Torres Strait Archaeology and Material Culture (Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series: Volume 3, Part 1)

Contents:
Torres Strait bepotaim: an overview of archaeological and ethnoarchaeological investigations and research;
An Islander world: new approaches to managing the archaeological heritage of Torres Strait, northeast Australia;
Material culture collections and research from Torres Strait;
Torres Strait marine subsistence specialisation and terrestrial animal translocation;
The Murray Islands Archaeological Project: excavations on Mer and Dauar eastern Torres Strait;
Meriam ethnoarchaeology: shellfishing and shellmiddens;
Western Torres Strait cultural history project: research design and initial results;
Kabadul Kula rock-art site, Dauan Island, Torres Strait;
Early historical sources for the top western islands in the western Torres Strait exchange network;
Torres Strait and the origin of large stone axes from Kiwai Island, Fly River estuary (Papua New Guinea);
Stone club head manufacture on Dauan Island, Torres Strait;
Torres Strait origin of some stone-headed clubs from the Torassi or Bensbach River area, southwest Papua New Guinea;
The post-contact created environment in the Torres Strait Central Islands;
An assessment of selected shipwrecks in Torres Strait and far north Great Barrier Reef;
Archaeology of the pearlshellin industry in Torres Strait;
Japanese pearlers' bath-house, Thursday Island, Torres strait;