Tim Murray
Tim Murray until recently was Charles La Trobe Professor of Archaeology at La Trobe University where he had been teaching since 1986. Murray is now Emeritus Professor at La Trobe and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
He also taught archaeology at Sydney, Cambridge, Leiden, Paris 1, Göteborg (Sweden), the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), the Nordic Archaeology Institute, and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of NSW. He has published over 30 books, among the most recent being Tim Murray and Penny Crook 2019 Exploring the Archaeology of Immigration and the Modern City in Nineteenth century Australia. New York: Springer; Tim Murray et al. 2019 The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne: A Historical Archaeology. Sydney: Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology; a volume of essays on the history of archaeology: From Antiquarian to Archaeologist: the history and philosophy of archaeology. Barnsley: Pen and Sword:, 2014; a single volume history of Archaeology, Milestones in Archaeology (ABC-Clio, 2007), and many book chapters and journal articles. His current field research is focused on a major research project, Building Transnational Archaeologies of the Modern World 1750-1950, which compares domestic assemblages from sites in Melbourne, Sydney and London to write new social histories of migrant populations. He is also actively involved in e-humanities research into managing large archaeological data bases.He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Address: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
He also taught archaeology at Sydney, Cambridge, Leiden, Paris 1, Göteborg (Sweden), the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), the Nordic Archaeology Institute, and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of NSW. He has published over 30 books, among the most recent being Tim Murray and Penny Crook 2019 Exploring the Archaeology of Immigration and the Modern City in Nineteenth century Australia. New York: Springer; Tim Murray et al. 2019 The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne: A Historical Archaeology. Sydney: Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology; a volume of essays on the history of archaeology: From Antiquarian to Archaeologist: the history and philosophy of archaeology. Barnsley: Pen and Sword:, 2014; a single volume history of Archaeology, Milestones in Archaeology (ABC-Clio, 2007), and many book chapters and journal articles. His current field research is focused on a major research project, Building Transnational Archaeologies of the Modern World 1750-1950, which compares domestic assemblages from sites in Melbourne, Sydney and London to write new social histories of migrant populations. He is also actively involved in e-humanities research into managing large archaeological data bases.He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Address: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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some of its legacies, which have continued into contemporary archaeological theory and practice. In doing so, I trace the impact of race theory and long-running discussions about human nature and the meanings of cultural diversity, which have been a feature of history and philosophy since the Enlightenment, and the proposal of Counter-Enlightenment thinking. A particular feature of this discussion is to stress the importance of continuing inquiries into the plausibility of archaeological reasoning.
of the Scottish scientist Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), and cuts across several
significant elements of his life as a researcher committed to uncovering
the history of life on earth.2 Most famous among archaeologists for his
work at Brixham Cave (but also in Gibraltar and Sicily) and his debunking
of the ‘ancient’ jaw from Moulin Quignon, Falconer’s extraordinary range
of research interests extended from documenting the Tertiary fauna of
the Himalayas to overseeing the introduction of tea to India (and are very
well represented in the banners produced by the Falconer Museum in
Forres, Scotland)3. Who else would have species as diverse as the Markhor
of Central Asia (the spiral horned goat Capra Falconer), the bamboo
(Himalayacalamus falconeri) and the rhododendron (Rhododendron
Falconeri) named after them?
discuss the place of the Tasmanians in the
development of our understanding of early
human history, and in the historiography of
Australian prehistoric archaeology - both subjects
deserving of much more intensive
treatment than they will receive here (but see
e.g. Mulvaney 1958; 1981; 1985; 1988; Murray
in press a; Smith 1960). Apart from noting that
there seems to be an almost inexhaustible
supply of quotable quotes about Aboriginal
Tasmanians (and Australian Aboriginal people
in general) - indeed, the better you know the
byways of 19th-century anthropological and
archaeological literature, the richer the payoff -
I will focus discussion on the fact that archaeologists
(and anthropologists) have always been
able to construct the Tasmanians to suit prevailing
fashion.
some of its legacies, which have continued into contemporary archaeological theory and practice. In doing so, I trace the impact of race theory and long-running discussions about human nature and the meanings of cultural diversity, which have been a feature of history and philosophy since the Enlightenment, and the proposal of Counter-Enlightenment thinking. A particular feature of this discussion is to stress the importance of continuing inquiries into the plausibility of archaeological reasoning.
of the Scottish scientist Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), and cuts across several
significant elements of his life as a researcher committed to uncovering
the history of life on earth.2 Most famous among archaeologists for his
work at Brixham Cave (but also in Gibraltar and Sicily) and his debunking
of the ‘ancient’ jaw from Moulin Quignon, Falconer’s extraordinary range
of research interests extended from documenting the Tertiary fauna of
the Himalayas to overseeing the introduction of tea to India (and are very
well represented in the banners produced by the Falconer Museum in
Forres, Scotland)3. Who else would have species as diverse as the Markhor
of Central Asia (the spiral horned goat Capra Falconer), the bamboo
(Himalayacalamus falconeri) and the rhododendron (Rhododendron
Falconeri) named after them?
discuss the place of the Tasmanians in the
development of our understanding of early
human history, and in the historiography of
Australian prehistoric archaeology - both subjects
deserving of much more intensive
treatment than they will receive here (but see
e.g. Mulvaney 1958; 1981; 1985; 1988; Murray
in press a; Smith 1960). Apart from noting that
there seems to be an almost inexhaustible
supply of quotable quotes about Aboriginal
Tasmanians (and Australian Aboriginal people
in general) - indeed, the better you know the
byways of 19th-century anthropological and
archaeological literature, the richer the payoff -
I will focus discussion on the fact that archaeologists
(and anthropologists) have always been
able to construct the Tasmanians to suit prevailing
fashion.
and, as such, it is very much a product of an earlier project, Encyclopedia
of Archaeology (1999–2001), which was also published by ABC-CLIO. Having
said this, I have to admit (not without some irony) that Milestones was commissioned
before the five-volume encyclopedia that precedes it. This reversal
of sequence has had a significant impact on the shape and content of
Milestones, which is now considerably changed from my original conception.
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