ARCH8810 Ethnoarchaeology in Aboriginal Australia Field School B

2012

4.5

1 x 2-week field trip per semester

1 Admission into GCCHM-Graduate Certificate in Cultural Heritage Management
1a Admission into GDPCHM-Graduate Diploma in Cultural Heritage Management
1b Admission into MCHM-Master of Cultural Heritage Management
1c Admission into GCARCH-Graduate Certificate in Archaeology
1d Admission into GDPARCH-Graduate Diploma in Archaeology
1e Admission into MARCH-Master of Archaeology
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a or 1b or 1c or 1d or 1e))

This topic is designed for students who have already undertaken a field work topic in ethnoarchaeology. Students will be required to employ previously acquired skills to an advanced level, including those related to rock art recording, site recording, artefact recording, collecting oral histories, and ethical interactions with Indigenous groups.

In this topic students will work under the guidance of Indigenous elders, within a number of areas of ethnoarchaeological enquiry, including Aboriginal people in their environment, Aboriginal social systems, art, contact and landscape.

Fees will be charged to cover such things as transport, accommodation and food based on the location of the field school.

Students should consult the topic coordinator before enrolling.

This topic aims to:

• consolidate for students the practical and personal skills necessary to conducting field research with Indigenous peoples

• broaden students' awareness of the political and ethical dimensions of ethnoarchaeology

• give students extended practical experience in working with Indigenous communities

• give students a greater understanding of Aboriginal relationships to land

• help students to develop recording skills used in Indigenous fieldwork, such as site recording, rock art recording, stone artefact recording, archival research, collecting oral histories, contact site recording and creating plans, maps and other records

On completion of this topic students will be able to:

• undertake ethical archaeological fieldwork with Indigenous communities

• incorporate a broad range of Aboriginal understandings of land into their own fieldwork and interpretation

• demonstrate an extended understanding of the range of recording processes necessary on an archaeological field project

• demonstrate a suite of advanced recording skills used in the fieldwork process