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The Artefact Archive

Purchase the back-catalogue of The Artefact (1965-2006: up to & including Volume 29) on a single DVD. Every article, report, editorial, letter, book review, etc, is presented in searchable, full-text Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The DVD includes instructions, and links to the Adobe Reader software for viewing and searching the archive. system requirements for the DVD are a computer with Windows 2000/XP or Macintosh OSX v10.2.2 and above, and a DVD-ROM drive.

The Artefact Archive 1965-2006 DVD is available for a cost of AU$20 within Australia and AUD$30 for overseas destinations (includes postage and handling).

To order please contact arcsocvic@yahoo.com.au


Back copies of The Artefact

Back copies of the Artefact are available for purchase. Some volumes are not now available and others, where there are only a few copies left, can only be obtained as part of a set.

Costs in Australian dollars are as follows:
Individual volumes: price on inquiry
Set of all available issues $200 plus postage

Artefact issues available when individual issues are purchased:
Volumes 10 to 22

Artefact issues available when purchased as a set:
Volumes 10 to 22
Volume 9 (very limited number available)
Volume 8 (No 3 – 4)
Volume 7 (No 3 – 4)
Volume 6 (No 1 – 2 & No 3 – 4)
Volume 5 (No 1 – 2)
Volume 4 (No 1 – 2)
Volume 2 (No 2)

INDEX TO VOLUMES 1 TO 22

Volume 22 1999

  • D M Welch Fossilised human footprints on the coast of north western Australia
  • M J Rowland Holocene environmental variability; have its impacts been underestimated in Australian pre-history?
  • Robert G Bednarik The speleothem medium of finger fluting and its isotopic geochemistry.
  • N Wolski & T H Loy On the invisibility of contact residue analyses on Aboriginal glass artifacts from Western Australia.

Volume 21 1998 Alexander Gallus Memorial Issue

  • J Mulvaney Dr Gallus & Australian Archaeology
  • G Presland A S Gallus and the Archaeological society of Victoria
  • P Veth, P Hiscock, S O’Connor & M Spriggs Gallus on the crossroads; diffusionist models for Asian artefact `traditions’ in Australia and the last hurrah for cultural evolutionism.
  • M Munro The stone artefact assemblage from Keilor
  • J Tunn Pleistocene landscapes of Brimbank Park, Keilor, Victoria.
  • C F M Bird & D Frankel Pleistocene & Earl Holocene archaeology in Victoria. A view from Gariwerd.
  • I J McNiven Aboriginal settlement of the saline lake and volcanic landscapes of Corangamite Basin, western Victoria.
  • K Sharpe, M Lacombe & H Fawbery An externalism in order to communicate.
  • H Lourandos & B David Comparing long term archaeological and environmental trends; north Queensland, arid and semi-arid Australia.

Volume 20 1997

  • P B Clarkson Geoglyphs in the Americas.
  • R G Bednarik The origins of navigation and language
  • B David, H Walt, H Lourandos, M Rowe, J Brayer & C Tuniz Ordering the rock paintings of the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone (Australia) for AMS dating

Book Review

  • H Lourandos Continent of hunter-gatherers: new perspectives in Australian pre-history

Miscellanea

Volume 19 1996

  • M C S Godfrey et al From time to time: Radiocarbon information on archaeological sites held by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria.
  • C J Davey The origins of Victorian mining technology, 1851-1900
  • R G Bednarik The cupules on Chief’s Rock, Auditorium Cave, Bhimbetka.
  • D Welch Simple human figures in Kimberley rock art, Western Australia

Volume 18 1995

  • Tang Hui-Sheng & J M Hare Lithic industries of the Quinghai-Tibetan Plateau
  • C F M Bird Mount Talbot 1: a rock shelter in southern Wimmera, Victoria.
  • C Clarkson & B David The antiquity of blades & points revisited
  • D Frankel & P C Edwards Archaeology asunder Downunder
  • N Stern The ‘blue tuff’ locality at Koobi Fora in northern Kenya
  • P C Edwards The formation of large sites and their interpretation.
  • J M Webb Abandonment processes and curate/discard strategies, Cyprus
  • A B Knapf & I Johnson The Sydney Cyprus Survey Project
  • J Powell Fishy business; studies of fishing in the prehistoric Aegean

