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Jim Allen

Published by Sydney University Press, 2007
ISBN 9781920898878
Paper: Perfect bound

RRP $49.95

In 1966 Jim Allen undertook the first professional archaeological excavation of a European site in Australia, investigating the 1840s military settlement of Victoria, established at Port Essington. explored the history and archaeology of the short-lived settlement, tackling for the first time many of the themes which continue to underlie historical archaeological research - isolation, the responses of poorly equipped and inexperienced colonists, material culture and trade networks, the impact of inept government bureaucracies, disease and health, and relations with the Indigenous population.   Allen's main theoretical thrust concerned the problems of integrating written and archaeological data, which remains a central issue in the discipline of historical archaeology in Australasia.  

Recognised for 40 years as a pivotal study in Australian historical and contact archaeology, ASHA's publication of Port Essington makes this important and still highly relevant work widely available for the first time. The volume is published complete with the original data tables and graphs and is lavishly illustrated, with a retrospective by Jim Allen (now Emeritus Professor in the School of Historical & European Studies in La Trobe University). Port Essington will appeal as a reference book to both students and professional archaeologists.

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