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)
CURRENT FIELD RESEARCH
1. Torres Strait Archaeological Project
Established in 1996, 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. Research also investigates long-term interactions of Torres Strait Islanders with Melanesian peoples to the north (New Guinea), Aboriginal peoples to the south (mainland Australia), and with European sailors / resource raiders of the past 400 years. The research is a joint / partnership project with local Islander communities. Fieldwork involves interviews with Islanders, recording rock art sites and ceremonial sites, analysis of ethnographic artefacts in museums, and excavation of old village/occupation sites and ceremonial sites (arrangements of bone, stone and shell).
2. Gunditjmara Eel Trap Dating Project
Established in 2005, this project investigates the development of stone-walled eel trapping facilities in western Victoria. 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 Windamara Aboriginal Corporation and the Gunditj Mirring Aboriginal Corporation.
3. Shoalwater Bay Darumbal Archaeological Project
Established in 2002, this project investigates long-term use of marine environments (islands and mainland coast) and the development of seascapes by Aboriginal people of 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. Research is a partnership project with the Darumbal - Noolar Murree Aboriginal Corporation for Land and Culture, Rockhampton.
4. 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 last 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.
CURRENT TEACHING:
- AIA1000 - World Prehistory
- AIA2000-3000 Archaeology of Indigenous Australia
- AIA2100-3100 Archaeological Theories and Controversies
- AIA2200-3200 Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- President – Australian Archaeological Association (by election): 2007-
- 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-
Advisory Committee Member
- Point Nepean Trust Indigenous Advisory Committee (by invitation): 2007-
- Lake Condah Sustainability Development Project Committee (by invitation): 2007-
- Torres Strait Land & Sea Unit Technical Advisory Group: 2006-
Museum Honorary Associate
- 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
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.
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.
Post-colonial archaeology and ethics
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, 423-43. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
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.
Australia. In B. David & M. Wilson (eds) Inscribed Landscapes: Marking and Making Place. Pp. 27-41. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
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.
Russell, L. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. Monumental colonialism: Megaliths and the appropriation of Australia’s Aboriginal past. Journal of Material Culture 3: 283-99.
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.
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: 801-9.
MCNIVEN, I.J., 1996. Titanic: May she rest in peace. New Scientist 151: 60.
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: 505-19.
Torres strait and seascape archaeology
MCNIVEN, I.J. (in press) Sentient sea: seascapes as spiritscapes. In B. David & J. Thomas (eds) Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Left Coast Press.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & D. Wright (in press) 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. Terra Australis.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Crouch, J., Weisler, M., Kemp, N. Clayton Martínez, L., Stanisic, J., Orr, M., Brady, L., Hocknull, S. & Boles, W. (in press) Tigershark Rockshelter (Baidamau Mudh): seascape and settlement reconfigurations on the sacred islet of Pulu, western Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). Australian Archaeology.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Von Gnielinski, F. (in press). A decorated stone club head (gabagab) from Mua, Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series.
Ash, J., Brooks, A. & David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. (in press). Material culture from the ‘early mission’ site of Totalai, Mua (Western Torres Strait). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Weisler, M.I. (in press) Archaeological excavations at Gerain and Urakaraltam. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series.
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. & 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.
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.
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. 2005. Ritual engines of the sea. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute Journal 4(2):23-31.
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.
MCNIVEN, I.J., Fitzpatrick, J. & Cordell, J. 2004. An Islander world: new approaches to managing the archaeological heritage of Torres Strait, northeast Australia. In J.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 J.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 J.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 J.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 J.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.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2003. Saltwater People: Spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of Australian indigenous seascapes. World Archaeology 35(3): 329-49.
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):169-94.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Brayer, J. 2003. Invisible paintings. British Archaeology 73: 14-5.
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B. & Brady, L. 2002. Torres Strait rock-art: an enhanced perspective. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2: 69-74.
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.
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.
MCNIVEN, I.J., David, B. & Brayer, J. 2000. Digital enhancement of Torres Strait rock-art. Antiquity 74: 759-60.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. Enmity and amity: Reconsidering stone-headed club (gabagaba) procurement and trade in Torres Strait. Oceania 69: 94-115.
Southeast Queensland
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., 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.
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.
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.
Courtney, K. & MCNIVEN, I.J. 1998. clay tobacco pipes from Aboriginal middens on Fraser Island, Queensland. Australian Archaeology 47: 44-53.