Book review

  • J Flood Archaeology of the Dreamtime: the story of prehistoric Australia and its people.
  • P Bahn (ed) Collins Dictionary of Archaeology
  • Antonio Sagona (ed) Bruising the red earth: ochre mining and ritual in Aboriginal Tasmania Miscellanea

Volume 17 1994

  • J Flood & B David Traditional systems of encoding meaning in Wardaman rock art, Northern territory, Australia
  • A J Ardito Reducing the effects of heavy equipment compaction A. K. O’Gower Not just another diversity index
  • R G Bednarik Malangine & Koolangine Caves, South Australia
  • R G Bednarik & J F Evans The fifth Australian Archaeometry conference

Book Review

  • P Hiscock & S Mitchell Stone artefact quarries & reduction sites in Australia: towards a type profile
  • T P Hutchinson Version 2 (history & archaeology) of essentials of statistical methods

Miscellanea

Volume 16 1993 Selected papers of the first AASV Symposium on Archaeological Dating

  • C Chippindale Dating & Australian Archaeology
  • V Morgan Ice core dating and climatic records A. Peter Kershaw Palynology, biostratigraphy & human impact.
  • C V Murray Wallace A review of the application of the amino acid racemisation reaction to archaeological dating.
  • D Dragovich Varnish cation ratios and relative rock art dating
  • R G Bednarik The calibrated dating of petroglyphs
  • A Watchman The use of laser technology in rock art dating.
  • T H Loy On the dating of prehistoric organic residues.

Abstracts of papers presented but not included in this volume

Book review

  • Alberto Rex Gonzalez Las placas metalicas de los Andes del sur

Volume 15 1992

  • P Faulstich Massaging the earth: Pleistocene finger flutings and the archaeology of experience.
  • R G Bednarik Early subterranean chert mining
  • B David, R Bird, R Fullager & L Little Glassy obsidian artifacts from north Queensland
  • B Downey & D Frankel Radiocarbon and thermoluminescent dating of a central Murray mound.

Miscellanea

Volume 14 1991

  • B M J Huchet The nature of analogies in Australian archaeology
  • C Smith Context, contact &site formation processes
  • B David & J Stanisic Land snails in Australian archaeology
  • R G Bednarik & Li Fushun Rock art dating in China

Miscellanea

Volume 13 1989-90

  • M G Plew Use wear analysis of stone knives from the Western Desert, Australia
  • S Jamieson Experiments in the manufacture of ancient Near Eastern pottery
  • F Weaver Goanna Bay excavation, Top Lake, Mallacoota Inlet, north-eastern Victoria

Volume 12 1987-1988 cave art of Western Australia

  • M P Pickering Food for thought: an alternative to Cannibalism in the Neolithic

Reviews

  • J D Richards & N S Ryan Data processing in Archaeology
  • A Whittle The prehistory of Neolithic Europe

Volume 11 December 1986

  • W Beck & A McConnell The practice of archaeology in Victoria :a proposal for guidelines
  • G Presland One hundred and fifty years of Aboriginal studies in Victoria

Reviews

  • P J F Coutts Coastal archaeology in south eastern Victoria
  • J D Light & H Unglik A Frontier for trade blacksmith shop 1796-1812

Volume 10 July 1985

  • B Gott Plants mentioned in Dawson’s Australian Aborigines
  • P Sillitoe Decorating to communicate

Reviews

  • P Philps The prehistory of Europe

Volume 9 December 1984

  • Obituary William Culican
  • K Kefous Late Pleistocene megafauna at Lake Victoria, Central Murray, evidence and implications of some recent fossil finds
  • D Frankel & R Vanderwal A note on prehistoric research in the Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea
  • D Gaughwin Women in the food quest in Western Victoria
  • A Rainey A quartzite assemblage from the Tully District, Queensland

Volume 8(3-4) June 1984

  • H Campbell & M Prokopec Antiquity of tooth avulsion in Australia
  • P Sillitoe Salt users of the Papua New Guinea Highlands
  • J Stockton Archaeology and maps in Tasmania: A review
  • R Bednarik On the nature of psychograms.
  • G D Aslin & R G Bednarik Karake Cave – A preliminary report

