Volume 47, Number 3

October 2012

Articles

Engraved prehistoric Conus shell valuables from southeastern Papua New Guinea: their antiquity, motifs and distribution
WAL AMBROSE, FIONA PETCHEY, PAMELA SWADLING, HARRY BERAN, ELIZABETH BONSHEK, KATHERINE SZABO, SIMON BICKLER and GLENN SUMMERHAYES 113

Terrestrial food production and land use in prehistoric Samoa: an example from Olosega Island, Manu’a, American Samoa
SETH QUINTUS 133

Morphological and chemical analysis of archaeological fish otoliths from the Lower Murray River, South Australia
MORGAN C. F. DISSPAIN, CHRISTOPHER J. WILSON and BRONWYN M. GILLANDERS 141

Research Reports

Identification of Fergusson Island obsidian on the Sepik coast of Papua New Guinea
MARK GOLITKO, MATTHEW SCHAUER and JOHN EDWARD TERRELL 151

New radiocarbon ages from the Lower Murray River, South Australia
CHRISTOPHER WILSON, STEWART FALLON and TOM TREVORROW 157

Reviews

Alistair Paterson, A Millennium of Culture Contact
(Jane Lydon) 161

C.Bird and E. Webb (eds), ‘Fire and Hearth’ Forty Years on: essays in honour of Sylvia Hallam
(Iain Davidson) 162

J. Specht and R. Torrence (eds), Changing Perspectives in Australian Archaeology: Papers in honour of Val Attenbrow
(Sean Ulm) 163

T. Hunt and C. Lipo, The Statues that walked: Unravelling the mystery of Easter Island
(Patrick V. Kirch) 164

J. M. Terrell and E. M. Schechter (eds), Exploring prehistory on the Sepik Coast of Papua New Guinea
(Bruno David) 165

Volume 47, Number 2

July 2012

Articles

Historical and Contemporary Archaeology in the Sydney Basin
Edited by Anne Clarke, Sarah Colley and Martin Gibbs

Aboriginal prehistory, historical and contemporary archaeology in the Sydney Basin
ANNE CLARKE, SARAH COLLEY and MARTIN GIBBS 57

Where’s the evidence? The archaeology of Sydney’s Aboriginal history
PAUL IRISH and TAMIKA GOWARD 60

Does technology make a difference? Aboriginal and colonial fishing in Port Jackson, New South Wales
SARAH COLLEY and VAL ATTENBROW 69

The Convict System of New South Wales: A review of archaeological research since 2001
MARTIN GIBBS 78

‘Rebecca will you marry me? Tim’: Inscriptions as objects of biography at the North Head Quarantine Station, Manly
ANNE CLARKE and URSULA FREDERICK 84

A ‘Tram Massacre’: Institutionalised destruction in Sydney, 1955-1961
PETER HOWARD 91

Towards and archaeology of the twentieth century suburban backyard
STEVE BROWN 99

Reviews

A.Catsambis, B. Ford and D. Hamilton (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology
(Ross Anderson) 107

Martin Thomas and Margo Neale (eds), Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition (Carmel Schrire) 108

Caroline Phillips and Harry Allen (eds), Bridging the Divide: Indigenous Communities and Archaeology into the 21^st Century
(Steve Brown) 111

Volume 47, Number 1

April 2012

Articles

Intrusion, integration and innovation on small and not-so-small islands
with particular reference to Samoa
JANET DAVIDSON 1
Responses: DAVID J. ADDISON and LISA MATISOO-SMITH; ATHOLL ANDERSON,DAVID V. BURLEY, GEOFFREY CLARK
Reply: JANET DAVIDSON 1

Middle-late Holocene skin-working tools in Melanesia: Tattooing and scarification
NINA KONONENKO 14

Last millennium climate change in the occupation and abandonment of Palau’s Rock Islands
GEOFFREY CLARK and CHRISTIAN REEPMEYER 29

Dating the appearance of Lapita pottery in the Bismarck Archipelago and its dispersal into Remote Oceania
TIM DENHAM, CHRISTOPHER BRONK RAMSAY and JIM SPECHT 39

Crossing the Great Divide: a ground-edged hatchet-head from Vaucluse, Sydney
VAL ATTENBROW, IAN GRAHAM, NINA KONONENKO, TESSA CORKILL, JOHN BYRNES,
LAWRENCE BARRON and PETER GRAVE 47

Reviews
Christophe Sand, Lapita Calédonien: Archéologie d’un Premier Peuplement Insulaire Océanien
(Patrick V. Kirch) 53

Anne Ross, Kathleen Pickering Sherman, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Henry D. Delcore and Richard Sherman, Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature
(Denis Byrne) 54

C. Bird and R.E. Webb (eds), ‘Fire and hearth’ Forty Years on: essays in honour of Sylvia J. Hallam

(Iain Davidson) 55