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: 24-6.
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 & bifacial points on the east coast of Australia. Australian Archaeology 36: 22-33.
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: 701-9.
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.
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.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1989. Aboriginal shell middens at the mouth of the Maroochy River, southeast Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 6: 28-52.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1988. Brooyar Rockshelter: A late Holocene seasonal hunting camp from southeast Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 5: 133-60.
MCNIVEN, I.J. & Hiscock, P. 1988. Small unifacial pebble cores from Fraser Island, S.E. Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 5: 161-65.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1985. An archaeological survey of the Cooloola Region, S.E. Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 2: 4-37.
Victoria
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2007. Lake Condah. In Cremin, A. (ed.) Archaeologica: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures. Random House Australia.
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.
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.
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. & 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., 1998. Aboriginal settlement of the saline lake and volcanic landscapes of Corangamite Basin, Western Victoria. The Artefact 21: 63-94.
Tasmania
MCNIVEN, I.J. 2000. Backed to the Pleistocene. Archaeology in Oceania 35: 48-52.
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.
MCNIVEN, I.J. 1994. Technological organisation and settlement in SW Tasmania after the Glacial Maximum. Antiquity 68: 75-82.
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.
Northern Territory
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: 315-25.
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: 241-51.
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.
David, B., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Flood, J. 1991. Archaeological excavations at Yiwarlarlay 1: A site report. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 373-380.
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.
Papua New Guinea
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 J.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.
USA
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.
Turkey
Sagona, A., Erkmen, M., Sagona, C., MCNIVEN, I.J. & Howells, S. 1998. Excavations at Sos Höyük, 1997: Fourth preliminary report. Anatolica 24: 31-64.
CULTURAL HERITAGE CONSULTING REPORTS
2008 Torres Strait Sea Claim: Archaeological Report. Report to Native Title Office, Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island, Qld. 197 pp.
2008 Lake Condah Restoration Weir Installation: Cultural Heritage Management Plan. Report to Dept. of Sustainability & Environment, Portland, Victoria. 33 pp.
2005 Gunditjmara Native Title Application Area: Archaeological Overview & Synthesis. Report to Native Title Services Victoria Ltd., North Melbourne. 93 pp.
2005 Cultural Heritage Sites Survey along the Kaiam-Goaribari section of the Papua New Guinea Gas Pipeline Route. Monash University Cultural Heritage Report Series 14. (with Bruno David, Tim Denham & John Dop)
2005 Archaeological Survey and Salvage Programme of Koey Ngurtai, Torres Strait (Stage 2): Final Report. Report for Mura Badulgal (Torres Strait Islanders) Corporation, Badu, and Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island. 398pp. (with Bruno David)
2004 Radar Facility Archaeological Salvage Programme on Dauan, Torres Strait: Final Report (Results of Excavations). Report prepared for Dauanalgaw (Torres Strait Islanders) Corporation, Dauan, and Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island. 39pp. (with Bruno David)
2003 Radar Tower Sites, Torres Strait. Report prepared for Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island. (with B. David & K. Murphy). 87pp.
2002 Torres Strait: Overview of Archaeological Research. Report to Native Title Office, Torres Strait Regional Authority, Thursday Island. 36 pp.
2000 Investigation of Cultural Values Lady Annie and Lady Loretta Mines, Northwest Queensland. Report prepared for Buka Minerals. (with L. Godwin). 104pp.
1999 Archaeological Salvage Excavations and Surface Collections of Aboriginal Culture Sites at Devoncourt, Burke River & Boomerang Creek, NW Qld. Report prepared for Main Roads (Northwest District). 91pp.
1998 Torres Strait Culture Site Documentation Project. Report prepared for the Island Coordinating Council, Thursday Island, Queensland. 163pp. (With Judith Fitzpatrick and John Cordell)
1999 Darumbal Cultural Heritage, Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area: Islands & Peninsula Survey. Report prepared for Darumbal-Noolar Murree Aboriginal Corporation for Land and Culture, Rockhampton. 224pp.
1998 Archaeological Salvage Excavations and Surface Collections of Kalkadoon Culture Sites at Devoncourt, Burke River and Boomerang Creek, NW Queensland. Report prepared for Main Roads, Cloncurry. 52pp.
1998 Healesville District. Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (South Central Victoria): Healesville-Toolangi. Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 20pp.
