Martin Gibbs
I am currently Professor of Australian Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology at the University of New Englan. My main research interests are in the historical and maritime archaeologies of the Australia-Pacific region, so I tend to have a few (too many and too diverse) projects on the go at any one time. A few of my current directions -
Solomon Islands - My main research focus at present is as Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council funded project named 'Beyond the New World: A 16th century Spanish colony and its impact on indigenous populations in the Solomon Islands'. I have several post-graduate students working on aspects of the indigenous and historic/European sites and artefacts associated with this. As a side project I also have students examining the structure of middle-ground colonialism within the Solomon Islands through an exploration of the parallel structures of church, industrial/commercial and government. I have a new project on the patterns and impacts of WWII in the Solomon Islands, to start in 2013. All of these projects are in collaboration with the Solomon Islands National Museum.
Maritime Industries and cultural landscapes - I have had a long-term interest in maritime industries (and did my PhD research on shore whaling stations), as well as the notion of the maritime industrial frontier (which also comes into play with my current Solomon Islands project).
Cultural factors in Maritime Archaeology - For some years I have been exploring possible models for a more anthropological approach to the study of shipwrecks and associated sites, such as through application of a psychological framework of disaster response. Similarly, I have argued for a re-evaluation of how we understand shipwreck survivor sites, salvage processes, etc. Currently Dr Brad Duncan and I are writing a book on how a 19th century maritime community responded to shipwrecks, both in the short-term and through cross-generational relationship with these sites.
Convicts - I currently have projects and students working on aspects of convict archaeology in both New South Wales (with Denis Gojak) and Tasmania (with the Port Arthur Historic Sites Authority). My particular interests are in the structure of the convict system (especially non-institutional sites) and the notion of convicts as a colonizing and industrial force, as well as the Emancicipist transition.
Archaeological Remote Sensing - I regularly use terrestrial GPR, magnetometer, resistance survey and underwater geophysical techniques in my work and am Director of theSydney Archaeological Prospection Group - (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/archaeology/apg/)
Archaeology of Sydney - Dr Sarah Colley (Uni of Sydney) and I have been working with academic and professional colleagues to create the Archaeology of Sydney Research Group to try to shift historical archaeology in Sydney towards some level of collaboration and synthesis:
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/archaeology/research/archaeology_of_sydney_research_group/index.shtml). A large part of this has been the creation of an on-line grey literature archive - called NSW Archaeology Online - that attempts to preserve and make accessible the last 40 years of reports and theses: (http://nswaol.library.usyd.edu.au). This project is partially funded by NSW Heritage Council. nswaol.library.usyd.edu.au.
Phone: +61-2-67732656
Address: Earth Sciences CO2
University of New England
Armidale 2351
New South Wales
Australia
Solomon Islands - My main research focus at present is as Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council funded project named 'Beyond the New World: A 16th century Spanish colony and its impact on indigenous populations in the Solomon Islands'. I have several post-graduate students working on aspects of the indigenous and historic/European sites and artefacts associated with this. As a side project I also have students examining the structure of middle-ground colonialism within the Solomon Islands through an exploration of the parallel structures of church, industrial/commercial and government. I have a new project on the patterns and impacts of WWII in the Solomon Islands, to start in 2013. All of these projects are in collaboration with the Solomon Islands National Museum.
Maritime Industries and cultural landscapes - I have had a long-term interest in maritime industries (and did my PhD research on shore whaling stations), as well as the notion of the maritime industrial frontier (which also comes into play with my current Solomon Islands project).
Cultural factors in Maritime Archaeology - For some years I have been exploring possible models for a more anthropological approach to the study of shipwrecks and associated sites, such as through application of a psychological framework of disaster response. Similarly, I have argued for a re-evaluation of how we understand shipwreck survivor sites, salvage processes, etc. Currently Dr Brad Duncan and I are writing a book on how a 19th century maritime community responded to shipwrecks, both in the short-term and through cross-generational relationship with these sites.
Convicts - I currently have projects and students working on aspects of convict archaeology in both New South Wales (with Denis Gojak) and Tasmania (with the Port Arthur Historic Sites Authority). My particular interests are in the structure of the convict system (especially non-institutional sites) and the notion of convicts as a colonizing and industrial force, as well as the Emancicipist transition.
Archaeological Remote Sensing - I regularly use terrestrial GPR, magnetometer, resistance survey and underwater geophysical techniques in my work and am Director of theSydney Archaeological Prospection Group - (http://sydney.edu.au/arts/archaeology/apg/)
Archaeology of Sydney - Dr Sarah Colley (Uni of Sydney) and I have been working with academic and professional colleagues to create the Archaeology of Sydney Research Group to try to shift historical archaeology in Sydney towards some level of collaboration and synthesis:
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/archaeology/research/archaeology_of_sydney_research_group/index.shtml). A large part of this has been the creation of an on-line grey literature archive - called NSW Archaeology Online - that attempts to preserve and make accessible the last 40 years of reports and theses: (http://nswaol.library.usyd.edu.au). This project is partially funded by NSW Heritage Council. nswaol.library.usyd.edu.au.
Phone: +61-2-67732656
Address: Earth Sciences CO2
University of New England
Armidale 2351
New South Wales
Australia
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convict workforce, usually referred to as ‘barracks’, although the nature of these structures remains unknown. As a contribution to the documentation and understanding of these key components of these landscapes, a GPR survey with recording of visible surface features was conducted of those areas on each property.