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Ian McNiven

...this project investigates the long-term emergence and development of Torres Strait Islander society, with a focus on the social, political, exchange, economic, artistic and ritual dimensions of maritime life.

Reader PhD , University of Queensland (1991)

BIOGRAPHICAL SNAPSHOT

I am a Reader in Archaeology in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne. I specialise in the archaeology of Australian Indigenous coastal societies, in particular the Queensland coast and the islands of Torres Strait. My research focuses on understanding the long-term development of specialised maritime societies with a focus on the archaeology of seascapes and ritual and spiritual relationships with the sea. Recently I commenced research along the southern coast of New Guinea, investigating ancient cultural connections with Torres Strait and northern Australia. Other recent field research interests include the development of Aboriginal eel aquaculture in western Victoria and the long-term development of Jawoyn rock art (Arnhem Land). In 2007-2009, I was President of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc. and in 2007 I was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries London. In addition to over 100 refereed papers and book chapters, my co-authored/edited books/journals include Archaeology of Southern New Guinea & Torres Strait 2011), The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies (2006), Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (2005), Torres Strait: Archaeology & Material Culture (2004), Australian Coastal Archaeology (1999) and Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck (1998).

CURRENT FIELD RESEARCH

1. Torres Strait Archaeological Project
Established in 1996, this project investigates the long-term emergence and development of Torres Strait Islander cultures over the past 9000 years, with a focus on the social, political, exchange, economic, artistic and ritual dimensions of maritime life. The project also investigates the long-term construction of seascapes as spiritscapes, in particular the ritual dimensions of dugong hunting and ritualised middening practices over the past 1000 years. Fieldwork involves recording rock art sites and excavation of old village midden sites and ceremonial sites such as dugong bone mounds and arrangements of stone and shell. The research is a joint / partnership project with local Torres Strait Islander communities.
Director: Ian McNiven (Monash University)

2. Maritime Settlement of Southern New Guinea Project
Established in 2011, this project developed out large-scale salvage excavations by Monash University associated with the PNG LNG Project. The project builds on the extra-ordinary finding of Lapita ceramics at Caution Bay near Port Moresby and the discovery of a new arm to Lapita colonisation of the Pacific. Apart from characterising the nature of Lapita colonising communities at Caution Bay and how they developed and transformed between 2900 and 2500 years ago, the project investigates pre-Lapita settlement and maritime specialisation between 3000 and 5000 years ago. The broader impact of Lapita colonisation of the south coast will be investigated by tracing the movement of Lapita-based maritime societies to the west in the Papuan Gulf and Fly River region of PNG and south into Torres Strait.
Co-directors: Ian McNiven, Bruno David and Tom Richards (Monash University)

3. Gunditjmara Eel Trap Archaeological Project
Established in 2005, this project investigates the development of stone-walled eel trapping facilities and aquaculture in western Victoria over the past 7000 years. Key aims are developing methodologies to date eel traps buried by sediments and to examine the long-term development of these facilities in terms of existing models of ‘intensification’ for the region. Research is a partnership project with the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
Director: Ian McNiven (Monash University)

4. Archaeology of Jawoyn Rock Art Project
Established in 2010, this new project is a systematic study of the rock art of Jawoyn country, Arnhem Land. It aims to reveal the age and associated archaeological contexts of some of Australia’s most popular rock art traditions, feeding the results back to both academic circles and the nation’s high exposure domestic and international tourism market. Fieldwork involves detailed recording of rock art sites coupled with fine-grained excavation of associated archaeological deposits up to 45,000 years old to determine the long-term history of rock art production and site use.
Co-directors: Bruno David & Ian McNiven (Monash University) et al.