Volume 8 (1-2) June 1983

  • J V S Megaw Sandor Gallus-Archaeologist in two hemispheres
  • A Gallus Excavations at Keilor, Victoria Report No 3
  • D Gillieson Geoarchaeological applications of Scanning Electron Microscopy ; some Australian examples
  • M C S Godfrey Historical sources as aids to archaeological interpretation, examples from Discovery Bay, Victoria

Book Reviews

  • B Meehan Shell Bed to Shell Midden

Volume 7 (3-4) December 1982

  • M Stephen The dynamism of tradition
  • P Sillitoe The lithic technology of a Papua New Guinea Highland people
  • N Barnard A Yi-ewer of Middle Chou style in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

Book Reviews

  • P Coutts Readings in Victorian prehistory, Vol 1 Archaeological theory & practice
  • W Bray & D Trump The Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology

Volume 7 (1-2) not available

Volume 6 (3&4) December 1982

  • N M Wallace The anthropologist’s role in Land Right’s claim
  • R G Kimber Some thoughts on stone arrangements

Book Reviews

  • D Johansonm & A M Edey Lucy The beginnings of humankind
  • R Leakey & R Lewin People of the lake. Man, his origins, nature & future

Volume 6 (1&2) July 1981

  • E D Stockton Reflections around the campfire
  • P G Ladd The relevance of palynolgy to archaeology in Australia
  • K Kefous Identification & analysis of lacustrine and riverside fauna from inland sites in southeastern Australia
  • D R Horton Early thought on early man in Australia
  • N Walters Why the Tasmanians stopped eating fish
  • I M Stuart Ethnohistory in the Otway Ranges
  • E D Stockton Recent dates for large tool assemblages on the central coast NSW
  • F S Colliver The Giligulgul an aboriginal tool?

Book Review

  • J Battersby Cultural policy in Australia

Volume 5 (3 & 4) December 1980

  • N M Wallace Western Desert rock and stone arrangements
  • D Tugby & E Tugby The Reverend John Matthew and Painted Rock: perception and cognition in the recording and reproduction of an Aboriginal rock painting in the Grampians, Victoria
  • L Healey & J Stockton Problems and potentials of archaeological evidence for prehistoric biophysical description in the Derwent Estuary
  • W C Ferguson Fossiliferous chert in Southwestern Australia after the Holocene transgression: a behavioural hypothesis

Book Reviews

  • A Sherratt The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology
  • M F Christie Aborigines in Colonial Victoria 1835-86
  • J Clegg Notes towards Mathesis Art
  • G Barrett Bellinghausen: a visit to New Zealand, 1820
  • P Stanbury 10,000 years of Sydney Life: a guide to archaeological discovery

Volume 5 (1 & 2) July 1980

  • J Kaminga A functional investigation of Australian microliths
  • G Presland Continuity in Indonesian lithic tradition
  • R G Bednarik The potential of rock patination analysis in Australian archaeology-Part 2
  • R G Kimber Desecration of Aboriginal sites and sacred objects in central Australia
  • M Pickering A technique of bone tool manufacture: from photographs in the Donald P Thomson Collection, National Museum of Victoria.

Book Review

  • J S Watson, V Drew & J D Cole Prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
  • D Frankel Archaeologists at work: studies on Halaf pottery.

Volume 4 (3 & 4) not available

Volume 4 (1 & 2) June 1979

  • H Allen Left out in the cold: why the Tasmanians stopped eating fish.
  • D Horton The great megafaunal extinction debate: 1879-1979
  • C Hunt Fijian pottery and the manufacture of cooking pots on Kadiavu Island.
  • C Hunt A flaked stone industry from Fiji
  • A Ritchie The Talgai Skull Story and the use – or misuse – of archives.
  • M E Simmons & S Simmons Silcrete: a classification for flaked stone artefact assemblages.
  • I M Sutayasa Prehistory in West Java, Indonesia
  • Book Reviews
  • I Bernal The Olmec World K-c Chang Early Chinese civilization
  • J Winslow The Melanesian environment

Volume 3 No 4 December 1978

  • Talgai Cranium Number E. D. Gill Age and origin of the Talgai Cranium from the Darling Downs of Queensland, Australia
  • Langham Talgai and Piltdown – the common context.

