Thursday 10 Dec

Friday 11 Dec

Saturday 12 Dec

Sunday 13 Dec

Monday 14 Dec

Registration open

Registration open

Registration open

Registration open

Official welcome

ca 9.00 -10.30

Intro to Geophysics

Willandra Session

Arch to excite and inspire

General Session

Old Problems, New Shit

Coasts & Islands

Real Dirt Game

Morning Tea

ca 11.00 - 12.30

Lithics Session

Pleistocene Archaeology

Lunch

ca 1.30 - 3.00

Registration Open; Exhibition open; Bar open

Google Earth

Old Guard Interviews

Palaeoecology

Geophysics

Engaged Arch

Applying Digital....

Afternoon Tea

ca 3.30 - 5.00

Archaeology and Anthropology

Geoff Bailey

5.30 - 6.30

Registration Desk Open; Welcome Drinks and BBQ; Official Exhibition Opening

AAA AGM

AAACAI AGM

The Australian Research Council: Policy, Programs, Processes, Prospects

After 6 events

Bar open; Roast Dinner; Poster Session

Bar open; Asian Dinner; Photography session; Wine tasting

Free Evening

Conference dinner

Friday 11 December 2009

8.40 - 9.10

Welcome to Country

Opening Speeches

9.10 - 9.30

Willandra opening

Traces in the sand: landscape evolution and human history in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area

9.30 - 9.50

Grun and Stern

A new generation of archaeological and geological research in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area: a introduction to the ARC-Linkage Project, the Environmental Evolution of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area

9.50 - 10.10

Kelly et al

A preliminary chronological framework for the Lake Mulurulu lunette

10.10 - 10.30

Moffat et al

Detailed geoarchaeological investigations of the northern Mungo lunette

10.30 - 11

Morning Tea

11.00 - 11.20

Barrows et al

Towards a chronologic framework for human response to environmental change at Lake Mungo

11.20 - 11.50

Pappin

Working on country in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area

11.50 - 12.10

Stern

Shifting sands: the empirical structure of the Mungo archaeological record and its implications for landscape archaeology

12.10 - 12.30

Tumney

A GIS perspective on the Mungo lunette surface material

12.30 - 1.30

Lunch

1.30 - 1.50

Kurpiel

Notched artefacts from the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area

1.50 - 2.10

Kibble

The study of faunal assemblages from open sites in the Willandra Lakes: a case study from locality 969660

2.10 - 2.30

Johnston

Tur-rat, kunpali and pirlatya: Hare wallabies, fish and mussels. Recent investigations concerning the archaeology of food, Willandra Lakes region

2.30 - 3.00

Afternoon Tea

3.00 - 3.20

Draper and Sutherland

Archaeology and Anthropology: An Introduction

Archaeology and Anthropology

3.20 - 3.40

Panel Discussion with Examples

3.40 - 4.00

Flood

From Moth Hunters to Mungo: Indigenous insights into recent and pre-historic archaeology

4.00 - 4.20

Higgs

Past and Present: Art of the Canning Stock Route

4.20 - 4.40

Sutton

The Logic of Wik Camping, Cape York Peninsula

4.40 - 5.00

Roberts

Observations of a Multi-disciplinary Researcher Working in Native Title

5.00 - 5.20

Miles

Could Stanner have Wagered his Hat? Did Yao Ancestors (1966-69) Maintain Inherited Rockeries for Poppy Production on Little Elephant‘s Peak in Northern Thailand?

Saturday 12 December 09

Matthew Flinders Lecture Theatre

North Lecture Theatre 3

8.50 - 9.10

Mulvaney

Digging at Fromm's Landing Half a Century Ago

Archaeology to excite and inspire

9.10 - 9.30

Flood

Blank on the archaeological map - five decades of exploration and discovery in Australia

9.30 - 9.50

Allen

The Romance of the North: Adventures in the archaeology of western Arnhem Land.