5. Shoalwater Bay Darumbal Archaeological Project
Established in 2002, this project investigates long-term Aboriginal use of marine environments over the past 6000 years based on excavation of mainland and island midden sites located up to 40km offshore across the Shoalwater Bay region of central Queensland. Research areas include mobility patterns, subsistence, socio-political regionalisation, localisation of ceremonial activity and ritual orchestration of seascapes. The research is a joint / partnership project with the local Darumbal Aboriginal community.
Director: Ian McNiven (Monash University)

6. Fraser Island Archaeological & Palaeoenvironmental Project
Established in 1999, this project investigates the development of the local Badtjala people as an island group with a specialised marine economy over the past 6000 years and concomitant interactions of the Badtjala with their changing terrestrial environment. Questions concerning mobility patterns, subsistence, socio-political regionalisation and localisation of ceremonial activity are explored using site survey and excavation data from middens both on the island and on the adjacent mainland. Project is complemented by coring of swamps for palaeoenvironmental data. The research is a joint / partnership project with the local Badtjala Aboriginal community.
Co-directors: Ian McNiven (Monash University) & Ian Thomas (University of Melbourne).

CURRENT TEACHING:

ATS2543/ATS3543 - Archaeology of Indigenous Australia
ATS2544/ATS3544 - Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

President – Australian Archaeological Association (by election): 2007-2009
Fellow – Society of Antiquaries London (by election): 2007-
Fellow – Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (by election): 2007-
Member – Australian Archaeological Association: 1981-
Member – Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology: 2006-
Member – Archaeological & Anthropological Society of Victoria: 1996-

CURRENT HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Journal Editorial Boards

Archaeology in Oceania (by invitation) 2003
The Artefact (J. Anthropological & Archaeological Society of Victoria) (by invitation) 1999
Queensland Archaeological Research (by invitation) 2001

Museum Honorary Associate

Museum Victoria (by invitation): 2011-
Queensland Museum: Cultures & History Program (by invitation): 2008-

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

1999-2002 Lecturer (School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies & Archaeology, University of Melbourne
1994-1999 Cultural Heritage Consultant (McNiven and Russell & Associates, Melbourne)
1995-1998 Native Title Land Claim Archaeologist (Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation, Melbourne)
1993 Cultural Heritage Manager, Fraser Island World Heritage Area (Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Maryborough)
1990-1992 ARC Research Associate (Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora)
1985-1988 Tutorial Fellow (Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology, University of Queensland).

PUBLICATIONS

Books/Monographs/Special Journal Issues
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Hitchcock, G. (eds) 2011 (in press). Goemulgal: Natural and Cultural Histories of the Mabuyag Islands, Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Green, M. (eds) 2010. Archaeology of Southern New Guinea and Torres Strait. Papers in Honour of Ron Vanderwal. The Artefact 33.
David, B., Barker, B. & MCNIVEN, I.J. (eds) 2006. The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Russell, L. 2005. Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology. Walnut Creek (USA): AltaMira Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Quinnell, M. (eds) 2004. Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1). Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
Hall, J. & MCNIVEN, I.J. (eds) 1999. Australian Coastal Archaeology. Research Papers in Archaeology & Natural History, No. 31. Canberra: ANH Publications, Department of Archaeology & Natural History, RSPAS, The Australian National University.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Russell, L. & Schaffer, K. (eds) 1998. Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser’s Shipwreck. London: Leicester University Press.
Bednarik, R. & MCNIVEN, I.J. (eds) 1998. Alexander Gallus Memorial Issue. The Artefact 21.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1994. “Relics of a By-Gone Race”?: Managing Aboriginal Sites in the Great Sandy Region. Ngulaig Monograph Series No. 12. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland.

