Research notes, 1944-1996

Component identifier:

Series 5

Content Summary:

Research files, including correspondence, notes, research material, photographs, reports, printed material and other papers.

These files contain information collected for articles and other publications by Mulvaney concerning sites, collections, people and other topics chiefly relating to the study of Australian prehistory. There are papers relating to sites such as Keilor, Kow Swamp, Lake Mungo, Pine Gap, Warrnambool and Weipa, people such as Rhys Jones, F.D. McCarthy, George Augustus Robinson, Alan Thorne and Norman Tindale, and subjects such as Aboriginal economy, carbon dating, ceremonial exchange, hunting and gathering and rock art.

Among the major correspondents are Val Attenbrow, Diane Barwick, Ralph Bulmer, Dermot Casey, Lord Casey, John Chappell, Athol Chase, Grahame Clark, Eleanor Crosby, Charles Dortch, Robert Edwards, A.P. Elkin, Josephine Flood, Brian Ford, Jane Forge, Derek Freeman, Bill Gammage, H.C. Giese, Edmund D. Gill, Jack Golson, Sylvia Hallam, Rex Harcourt, Peter Hiscock, Frank Lewins, Stuart Macintyre, Campbell Macknight, Phil Macumber, Isabel McBryde, F.D. McCarthy, Betty Meehan, Virendra Misra, Hallam L. Movius Jr, E.E. Payne, Graeme Pretty, Peter Read, Andrée Rosenfeld, Charles Rowley, John Sherwood, Wilhelm G. Solheim II, Helmut Straube, Peter Sutton, Norman Tindale and Alan West.

Further material relating to Mulvaney's fieldwork at particular sites is included in Series 8.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original instalment of this collection (MS 9615) was donated by Professor Mulvaney under the Cultural Gifts Program in September 1999. Further instalments were received in 2013 and 2017.

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