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Natalie Blake
My major focus is on the archaeology of the late prehistoric period in the southeast Solomon Islands. I am working as part of 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’, with Dr Martin Gibbs as Chief Investigator. This project is in close collaboration with the Solomon Islands National Museum and local landowners.
I am looking at a range of cultural markers that have the potential to characterise the late prehistoric period in the southeast Solomon Islands with Mwanihuki, an abandoned village site on the northern coast on Makira as a case study. This site has a number of indicators that show the study area was the location of a highly populated area, with evidence of economic and social intensification in the late prehistoric period. The presence of 16th century Spanish pottery on the surface of the site, intermixed with a dense scatter of chert, along with worked and subsistence shell on a number of middens, as well as rectangular burial structures and house platforms provides a rich source of data to consider these themes.
Initial work was conducted here by Professor Roger Green and Michael W. Kaschko in the 1970s, recent excavations were conducted here in 2010 and 2011 and work is ongoing.
Supervisors: Martin Gibbs
I am looking at a range of cultural markers that have the potential to characterise the late prehistoric period in the southeast Solomon Islands with Mwanihuki, an abandoned village site on the northern coast on Makira as a case study. This site has a number of indicators that show the study area was the location of a highly populated area, with evidence of economic and social intensification in the late prehistoric period. The presence of 16th century Spanish pottery on the surface of the site, intermixed with a dense scatter of chert, along with worked and subsistence shell on a number of middens, as well as rectangular burial structures and house platforms provides a rich source of data to consider these themes.
Initial work was conducted here by Professor Roger Green and Michael W. Kaschko in the 1970s, recent excavations were conducted here in 2010 and 2011 and work is ongoing.
Supervisors: Martin Gibbs
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the bone identification process. Combining practical and academic knowledge, the manual also provides an introductory insight into zooarchaeological methodology and the importance of zooarchaeological research in understanding human behaviour through time.
the bone identification process. Combining practical and academic knowledge, the manual also provides an introductory insight into zooarchaeological methodology and the importance of zooarchaeological research in understanding human behaviour through time.