Refereed journal papers & book chapters
In press
MCNIVEN, I.J., Crouch, J., Richards, T., Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, Dolby, N. & Jacobsen, G. 2011. Dating Aboriginal stone-walled fishtraps at Lake Condah, southeast Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Brady, L.M. 2011. Rock art and seascapes. In J. McDonald & P. Veth (eds) A Companion to Rock Art. Wiley-Blackwell.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2011. Canoes of Mabuyag and Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Wright, D., Sutton, S., Weisler, M., Hocknull, S. and Stanisic, J. 2011. Midden formation and marine specialisation at Goemu village, Mabuyag (Torres Strait) before and after European contact. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series.
MCNIVEN, I.J., B. David, K. Aplin, B. Asmussen, J. Mialanes, C. Rowe, M. Leavesley and T. Richards 2011. Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast. In S. Haberle and B. David (eds), Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes. Terra Australis 34, The Australian National University, Canberra.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2012. Australia. In N.A. Silberman (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2012. Colonialism. In N.A. Silberman (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
David, B. MCNIVEN, I.J., Richards, T., Connaughton, S., Leavesley, M., Barker, B. & Rowe, C. 2011. Lapita sites in the Central Province of mainland Papua New Guinea. World Archaeology.
Hitchcock, G., McNiven, I.J. & the Pulu IPA Committee 2011. Managing a sacred islet: Pulu Indigenous Protected Area. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series.
Jones-Amin, H., Campanelli, G., Flood, N., David, B. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 2011. Conservation strategies used to conserve 2 Lapita ceramics from south eastern Papua New Guinea. Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material Bulletin.
David, B., Geneste, J-M, Whear, R.L., Delannoy, J-J., Katherine, M., Gunn, R.G., Clarkson, C., Plisson, H., Lee, P., Petchey, F., Rowe, C., Barker, B., Lamb, L., Miller, W., Hoerlé, S., James, D., Boche, E., Aplin, K., MCNIVEN, I.J., Richards, T. & Fairbairn, A. Nawarla Gabarnmang, a 45,000 year old site in Jawoyn Country, SW Arnhem Land Plateau. Australian Archaeology 73.
2011
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B., Richards, T., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., Mialanes, J., Leavesley, M., Faulkner, P. and Ulm, S. 2011. New direction in human colonisation of the Pacific: Lapita settlement of south coast New Guinea. Australian Archaeology 72:1-6.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2011. The Bradshaw debate: lessons learned from critiquing colonialist interpretations of Gwion Gwion rock paintings of the Kimberley, Western Australia. Australian Archaeology 72:35-44.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2011. Backed artefacts as material dimensions to social inclusiveness. Australian Archaeology 72:71-72.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2011. Torres Strait Islanders: the 9000-year history of a maritime people. In The Torres Strait Islands. Pp. 210-219. Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art.
Skelly, R., David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Barker, B. 2011. The ritual dugong bone mounds of Koey Ngurtai, Torres Strait, Australia: investigating their construction. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21:32-54.
2010
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2010. Navigating the human-animal divide: marine mammal hunters and rituals of sensory allurement. World Archaeology 42(2):215-230.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2010. ‘Oh wonderful beach’: the Marind-anim of Papua and ethnographic foundations for an archaeology of a littoral sea people. The Artefact (Journal of the Anthropological & Archaeological Society of Victoria) 33:91-108.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Bell, D. 2010. Fishers and farmers: historicising the Gunditjmara freshwater fishery, western Victoria. The La Trobe Journal 85:83-105.
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B., Aplin, K., Pivoru, M., Pivoru, W., Sexton, A., Brown, J., Clarkson, C., Connell, K., Stanisic, J., Weisler, M., Haberle, S., Fairbairn, A. and Kemp, N. 2010. Historicising the present: Late Holocene emergence of a rainforest hunting camp, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Australian Archaeology 71:41-56.
Brady, L.M., Thorn, A., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Evans, T. 2010. Rock art conservation and termite management in Torres Strait, NE Australia. Rock Art Research 27(1):19-34.
2009
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B., Goemulgau Kod & Fitzpatrick, J. 2009. The great kod of Pulu: mutual historical emergence of ceremonial sites and social groups in Torres Strait, NE Australia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19(3):291-317.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Brady, L.M. & Barham, A.J. 2009. Kabadul Kula and the antiquity of Torres Strait rock art. Australian Archaeology 69:29-40.