9.50 - 10.10

Golson

Reflections of an Old Guard

10.10 - 10.30

Brockwell

‘Dead Men and Dreamings': Some Reflections on An-barra Archaeology

10.30 - 11.00

Morning Tea

10.30 - 11.00

Morning Tea

11.00 - 11.20

Denham

Fruits, nuts and vegetables: Archaeological dissonance in Sahul

11.00 - 11.20

Hill

The Nature and Distribution of Stone Artefacts in Northwest Victoria

Lithics

11.20 - 11.50

Spriggs and Bedford

"It found us, we didn't find it": how an archaeological discovery in Vanuatu has changed the game in Pacific archaeology

11.20 - 11.50

Jenkins and Reid

Environmental Influence on the Location of Silcrete Stone Tool Reduction Sites, Greenhills Road, Pakenham

11.50 - 12.10

Carter

Mr Duniam and his Mummy

11.50 - 12.10

Herries et al

Using archaeomagnetism to identify heat treatment and sourcing of silcrete stone tools: results from experimental studies and the Middle Stone Age of South Africa

12.10 - 12.30

Brown

Buggering around in the backyard: creating attachment to place through archaeology and materiality

12.10 - 12.30

Fordyce and Patterson

Recent Investigations at Karara, Western Australia and Future Directions for a Regional Archaeology

12.30 - 12.50

Burke and Gorman

The retreat from the past:  "now" archaeologies and contemporary theory

12.30 - 12.50

12.50 - 2.00

Lunch

12.50 - 2.00

Lunch

2.00 - 2.15

Santos

OpenHeritage Australia

Google Earth, Open Source and other Emerging Spatial Technologies:
Innovation and Application in Archaeology

2.00 - 2.15

Old Guard Interviews Session: Convened by Claire Smith

2.15 - 2.30

Wilson

Serving with Google Maps

2.15 - 2.30

2.30 - 2.45

UWA Computer Science and Systems Engineering Students

Building Software for Archaeology

2.30 - 2.45

2.45 - 3.00

Henderson

Exploring the Inaccessible: A case study using Google Earth

2.45 - 3.00

3.00 - 3.15

Smith

Accessible GIS: Archaeological Site Models in Google Earth

3.00 - 3.15

3.15 - 3.30

Mallie

Cultural Site Management Systems: Technology for recording and managing archaeological sites

3.15 - 3.30

3.30 - 4.00

Afternoon Tea

3.30 - 4.00

4.00 - 4.15

Cameron

Rio Tinto Coal Australia's Development and Use of Innovative GIS/GPS Technologies and Methodologies as Cultural Heritage Management Tools in the Coal Mining Sector

4.00 - 4.15

4.15-4.30

McDonald

Old Dog, New Tricks. Using GIS in Cultural Heritage Management

4.15-4.30

4.30 - 4.50

Coller

SahulTime and TemporalEarth: A step towards Digital Earth?

4.30 - 4.50

4.50 - 5.10

Steyne

Investigating the Submerged Post-Glacial Landscapes of Port Phillip Bay

4.50 - 5.10

5.10 - 5.30

Discussion

5.10 - 5.30

5.30 - 6.30

AAA AGM

6.30 - 7.30

Wine Tasting; Photograph Session

Sunday 13 December 09

Matthew Flinders Lecture Theatre

North Lecture Theatre 3

9.10 - 9.30

Prideaux

The Archaeological Implications of Advances in Construction Methodologies: How Linear Trenchless Construction can Reduce the Construction Impact on Archaeological Sites

General Session: Offerings from Old and New Guard Researchers

9.10 - 9.30

Ross

Defining heritage - reality and practice challenge the narrow confines of the law: a case study of heritage ‘boundaries' at the Gummingurru stone arrangement site

"Old problems new shit" or "Old paradigms, new applications": the application of cultural heritage legislation in modern cultural heritage situations

9.30 - 9.50

MacKenzie

Upping the Anti: The Logistics of Bringing a Large-Scale Archaeological Excavation in Line with the Health and Safety Systems of the Mining Industry

9.30 - 9.50

Godwin

It's my party: Aboriginal Parties in Queensland, ILUAs, the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act and the Federal Court

