Current News - ASHA Inc.

December 2011 Newsletter Now Available

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -1100

The latest ASHA newsletter Vol 41 (4) - December 2011 is now available for downloading.

A real bumper issue at 56 pages!

Many thanks to Rick and all the contributors, including some of our new state representatives. Well done!

We would encourage everyone who have been undertaking any projects to submit any content for the next newsletter to Rick before February 15.

New ASHA postbox mailing address

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:11:54 -1100

New ASHA Postbox Mailing Address

ASHA has had to move out of its old postbox at the University of Sydney as this service is closing down.

Our new mailing address will be:

PO Box 2497

North Parramatta

NSW 1750

Please update this address in your records.

WE apologise for any inconvenience.

AGM Documents Now Available Online

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -1100

AGM Documents Now Available Online

The 2011 annual reports from the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer have been uploaded to the web site, along with the 2011 AGM Agenda.

These are all available at the Current Members - Society Documents Page.

ASHA Journals 1-23 now available on JStor

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:49:09 -1100

After months of work by Peter Davies, the ASHA Jounal Australian Historical Archaeology (Volumes 1- 23) are now available for downloading at JStor. JStor is a fully searchable online database of digitised social science journals.

This initiative provides ASHA a much wider exposure within the social science research community.

Well done Peter for all the hard work, and thanks also to Martin Gibbs for initiating the project.

. Download ASHA Journals are available from the JStor website

Australasian Historical Archaeology is now available on JSTOR

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -1100

Australasian Historical Archaeology is now available in the JSTOR archive as part of the Arts & Sciences IX Collection.

After years of hard work and organisation, the ASHA Journal Australasian Historical Archaeology is now available on JSTOR web site at http://www.jstor.org

The ASHA archive available on JSTOR currently extends from vol 1 to vol 23 (2005), with more journals to be added over time. Current journals from the last five years will only be available on the Members Pages of the ASHA web site.

Listing of ASHA Journals on JSTOR will lead to greater awareness of the society in the international archaeological community.

The project was initiated by Martin Gibbs, but the project has been organised by Peter Davies who undertook the massive job of organising the practicalities of the data transferral and associated administration. Many thanks go to Peter and Martin for all their hard work in organising this wonderful resource.

New Book: The Shore Whalers of Western Australia

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -1100

New Book Released!

Martin Gibbs, The Shore Whalers of Western Australia: Historical Archaeology of a Maritime Frontier. Studies in Australasian Historical Archaeology 2. vi, 165 pages, illustrated. Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology and Sydney University Press, 2010. ISBN
9781920899622 (pbk). AUD $40.00 plus 5.00 p+p (special pre-publication price).

Every winter between 1836 to 1879 small wooden boats left the bays of southwest Western Australia to hunt for migrating Humpback and Right whales. In the early years of European settlement these small shore whaling parties and the whale oil they produced were an important part of the colonial economy, yet over time their significance diminished until they virtually vanished from the documentary record.

'The Shore Whalers of Western Australia' uses archival research and archaeological evidence to examine the history and operation of this almost forgotten industry on the remote maritime frontier of the British Empire, and the role of the whalers in the history of early contact between Europeans and Aboriginal people.