David, B, MCNIVEN, I.J., Crouch, J., Mura Badulgal Corporation Committee, Skelly, R., Barker, B., Courtney, K. and Hewitt, G. 2009. Koey Ngurtai: the emergence of a ritual domain in Western Torres Strait. Archaeology in Oceania 44:1-17.
2008
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2008. Inclusions, exclusions, transitions: Torres Strait Islander constructed landscapes over the past 4000 years. The Holocene 18(3):449-462.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2008. Sentient sea: seascapes as spiritscapes. In B. David & J. Thomas (eds) Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Pp. 149-157. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Bedingfield, A.C. 2008. Past and present marine mammal hunting rates and abundances: dugong (Dugong dugon) evidence from Dabangai Bone Mound, Torres Strait. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:505-15.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Russell, L. 2008. Towards a decolonisation of Australian indigenous archaeology. In Bentley, R.A., Maschner, H. & Chippindale, C. (eds) Handbook of Archaeological Theories, pp. 423-43. Walnut Creek (CA): AltaMira Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & D. Wright 2008. Ritualised marine midden formation in western Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). In G. Clark, F. Leach and S. O'Connor (eds), Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes, pp. 133-147. Terra Australis 29. Canberra: ANU ePress.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Crouch, J., Weisler, M., Kemp, N., Clayton Martínez, L., Stanisic, J., Orr, M., Brady, L., Hocknull, S. & Boles, W. 2008. Tigershark Rockshelter (Baidamau Mudh): seascape and settlement reconfigurations on the sacred islet of Pulu, western Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). Australian Archaeology 66:15-32.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Von Gnielinski, F. 2008. A decorated stone club head (gabagab) from Mua, Torres Strait. In B. David, L. Manus and M. Quinnell (eds) Gelam’s Homeland: Cultural and Natural History on the Island of Mua, Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 4(2):553-57.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Weisler, M.I. 2008. Archaeological excavations at Gerain and Urakaraltam. In B. David, L. Manus and M. Quinnell (eds) Gelam’s Homeland: Cultural and Natural History on the Island of Mua, Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 4(2):525-52.
Ash, J., Brooks, A. & David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. 2008. European-manufactured objects from the ‘early mission’ site of Totalai, Mua (Western Torres Strait). In B. David, L. Manus and M. Quinnell (eds) Gelam’s Homeland: Cultural and Natural History on the Island of Mua, Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 4(2):473-91.
2007
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2007. Lake Condah. In A. Cremin (ed.), Archaeologica: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures, pp. 358-359. North Sydney: Random House Australia.
Crouch, J., MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B., Rowe, C., Weisler, M. 2007. Berberass: marine resource specialisation and environmental change in Torres Strait over the past 4000 years. Archaeology in Oceania 42:49-64.
2006
MCNIVEN, I.J., Dickinson, W.R., David, B., Weisler, M., von Gnielinski, F., Carter, M. and Zoppi, U. 2006. Mask Cave: Red-slipped pottery and the Australian-Papuan settlement of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). Archaeology in Oceania 41(2):49-81.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2006. Dauan 4 and the emergence of ethnographically-known social arrangements across Torres Strait 600-800 years ago. Australian Archaeology 62:1-12.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2006. Late moves on Donax: Aboriginal marine specialisation in southeast Queensland over the last 6000 years. In S. Ulm & I. Lilley (eds) An Archaeological Life: Papers in Honour of Jay Hall, pp. 109-124. Brisbane: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2006. Colonial diffusionism and the archaeology of external influences on Aboriginal culture. In David, B., Barker, B. & McNiven, I.J. (eds) The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies, pp. 85-106. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B. & Barker, B. 2006. The social archaeology of Indigenous societies. In David, B., Barker, B. & McNiven, I.J. (eds) The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies, pp. 2-19. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
Lourandos, H., David, B., Barker, B. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 2006. An interview with Harry Lourandos. In David, B., Barker, B. & McNiven, I.J. (eds) The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies, pp. 20-39. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press.
2005
David, B. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 2005. The sea, the spirits and the ancestors. In D. Nona, Sesserae: The Works of Dennis Nona, pp. 7-10. Brisbane: Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art.
