Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Cultural Heritage Series

Torres Strait archaeology and material culture
Edited by Ian J. McNiven & Michael Quinnell
Volume 3, Part 1 (Volume 3 is complete in one part; there is no Volume 3, Part 2)
21 June 2006

Return to Memoirs Back Issues

The articles of the Memoirs are supplied as PDFs. Please click on their titles to download.
To view PDFs you require the free Adobe Acrobat® Reader*.

* The content found by using this link is not created, controlled or approved by the Queensland Museum. No responsibility is taken for the consequences of viewing content on this site. This link will load into a new window.

Table of contents

Authors	Title	PDF File Size
BARHAM, A.J., ROWLAND, M.J. & HITCHCOCK, G.	Torres Strait bepotaim: an overview of archaeological and ethnoarchaeological investigations and research	1.5 MB
McNIVEN, I.J., FITZPATRICK, J. & CORDELL, J.	An Islander world: new approaches to managing the archaeological heritage of Torres Strait, northeast Australia	625 KB
KAUS, D.	Material culture collections and research from Torres Strait	292 KB
McNIVEN, I.J. & HITCHCOCK, G.	Torres Strait marine subsistence specialisation and terrestrial animal translocation	587 KB
CARTER, M., BARHAM, A.J., VETH, P., BIRD, D.W., O'CONNOR, S. & BIRD, R.B.	The Murray Islands Archaeological Project: excavations on Mer and Dauar eastern Torres Strait	749 KB
BIRD, D.W., BLIEGE BIRD, R. & RICHARDSON, J.L.	Meriam ethnoarchaeology: shellfishing and shellmiddens	535 KB
DAVID, B. & McNIVEN, I.J.	Western Torres Strait cultural history project: research design and initial results	400 KB
McNIVEN, I.J. & DAVID, B.	Torres Strait rock-art and ochre sources: an overview	456 KB
McNIVEN, I.J., DAVID, B., BRADY, L. & BRAYER, J.	Kabadul Kula rock-art site, Dauan Island, Torres Strait	1.36 MB
VANDERWAL, R.	Early historical sources for the top western islands in the western Torres Strait exchange network	317 KB
McNIVEN, I.J., VON GNIELINSKI, F. & QUINNELL, M.C.	Torres Strait and the origin of large stone axes from Kiwai Island, Fly River estuary (Papua New Guinea)	404 KB
McNIVEN, I.J. & VON GNIELINSKI, F.	Stone club head manufacture on Dauan Island, Torres Strait	502 KB
HITCHCOCK, G.	Torres Strait origin of some stone-headed clubs from the Torassi or Bensback River area, southwest Papua New Guinea	449 KB
SHNUKAL, A.	The post-contact created environment in the Torres Strait Central Islands	501 KB
ILLIDGE, P., DOYLE, C. & GESNER, P.	An assessment of selected shipwrecks in Torres Strait and far north Great Barrier Reef	551 KB
McPHEE, E.	Archaeology of the pearlshelling industry in Torres Strait	582 KB
GRIMWADE, G.	Japanese pearlers' bath-house, Thursday Island, Torres Strait	680 KB

Availability

Purchase of individual issues:
Contact: Queensland Museum Shop
Telephone: +61 (0)7 3840 7729
Facsimile: +61 (0)7 3846 1918
Email: qmshop@qm.qld.gov.au

Subscription, Institutional Exchange or Purchase of individual papers:
Contact: Queensland Museum Library
Telephone: +61 (0)7 3840 7688
Facsimile: +61 (0)7 3846 1226
Email: qmlib@qm.qld.gov.au