1998 Healesville District. Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (S. Central Vic): Healesville-Toolangi. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra, Melb. 29pp. (with L. Russell)
1998 Hurstbridge District. Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (South Central Victoria): Hurstbridge - Arthurs Creek & Panton Hill - St Andrews. Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 27pp.
1998 Hurstbridge District. Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (South Central Victoria): Hurstbridge - Arthurs Creek & Panton Hill - St Andrews. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 34pp. (with L. Russell)
1997 Darumbal Cultural Heritage, Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area: Preliminary Archaeological and Anthropological Survey. Report prepared for Darumbal-Noolar Murree Aboriginal Corporation for Land and Culture, Rockhampton. 190pp. (with L. Russell)
1997 Geelong-Lara District. Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (South Central Victoria): Geelong T.O. - Lara; Lara T.O. - Ford Proving Ground; & Lara CMTS T.O. - Lara CMTS. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 43pp. (with L. Russell)
1997 Archaeological Assessment of the Lilly Pilly Walking Track, Wilsons Prom. Report to Parks Victoria. 20pp.
1997 Grampians District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (SW Victoria): Mirranatwa - Victoria Valley. Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 15pp.
1997 Condah District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (Southwest Victoria): Condah - Hotspur, Grassdale - Branxholme, & Byaduk North - Byaduk - Macarthur. Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 14pp.
1997 Grampians District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (SW Vic): Mirranatwa-Victoria Valley. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 37pp. (with L. Russell)
1997 Penshurst District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (SW Victoria): Penshurst - Gazette. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 31pp. (with L. Russell)
1997 Casterton District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (SW Victoria): Casterton - Strathdownie. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra, Melb. 30pp. (with L. Russell)
1997 Condah and Chetwynd Districts Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (Southwest Victoria): Coojar - Coojar T.O., Condah - Hotspur, Grassdale - Branxholme, & Byaduk North - Byaduk - Macarthur. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 39pp. (with L. Russell)
1996 Ethnological Specimens or Aboriginal Graves? Managing Aboriginal Burial Crypts of the Central Queensland Highlands (Stage 1) - Preliminary Assessment and Recommendations. Report to Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Central Coast Region. 125pp.
1996 Camperdown District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (southwest Victoria): Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 17pp.
1996 Sorrento District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (south central Victoria): Sorrento-Flinders & Fingal-RIM. Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural heritage Impact Assessment. Report for Telstra, Melb. 13pp.
1996 Seymour District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (central Victoria): Seymour-Kobyboyn. Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 17pp.
1996 Camperdown District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (southwest Victoria): Camperdown-Pomborneit; Camperdown-Bookar; Camperdown-Kariah-Leslie Manor; Lismore-Mt. Bute-Wallinduc; Lismore-Berrybank; Pura Pura-Vite Vite North & Derrinallum-Larralea. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 33pp.
1996 Seymour District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (central Victoria): Seymour-Kobyboyn. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 18pp. (with L. Russell)
1996 Sorrento District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (S. Central Vic): Sorrento-Flinders & Fingal-RIM. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra, Melbourne. 32pp.
1996 Swan Hill District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (northwest Victoria): Stage II Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 11pp.
1996 Swan Hill District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (northwest Victoria): Wemen-Annuello, Annuello-Manangatang-Chinkapook, & Kyalite T.O.-Natya-Boundary Bend. Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 44pp.
1996 Echuca District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (northern central Victoria). Echuca-Echuca Village. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 36pp.
1996 Mansfield District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Route (east central Victoria). Mansfield-Tolmie. An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 28pp.
1996 Omeo District Telstra Radio Tower Sites (northeast Victoria). Mt. Pendergast and Gibsons Folly: Archaeological Survey and Cultural Heritage Assessment. Report for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 34pp.
1995 Archaeological Survey of Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park, South Gippsland, Victoria: Land-Use Patterns, Sites, and Management Recommendations. Report prepared for West and Central Gippsland Aboriginal Co-operatives, Victoria. 112pp.
1995 Western District Telstra Optical Fibre Cable Routes (southwest Victoria): (Yambuk-Orford-Willatook-Warrong, Toolong T.O.-Toolong, Terang-The Sisters, Purnim-Panmure-Naringal East, Darlington-Dundonnell-Woorndoo & Derrinallum-Pura Pura): An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telstra Australia, Melbourne. 60pp. (with L. Russell)
1995 Archaeological Survey of Chinaman Long Beach, Wilson’s Promontory, Victoria. Report prepared for Heritage Services Branch, Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. 50pp.