David, D., Hogan, P., Walt, H., Wilson, M., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Lawson, E. 2005. Rio de las Vacas Shelter and the distribution of Sudden and San Rafael Side-notched points: high country cultural links during the late Archaic in the American Southwest. The Artefact 27:113-22.
2004
MCNIVEN, I.J., von Gnielinski, F. & Quinnell, M. 2004. Torres Strait and the origin of large stone axes from Kiwai Island, Fly River estuary (Papua New Guinea). In I.J. McNiven & M. Quinnell (eds) Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1):201-19. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Fitzpatrick, J. & Cordell, J. 2004. An Islander world: new approaches to managing the archaeological heritage of Torres Strait, northeast Australia. In I.J. McNiven & M. Quinnell (eds) Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1):73-91. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & David, B. 2004. Rock-art Art of Torres Strait: overview of sites and ochre sources. In I.J. McNiven & M. Quinnell (eds) Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1):209-225. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B., Brayer, J. & Brady, L. 2004. Kabadul Kula rock-art site, Dauan Island, Torres Strait. In I.J. McNiven & M. Quinnell (eds) Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1): 227-255. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Hitchcock, G. 2004. Torres Strait Islander marine subsistence specialisation and terrestrial animal translocation. In I.J. McNiven & M. Quinnell (eds) Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1):105-162. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & von Gnielinski, F. 2004. Manufacture of stone club heads from Dauan Island, Torres Strait. In I.J. McNiven & M. Quinnell (eds) Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1):187-200. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J., Mitchell, R., Orr, M., Haberle, S., Brady, L., & Crouch, J. 2004. Badu 15 and the Papuan-Austronesian settlement ofTorres Strait. Archaeology in Oceania 39:65-78.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J., Manas, L., Brady, L., Crouch, J. & Neliman, G. 2004. Goba of Mua: Archaeology working with oral tradition. Antiquity 78:158-72.
David, B. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 2004. Western Torres Strait Cultural History Project. In I.J. McNiven & M. Quinnell (eds) Torres Strait Archaeology & Material Culture. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 3(1):199-208. Brisbane: Queensland Museum.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J., Bowie, W., Nomoa, M., Ahmat, P., Crouch, J., Quinnell, M. & Herle, A. 2004. The archaeology of Torres Strait turtle shell masks: the Badu Island cache. Journal of Aboriginal Studies 1:18-25.
David, B. MCNIVEN, I.J., Mura Badulgal Native Title Corporation Committee, Crouch, J. & Brady, L. 2004. The Argan stone arrangement complex, Badu Island: initial results from Torres Strait. Australian Archaeology 58:1-6.
Brady, L.M., David, B., Manus, L. and the Mualgal (Torres Strait Islanders) Corporation, & MCNIVEN, I. 2004. Rock paintings of Mua Island: initial results from western Torres Strait. Rock Art Research 21(1):27-46.
2003
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2003. Saltwater People: Spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of Australian indigenous seascapes. World Archaeology 35(3):329-349.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Feldman, R. 2003. Ritually orchestrated seascapes: hunting magic and dugong bone mounds in Torres Strait, NE Australia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 13(2):169-194.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Brayer, J. 2003. Invisible paintings. British Archaeology 73:14-15.
2002
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B. & Brady, L. 2002. Torres Strait rock-art: an enhanced perspective. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2:69-74.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2002. Direct dating of rock-art: prospects and problems. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12:161-163.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Thomas, I. & Zoppi, U. 2002. Fraser Island Archaeological Project: Background, aims and preliminary results of excavations at Waddy Point 1 Rockshelter. Queensland Archaeological Research 13:1-20.
David, D., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Langton, M. 2002. Re-inventing the wheel: Indigenous peoples and the master race in Philip Ruddock’s ‘wheel’ comments. Philosophy Activism Nature 2:31-45.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Russell, L. 2002. Ritual response: place marking and the colonial frontier in Australia. In B. David & M. Wilson (eds) Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place, pp. 27-41. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2001
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2001. Torres Strait Islanders and the maritime frontier in early colonial Australia. In L. Russell (ed.) Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies, pp.175-97. Studies in Imperialism Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2001. Diggers and collectors: the early years of Aboriginal archaeology. In C. Rasmussen (ed.), A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854-2000, pp. 214-17. Melbourne: Scribe Publications.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2001. Burials and beyond: changing directions for Aboriginal archaeology. In C. Rasmussen (ed.), A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854-2000, pp. 277-79. Melbourne: Scribe Publications.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J., Brayer, J. & Watchman, A. 2001.Why digital enhancement of rock-art works: rescaling and saturating colours. Antiquity 75:781-92.