Volume 3 No 3 September 1978

Megafauna Issue No 2

  • J Balme An apparent association of artifacts and extinct fauna at Devil’s Lair, Western Australia
  • M L McIntyre & J H Hope Procoptodon fossils from the Willandra Lakes, Western New South Wales.
  • J H J Leach Discovery of an artefact associated with megafauna at Lake Ondit in Western Victoria
  • A Goede, P Murray & R Harmon Pleistocene man and megafauna in Tasmania: dated evidence from cave sites.
  • J Mulvaney William Dampier, ethnography and elf-stones

Book Review

  • D Lewis From Maui to Cook: the discovery and settlement of the Pacific

Volume 3 No 2 June 1978

Megafauna Issue No 1

  • D C Witter Late Pleistocene extinctions: a global perspective
  • E D Gill Palaeoecological changes in Victoria and Bass Strait as a backdrop for the marsupial, megafauna and Aboriginal colonisation
  • P F Murray Australian megamammals: restorations of some Late Pleistocene fossil marsupial and a monotreme
  • K Errey & T Flannery The neglected megafaunal sites of the Colongulac region, Western Victoria

Book review

  • J Mitchell A little history of Astro-archaeology – stages in the transformation of a heresy

Volume 3 No 1 March 1978

  • J Carter S R Mitchell and the study of archaeology in Victoria
  • W Orchiston et al Problems in artefact identification: an edge ground axe from the Dry Creek archaeological site near Keilor

Book Reviews

  • R L Kirk & A G Thorne The origins of the Australians
  • K R Howe The Loyalty Islands: a history of culture contacts 1840-1900

Supplement

  • J Stevens et al An Egyptian mummy of the First Intermediate Period in the Museum of Victoria

Volume 2 No 4 December 1977

  • J Clegg A Sausserian model of prehistoric art
  • R L Vanderwal The Shag Bay rockshelter, Tasmania
  • D Wayne Orchiston Petrological studies in South Island, New Zealand prehistory 2. Maori use of white limestone
  • G Presland Aboriginal local groups and seasonal exploitation in southwestern Victoria
  • E D Stockton Pre-microlithic industries in south-east Australia

Book Reviews

  • B Wood The evolution of Early Man
  • R S Miller Misi Gete: John Geddie, pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides

Volume 2 No 3 September 1977

  • D W Orchiston, R N Miller & R C Glenie A history of nineteenth century investigations at the Lancefield megafaunal site
  • M Orbell The Maori tradition of Kupe: a religious interpretation
  • F P Dickson Identification of buried middens by soil samples

Book Reviews

  • D & R Whitehouse Archaeological Atlas of the world

Volume 2 No 2 June 1977

  • I McBryde Ethnographic collections of Governor LaTrobe now in the hands of the Muse’ d’Ethnographie de Neuchatel, Switzerland
  • W Davis & F E Treloar The application of racemisation dating in archaeology: a critical review

Volume 2 No 1 March 1977

  • E D Gill Constraints imposed by the Earth Sciences on the interpretation of the Warrnambool ‘Mahogany Ship’ wreck site
  • L West Aboriginal Man at Kow Swamp, northern Victoria: the problem of locating the burial site of the KSI skeleton

Book Reviews

  • J Mellaart The Neolithic of the Near East
  • S Purushottam Neolithic cultures of western Asia

Volume 1 No 2 June 1976

  • E E Joyce & J R Anderson Late quaternary geology and environment at the Dry Creek archaeological sites near Keilor in Victoria, Australia
  • A Gallus The Middle and early Upper Pleistocene stone industries at the Dry Creek archaeological sites near Keilor, Australia

Volume 1 No 1 March 1976

  • L C Horrocks A study in intercultural conflicts: the Du Fresne Massacre at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand 1772
  • E D Gill The Aborigines and coastal processes in Western Victoria, Australia
  • P J F Coutts et al The Mound People of Western Victoria: A preliminary statement