1995 Timboon Area Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Routes (Ecklin-Brucknell-Timboon-Cooriemungle-Princetown, Peterborough T.O.-Peterborough township-Port Campbell T.O.-Port Campbell township-Timboon-Scotts Creek): An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telecom, Melbourne. 34pp. (with L. Russell)
1995 Warrnambool District Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Routes (Killarney-Killarney T.O., Allansford-Nirranda, & Cobden-Simpson): An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telecom, Melbourne. 38pp. (with L. Russell)
1994 Archaeological Survey of Corangamite Basin, South Central Victoria: Land-use Patterns, Sites, and Management Recommendations. Report for Heritage Services Branch, Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. 150pp.
1994 East Coast, Fraser Island: Archaeological Survey & Management Plan. Qld DEH, M’borough. 3 Vols, 480pp.
1994 Archaeological Survey of Blackdown Tableland: Sites, Significance and Management Recommendations. Report prepared for Qld DEH, Rockhampton. 94pp. (with S. Davies and L. Lamb)
1994 Booral: Cultural Heritage Management Plan. Qld DEH, Maryborough. 111pp.
1994 Condah and Macarthur District Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Routes: Stage II Archaeological Survey and Impact Assessment. Report prepared for Telecom, Melbourne. 17pp. (with L. Russell)
1994 Condah and Macarthur District Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Routes: An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telecom, Melbourne. 22pp. (with L. Russell)
1994 Numurkah-Naringaningalook-Katamatite Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Route: An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telecom, Melbourne. 22pp. (with L. Russell)
1994 Coleraine-Paschendale-Merino-Digby-Tahara Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Route: An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telecom, Melbourne. 34pp. (L. Russell)
1994 St. Arnaud to Redbank and Moonambel T.O. to Moonabel Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Routes (central west Victoria): Stage II Archaeological Survey & Impact Assessment. Report for Telecom, Melbourne. 18pp.
1994 St. Arnaud to Redbank and Moonambel T.O. to Moonabel Telecom Optical Fibre Cable Routes (central west Victoria): An Assessment of the Potential Impact on Cultural Heritage Sites. Report prepared for Telecom, Melbourne. 24pp. (with L. Russell)
1993 Corroboree Beach, Fraser Island: Archaeological Survey and Management Plan. Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Maryborough. 3 Vols, 470pp.
1993 Long Flat Scarred Trees: Heritage Assessment. Qld DEH, Maryborough. 25pp.
1992 Cultural Heritage Management Plan: Great Sandy Region, Southeastern Queensland. Report prepared for Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Brisbane. 79pp.
1990 A Preliminary Assessment of the Aboriginal and European Cultural Heritage of Wallace Estate, Noosaville, SE Qld. Report prepared for Jones, Flint and Pike (Qld) Pty Ltd, Brisbane. 60pp. (with A. Stewart-Zerba)
1988 Salvage Surface Collection and Excavation of Archaeological Materials from the Proposed Twin Waters Resort Site, Mouth of the Maroochy River, SE Qld. Report for Max Winders and Associates, Brisbane. 29pp.
1988 A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Northwest Mungana Prospect (ML 4271), via Chillagoe, North Queensland. Report prepared for Elders Resources Ltd, Cairns. 19pp.
1988 A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Twin Waters Resort at the Mouth of the Maroochy River, Southeast Queensland. Report prepared for Max Winders and Associates, Brisbane. 31pp.
1988 The Archaeological Status and Potential of the Inskip Point Peninsula and Southwest Tin Can Bay Area in Relation to a Proposed Tourist Resort and Associated Airport Complex, Southeast Queensland. Report prepared for Max Winders and Associates, Brisbane. 16pp.
1987 A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Northshore Tourist Resort & Associated Airport Complex, S. Cooloola, SE Qld. Report prepared for Maunsell & Partners Pty Ltd, Brisbane. 27pp.
1986 A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Cracow Gold Mine (ML186), Cracow, Southeast Queensland. Report prepared for Costain Australia Ltd, Brisbane. 18pp.
1986 A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of a Proposed Housing Estate near Dohles Rocks on the North Bank of the North Pine River. Report prepared for Winders, Barlow and Morrison, Brisbane. 19pp.
1984 Final Report to the Australian Heritage Commission on the Qld Aboriginal Research Consultancy. 29pp.
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