Russell, L. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 2001. The Wurundjeri of Melbourne, Australia. In J. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Endangered Peoples of Oceania: Struggles to Survive and Thrive, pp. 233-47. Westport (CT): Greenword Publishing Group
2000
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2000. Backed to the Pleistocene. Archaeology in Oceania 35:48-52.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2000. Treats or retreats: Aboriginal island use along the Gippsland coast, southeastern Australia. The Artefact 23:22-34.
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B. & Brayer, J. 2000. Digital enhancement of Torres Strait rock-art. Antiquity 74:759-760.
Watchman, A., David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Flood, J. 2000. Micro-archaeology of engraved and painted rock surface crusts at Yiwarlarlay (The Lightning Brothers site), Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:315-325.
1999
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B. & Lourandos, H. 1999. Long-term Aboriginal use of western Victoria: Reconsidering the significance of recent Pleistocene dates for the Grampians-Gariwerd region. Archaeology in Oceania 34:83-85.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1999. Fissioning and regionalisation: the social dimensions of changes in Aboriginal use of the Great Sandy Region, coastal S.E. Queensland. In J. Hall & I.J. McNiven (eds), Australian Coastal Archaeology, pp. 157-68. Research Papers in Archaeology & Natural History, No. 31. Canberra: ANH Publications.
Hall, J. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 1999. Australian coastal archaeology: introduction. In J. Hall & I.J. McNiven (eds), Australian Coastal Archaeology, pp. 1-5. Research Papers in Archaeology & Natural History, No. 31 Canberra: ANH Publications.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Hall, J. 1999. Northeast: introduction. In J. Hall & I.J. McNiven (eds), Australian Coastal Archaeology, pp. 87-90. Research Papers in Archaeology & Natural History, No. 31. Canberra: ANH Publications.
1998
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. Aboriginal settlement of the saline lake and volcanic landscapes of Corangamite Basin, Western Victoria. The Artefact 21:63-94.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. Aboriginal archaeology of the Corroboree Beach dune field, Fraser Island: Re-survey and re-assessment. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series 1:1-22.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. Enmity and amity: Reconsidering stone-headed club (gabagaba) procurement and trade in Torres Strait. Oceania 69:94-115.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. Shipwreck saga as archaeological text: Reconstructing Fraser Island’s Aboriginal past. In I. McNiven, L. Russell and K. Schaffer (eds), Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser’s Shipwreck, pp. 37-50. London: Leicester University Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Russell, L. & Schaffer, K. 1998. Introduction. In I. McNiven, L. Russell and K. Schaffer (eds), Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser’s Shipwreck, pp. 1-10. London: Leicester University Press.
Russell, L. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. Monumental colonialism: Megaliths and the appropriation of Australia’s Aboriginal past. Journal of Material Culture 3:283-299.
Courtney, K. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. clay tobacco pipes from Aboriginal middens on Fraser Island, Queensland. Australian Archaeology 47:44-53.
Sagona, A., Erkmen, M., Sagona, C., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Howells, S. 1998. Excavations at Sos Höyük, 1997: Fourth preliminary report. Anatolica 24:31-64.
David, B., Bekessy, L., Bultitude, B., Clarkson, C., Lawson, E., MCNIVEN, I.J., Murray, C. & Tuniz, C. 1998. More than 37,000 years of Aboriginal occupation. In B. David (ed.), Ngarrabullgan: Geographical Investigations in Djungan Country, Cape York Peninsula, pp. 157-78. Monash Publications in Geography and Environmental Science No. 51. Clayton: Department of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University.
1997
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Russell, L. 1997. ‘Strange paintings’ and ‘mystery races’: Kimberley rock art, diffusionism and colonialist constructions of Australia’s Aboriginal past. Antiquity 71:801-809.
1996
MCNIVEN, I.J., 1996. Titanic: May she rest in peace. New Scientist 151: 60.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1996. Mid- to late Holocene shell deposits at Hibbs Bay, southwest Tasmania: Implications for Aboriginal occupation and marine resource exploitation. In J. Allen (ed.), Report of the Southern Forests Archaeological Project. Volume 1. Site Descriptions, Stratigraphies and Chronologies, pp. 219-47. Bundoora: School of Archaeology, La Trobe University.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J., et al. 1996. The Ngarrabullgan Homeland Project: Current research in Kuku Djungan Country, North Queensland. Australian Archaeology 43:32-36.
