Fieldwork, 1955-1998

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Series 8

Content Summary:

Correspondence, grant applications, financial papers, notebooks, notes, research reports and articles, drawings, maps, plans and printed material relating to archaeological excavations by Mulvaney and others at sites in Australia and overseas. These papers largely concern financial and other arrangements for fieldwork; collection, dating and storage of archaeological specimens; documentation, conservation and management of heritage sites; relationships between researchers, landowners, funding bodies and other stakeholders; research findings; and other topics.

The papers date from Mulvaney's first Australian archaeological excavation at Fromm's Landing in South Australia in 1958. The papers then document later excavations, primarily in the 1960s, at Glenelg in south-western Victoria; Glen Aire in South Australia; Kenniff Cave and The Tombs sites in the Mt Moffat region, Queensland; various sites in the Northern Territory, including Gove, Kintore Cave and Ingaladdi; the Green Gully and Keilor sites in Victoria; and Lake Mungo and other sites within the Willandra Lakes region, New South Wales. There are also papers relating to fieldwork in Timor, and a 1969 expedition to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Research by others is documented in this series, including fieldwork conducted by Graeme Pretty at Roonka in South Australia in the late 1960s.

Among the major correspondents are Don Aitkin, Christopher Anderson, Gowan Armstrong, N.A.W. Ashton, Anne Bermingham, Geoffrey Blainey, Jim Bowler, C.W. Brazenor, W.J. Callow, Dermot Casey, R.M. Crawford, Eleanor Crosby, Tom Darragh, Josephine Flood, Brian Ford, Reg Ford, H.C. Giese, Edmund D. Gill, Jack Golson, Grant W. Greenward, Alan Hickinbotham, D.A. Holmes, Jeanette Hope, D.A. Johnstone, R.B. Joyce, R.B. Lansdown, Charles Lethbridge, N.W.G. Macintosh, Campbell Macknight, Ken Maddock, John Magee, Jack Mahoney, Isabel McBryde, D.F. McMichael, John McNally, Duncan Merrilees, John Morriston, Jeanette Muirhead, Norman H. Olver, Reg Orr, R.H. Pearce, Peter Pigott, Jamie Pittock, Henry Polach, Graeme Pretty, Wilfred Shawcross, D.R. Sheppard, Frank Strahan, F.L. Sutherland, Kingsley Sutton, Peter Sutton, R.D. Terrell, Rowl Twidale, Russel Ward, Eric Willmot, Bob Wren and R.V.S. Wright.

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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