Of the Hut I Builded : The Archaeology of Australia’s History

AUSTRALIANA

• xvi, 176, : ill. ; 26 cm. #130124 First Edition

• Archaeological evidence of pre-colonial contact especially Macassans and trepang processing activities.

• 1. ‘There are no traces now’: the material heritage of Australian history
• 2. ‘They came by sea’: the historical archaeology of precolonial contact
• 3. The birth of a nation: seeking the remains of early Sydney
• 4. ‘It didn’t always work’: investigating the sites of failed settlements
• 5. The convict contribution: vestiges of the penal system
• 6. ‘I built a little homestead’: extracting history from houses
• 7. ‘I cleared the land and fenced it’: reading the rural landscape
• 8. ‘Out of the ground came wealth’: the archaeological evidence for mining
• 9. Made in Australia: information from industrial relics
• 10. ‘The glad bright days have vanished’: the potential of Australian historical archaeology