1995
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Russell, L. 1995. Place with a past: Reconciling wilderness and the Aboriginal past in World Heritage areas. Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal 15:505-519.
Ulm, S., Barker, B., Border, A., Hall, J., Lilley, I., MCNIVEN, I.J., Neal, R. & Rowland, M. 1995. Pre-European coastal settlement and use of the sea: A view from Queensland. Australian Archaeology 41:24-26.
1994
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1994. Technological organisation and settlement in SW Tasmania after the Glacial Maximum. Antiquity 68:75-82.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J., Attenbrow, V., Flood, J. & Collins, J. 1994. Of Lightning Brothers and white cockatoos: Dating the antiquity of signifying systems in the Northern Territory, Australia. Antiquity 68:241-251.
1993
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1993. Raw material proximity and bevel-edged tool use, Teewah Beach, southeast Queensland. Archaeology in Oceania 28:138-143.
MCNIVEN, I.J.1993. Tula adzes and bifacial points on the east coast of Australia. Australian Archaeology 36:22-33.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Marshall, B., Allen, J., Stern, N. & Cosgrove, R. 1993. The Southern Forests Archaeological Project: An overview. In M.A. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (ed.), Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia, pp. 213-24. Occasional Papers in Prehistory, No. 24. Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
1992
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1992. Mid-Holocene sandblow sites in the Great Sandy Region, coastal southeast Queensland: Implications for models of late Holocene rainforest exploitation and settlement restructuring. Queensland Archaeological Research 9:1-16.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1992. Shell middens and mobility: The use of off-site faunal remains, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Field Archaeology 19:495-508.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1992. Ethnohistorical reconstructions of Aboriginal lifeways along the Cooloola coast, Southeast Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 102:5-24.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1992. Bevel-edged tools from coastal southeast Queensland. Antiquity 66:701-709.
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B. & Flood, J. 1992. Delamere 3: Further excavation at Yiwarlarlay (Lightning Brothers Site), Northern Territory. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1:67-73.
1991
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1991. The resharpening of bevel-edged tools from coastal southeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30:493-504.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1991. The Double Island Point Aboriginal burials, coastal Southeast Queensland. Australian Archaeology 32:10-16.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1991. Teewah Beach: New evidence for Holocene coastal occupation in southeast Queensland. Australian Archaeology 33:14-27.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1991. Settlement and subsistence activities along Tin Can Bay, southeast Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 8:85-107.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Flood, J. 1991. Archaeological excavations at Yiwarlarlay 1: A site report. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30:373-380.
1990
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1990. Blowout taphonomy: Non-cultural associations between faunal and stone artefact assemblages along the Cooloola coast, southeast Queensland. Australian Archaeology 31:67-74.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J., Flood, J. & Frost, R. 1990. Yiwarlarlay 1: Archaeological excavations at the Lightning Brothers Site, Delamere Station, Northern Territory. Archaeology in Oceania 25:79-84.
David, B., Flood, J., MCNIVEN, I.J., Attenbrow, V. & Frost, R. 1990. The Lightning Brothers Project: 1988 and 1989 field seasons. Australian Archaeology 31:86-91.
1989
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1989. Aboriginal shell middens at the mouth of the Maroochy River, southeast Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 6:28-52.
1988
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1988. Brooyar Rockshelter: A late Holocene seasonal hunting camp from southeast Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 5:133-160.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Hiscock, P. 1988. Small unifacial pebble cores from Fraser Island, S.E. Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 5:161-165.
1985
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1985. An archaeological survey of the Cooloola Region, S.E. Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 2:4-37.

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