Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tim Murray

by Christine Williamson (Editor), Penny Crook (Editor)

Overview

This festschrift volume celebrates Tim Murray’s significant and wide-ranging contribution to archaeological thought and practice. It includes 27 papers by Tim Murray’s colleagues, research collaborators and students—former and current. Together these comprise a substantive and reflective contribution to Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Cultural Heritage in Australia, Oceania, China, India, the United Kingdom, Northern Europe, and North America.

The collected papers in this volume tie together Murray’s research into the history (or historiography) of archaeological thought, and his commitment to understanding the material culture of the past to ‘write history’. They provide a cross-section of philosophical enquiries and substantive research: from epistemological studies of shared lexicons and important debates in the history of archaeological thought, to the minutae of material culture studies. Several papers explcitly and implicitly explore one of Murray’s great interests: the role of heritage preservation in our exploration of the past, including dedicated tertiary training programs for Indigenous Australians to manage, research and protect their own Country. The book is divided into four parts: History, Archaeology, Philosophy and Heritage, offering an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the past. This volume would be of interest to archaeologists, historians, philosophers of archaeology, and heritage scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031771019
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	04/16/2025
Series:	Outstanding Contributions to Archaeology
Edition description:	2025
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christine Williamson PhD (LTU) is an Australian archaeologist who specializes in the analysis of material culture, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous historic. As the Director of Christine Williamson Heritage Consultants Pty Ltd (CWHC), Christine has gathered together a team of like-minded specialists who delight in investigating the history of Victoria and relaying those findings to other archaeologists and the wider public.

Penny is a historical archaeologist who specializes in urban assemblage analysis, 19th-century consumer studies and material-culture studies. She pioneered the examination of quality in historical archaeological assemblage analysis. Two decades of collaboration with Tim Murray on urban archaeology projects in Sydney and Melbourne have given rise to many co-authored works including the recent Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia (Springer, 2019).

Table of Contents

Dedication.- Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Tim Murray’s research in context (Penny Crook and Christine Williamson).- Part I: History.- Chapter 2. Sydney, Canberra, Cambridge and The Bush: an entirely personal reflection (Jim Allen).- Chapter 3. The history of archaeology at the beginnings of the 21st century: current im-passe and future directions (Oscar Moro Abadía and Emma Lewis-Sing).- Chapter 4. A trail of biographic detection: Pitt Rivers in North America and the Filmer Album Images (Christopher Evans).- Chapter 5. ‘On the study of archæology’, 1850: reflections on Thomas Pettigrew’s Vice-Presidential address to the British Archaeological Association (Gabriel Moshenska).- Chapter 6. Chinese archaeology of the last 40 years (Li Liu).- Chapter 7. Under the Surface: development of an explorative archaeology in China (Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Guohua Yang).- Chapter 8. How an environmentalist saved historic Badrinath: Chandi Prasad Bhatt and a forgotten temple agitation (Nayanjot Lahiri).- Chapter 9. Death of Nelson: small things from a little street (Alan Mayne).- Chapter 10. God and government: mission station interpretive frameworks (Christopher J. Davey).- Part II: Archaeology.- Chapter 11. Environmental Archaeology past and present: lessons for our time (Peter Rowley-Conwy).- Chapter 12. Learning to hunt and gather in traditional Aboriginal societies (Harry Allen).- Chapter 13. Royal funerary architecture in Ancient Tonga (Geoffrey Clark, Phillip Parton and Christian Reepmeyer).- Chapter 14. Money makes the world go round: towards an archaeology of money in the modern world (Gavin Lucas).- Chapter 15. Archaeology of the post-medieval world in Greece: the last two decades (Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory).- Chapter 16. The global significance and unlimited potential of ‘Exploring the Archaeol-ogy of the Modern City’ (Charles E. Orser, Jr.).- Chapter 17. The archaeology of Australian clothing: some details and directions (Hilary Davidson).- Part III: Philosophy.- Chapter 18. Order and disorder in ancient cities and states (Norman Yoffee).- Chapter 19. Are societies without monuments societies without memory? (Alain Schnapp).- Chapter 20. ‘Another dimension of seeing’ Batavia as lore, Batavia as opera: exploring the congruence between the symbolism of archaeology and place, and the artistic expression of identity (Tania Hardy-Smith).- Chapter 21. The Matrix and the nature of archaeological explanation (Simon Holdaway, Matthew Douglass and Benjamin Davies).- Chapter 22. Lapita: history of a name, its terminologies and influences (Matthew Spriggs).- Part IV: Heritage.- Chapter 23. From aesthetics and history to significance: a history of heritage values (Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Ana Pastor Pérez).- Chapter 24. Urban ‘Starchaeology’ in Australia: science, conservation and performance? (Richard Mackay).- Chapter 25. Urban archaeology in the 21st Century: have we dug enough? (Susan Lawrence).- Chapter 26. Pedagogy and public outreach: the value of historical archaeology in a rural Tasmanian community (James L. Flexner, Catherine J. Frieman, D. Ash Lenton, and Sofia C. Samper Carro).- Chapter 27. Sharing knowledge: a history of Aboriginal cultural heritage management training in Victoria (David Clark, Maddy Maitri and Christina Pavlides).- Appendices.