9.50 - 10.10

Fyfe and Bolton

Gender, Mobility and Technology: Interpreting Spatial Distributions of Arrow and String Bag Characteristics in the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea

9.50 - 10.10

Greenwood

A town planner's view on Queensland's cultural heritage legislation

10.10 - 10.30

Dortch et al

Understanding Past Noongar Land Management: Further Research in the Pallinup Catchment, South-Coastal Western Australia

10.10 - 10.30

Moody

The Developer's Golden Ticket?  A case study in cultural heritage management in Western Sydney under Part 3A of the NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

10.30 - 11

Morning Tea

10.30 - 11

Morning Tea

11.00 - 11.20

Litster

The Movement of People from Borneo to Madagascar - Was There Contact in the Maldives?

11.00 - 11.20

Farquharson

Assessing the Condition of Heritage Values:  a response to shifting implementation of the EPBC Act

11.20 - 11.50

Webb

Rock Art of the Cue Region: Walga Rock in Context

11.20 - 11.50

Winter

Ngarinyin cultural transmission and ‘Caring for our Country'

11.50 - 12.10

Rossi

Recent Research at Mulka's Cave, an Aboriginal Rock Art Site in SW Australia: The Implications of the Erosional Effects of Cultural Tourism

11.50 - 12.10

Smalldon

Auditing cultural heritage: a second opinion can count

12.10 - 12.30

Wade and Wallis

Archaeological Investigations of Rock Art at Middle Park Station, Northwest Queensland

12.10 - 12.30

Goulding et al

The new Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006: a Registered Aboriginal Party's perspective

12.30 - 1.30

Lunch

12.30 - 1.30

Lunch

1.30 - 1.50

Jones

Ground stone tools from Shangshan site, south China: integrating microresidue and use-wear studies in the reconstruction of early Holocene Chinese subsistence practices

Palaeoecology and its Role in Archaeology: Current Research and Future Directions

1.30 - 1.50

Moffat et al

Magnetism and Prehistory in Australia: Possibilities and Problems

Seeing Beneath the Soil: The Possibilities of Archaeological Geophysics in Australia

1.50 - 2.10

Bestel

Residue Analysis of Peiligang-aged (8500-7000BP) Stone Sickles from Central China

1.50 - 2.10

Fogel

Special Cases In Near Surface Geophysical Investigation: Examples Of 2D, Quasi-3D, And True-3D Resistivity Imaging For Mapping Archaeological Remains

2.10 - 2.30

Garvey et al

The Big Game Hunters?: Zooarchaeological Analysis from the Middle Palaeolithic of Longyadong Cave, Luonan Basin, China

2.10 - 2.30

Lowe

Geophysical Anomaly Testing with Down-hole Magnetic Susceptibility

2.30 - 2.50

Montero et al

Diet and Health Status at Chinikiha, Chiapas, Mexico: Some Preliminary Results

2.30 - 2.50

Nobes

Sand, Silt, Clay: The Effect of Grain Size on the Geophysical Responses of Indigenous Burial Sites

2.50 - 3.20

Afternoon Tea

2.50 - 3.20

Afternoon Tea

3.20 - 3.40

Filios

On Common sense: Dead kangaroos, game cameras and the construction of uniquely Australian taphonomic models

3.20 - 3.40

Nobes and Wallace

Geophysical Imaging of an Early 19^th Century Colonial Defensive Blockhouse

3.40 - 4.00

Cochrane et al

Emu butchery and economic utility: implications for understanding Australian zooarchaeology and megafaunal extinctions

3.40 - 4.00

Steyne

Managing shipwrecks you can't see: geophysics and historic shipwreck sites

4.00 - 4.20

Martin

Mounds - A Palaeoecological ‘Treasure-Chest'

4.00 - 4.20

Toft

Efficient, large-scale archaeological prospection using a true 3D GPR array system

4.20 - 4.40

Westaway et al

Archaeological and palaeoecological investigations of a probable late Pleistocene assemblage from Nerang, South East Queensland

