations)
  • Gender: Does it matter nowadays? (The Monthly Video)
  • The Stella Prize: One year on (Wheeler Centre)
  • Must-read histories (Wheeler Centre)
  • Forgotten rebels (Wheeler Centre)
  • Lola Montez 19^th century radical (Culture Victoria)