4.20 - 4.40

4.45 - 5.15

Claire Smith - The Australian Research Council: Policy, Programs, Processes, Prospects

Monday 14 December

Matthew Flinders Lecture Theatre

North Lecture Theatre 3

8.50 - 9.10

McKay et al

Issues of archaeological significance assessment in the eastern Pilbara: some preliminary thoughts

The Real Dirt Game: Archaeology and Mining in the Pilbara

9.10 - 9.30

Wilson

Change and continuity in Ngarrindjeri Ruwe (Country): Understanding riverine life ways in the Lower Murray

The Archaeology of Australasian Coasts and Islands

9.10 - 9.30

Slack and Stevens

 An evolutionary approach to flaked stone artefact technology in the inland Pilbara

9.30 - 9.50

St George et al

Long Point (to be advised)

9.30 - 9.50

Cropper and Law

The Pleistocene Archaeological Record at Hope Downs, Western Australia

9.50 - 10.10

Disspain et al

Using archaeological otoliths to determine palaeoenvironmental change and Ngarrindjeri resource use in the Coorong , South Australia

9.50 - 10.10

Law and Cropper

The Holocene Archaeological Record at Hope Downs, Western Australia

10.10 - 10.30

Cooper and Mattner

Results of archaeological survey of offshore islands off the Bonaparte Archipelago, NW Kimberley, Western Australia

10.10 - 10.30

Fullagar et al

Aboriginal tool stone of the central Hamersley Range, Pilbara, northwestern Australia

10.30 - 11

Morning Tea

10.30 - 11.00

Morning Tea

11.00 - 11.20

Brockwell et al

Climate change records from North Australian cultural midden deposits: evidence from a pilot study of oxygen isotopes in mollusc shells

11.00 - 11.20

Langley

Behavioural Modernity in Sahul's Pleistocene Archaeological Record: Taphonomy, Archaeological Sampling and Previous Hypotheses

New Data and Reinterpretations of Pleistocene Australia

11.20 - 11.50

Wright

What happens when a landbridge becomes a group of islands?

11.20 - 11.50

Wallis et al

Gledswood 1 Shelter: initial radiocarbon dates from a Pleistocene aged rockshelter site in northwest Queensland

11.50 - 12.10

Alexander

Defining the criteria for describing and classifying shell mounds

11.50 - 12.10

Veth et al

Excavations at Parnkupirti, Lake Gregory, Great Sandy Desert:  OSL Dates for Occupation before the Last Glacial Maximum

12.10 - 12.30

Morrison

Specialised sites or taphonomic bias? a review of factors influencing the preservation of non-molluscan faunal remains in shell mound deposits in northern Australia

12.10 - 12.30

Webb

Dating the initial colonisation of Sahul: why there is a discrepancy between 14C and TL, OSL, ESR, AAR and U-series and why it should matter to the ‘New Guard'

12.30 - 12.50

Rosendahl et al

‘The way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea': The Sandalwood River Archaeological Project, Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria

12.30 - 12.50

Veth et al behavioural

The Role of Information Exchange in the Colonisation of Sahul

12.50 - 1.50

Lunch

12.50 - 1.50

Lunch

1.50 - 2.10

Hemming et al

Negotiating the Ngarrindjeri Heritage Program and Closing the Gap

Engaged Archaeology, Consultancies and Management Planning: Research Directions

1.50 - 2.10

Applying Digital and Mobile Technologies for In Situ Heritage and Tourism Management

2.10 - 2.30

Wilson et al

‘Documenting Ourselves': The use of film in articulating the complexities of repatriation and reburial in Ngarrindjeri Ruwe

2.10 - 2.30

2.30 - 2.50

Wiltshire and NLPA

Connection and Continuation - Ngarrindjeri Caring for Country management planning within the Lower Lakes, South Australia

2.30 - 2.50

2.50 - 3.10

Winton and Brown

All aboard: Longer term cultural heritage research and management with the Wajarri of the Weld Range

2.50 - 3.10

3.10 - 3.40

Afternoon Tea

3.40 - 5.00

Geoff Bailey Plenary Session