Completed research theses by students affiliated with TARL and supervised by TARL staff and adjuncts
Katherine Cameron (PhD, James Cook University) Ancient Ceramics at Vilabouly: Pottery Production and Society in Laos
Sarah Collins (PhD, James Cook University) Old Smithfield Township, Cairns, 1876-1879: Revealing the Material Life of a Nineteenth Century Community in Tropical North Queensland
Daniel England (MPhil, James Cook University) For A Few Horses More: The Role of Domesticated Livestock in the Development of North Queensland
Cailey Ailsa Maclaurin (Honours, James Cook University) Investigating People-Reef Interactions Across the Mid-to-Late Holocene Using Morphometric Analysis of Top Shell (Rochia nilotica), Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group), Northeast Australia
Sarah Morgan (Honours, James Cook University) Deep Time Sea Urchin Use and Engagement on Jiigurru (Lizard Island Group, Great Barrier Reef): An Examination of Archaeological Quantification and Taxonomic Identification Protocols
Jessica Hurst (Honours, James Cook University) Skeletons in Boxes: Exploring Ethical Concerns Surrounding the Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Research and Teaching
Jaimi Kitchen (Honours, James Cook University) The Forgotten Graves: A Closer Look into the Cemeteries of Previous Pioneer Settlements of the Kennedy District
Samantha Cranwell (Honours, James Cook University) Analysing the Queensland Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003: How Effective has this Legislation been in Protecting Aboriginal Cultural Heritage?
Georgina Skelly (Honours, James Cook University) Sea-Level Change and Palaeolandscapes: Investigating Submerged Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in Trinity Bay, Far North Queensland
Philip Torcato (Honours, James Cook University) Pre Khmer-Empire Exchange Routes: Linking Cambodia and NE Thailand
Helen Ball (Honours, James Cook University) A Pottery Rim Form and Petrographic Analysis at Dvaravati in Northeast Thailand in the Proto-Historic Period: Technologies and Culture Transfer from Central and North Thailand seen in the Archaeological Ceramics
Daniel England (Grad. Dip., James Cook University) Living Next Door to Alice: An Archaeological Examination of the Role a Landscape Played in Connecting Townsville to Riches and the Effect on Regional Identity
Redbird Ferguson (Honours, James Cook University) Insights from the daily grind: examining grinding tools from Late-Lapita settlement on Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga
Sarah Slater (MSocSci, James Cook University) Novel Shell Site Expressions: Archaeological Mud Shell (Geloina expansa) on Kaiadilt Country, South Wellesley Islands
Tanya Drury (Honours, James Cook University) Geochemical and Technological Approaches to Understanding the Manufacture and Distribution of Silcrete Artefacts in the South Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria
Tim Russell (Honours, James Cook University) Submarine Squatters on the North Queensland Coast: An Archaeological Study of Commercial Dugong Fisheries Utilising a Seascape Approach
Sandra Boswell (MSocSci, James Cook University) Laos Decorated Terracotta Pottery from Lan Xang Period: What Can the Decorative Symbols Tell Us?
Sarah Collins (Honours, James Cook University) Scratched Surfaces: Dialogic Remains of Tangible and Ephemeral European Inscription across the Palimpsest Landscape of Sweers Island
Graeme Cotter (Honours, James Cook University) Trampling Pots and Shells: Understanding the Impacts of Trampling on Cultural Materials in Coastal Archaeological Sites
Holly Gill (Honours, James Cook University) The Organic Technologies of Vilabouly: A Study on Prehistoric Basketry in an Upland Mining Community, Laos, Southeast Asia
Peter Griffin (Honours, James Cook University) How was Copper being Smelted at the Vilabouly Complex in Prehistory?
Samuel Lansdown (Honours, James Cook University) The Significance of Xieng Khouang Province during the Laotian Lan Xang Period (1354-1707 CE): An Excavation at Wat Ban Vieng
Anna Kreij (MSocSci, James Cook University) A Spatial Analytical Approach to Indigenous Fishtraps: Using High-Resolution UAS Photogrammetry and GIS in the Investigation of Kaiadilt Aboriginal Stone-Walled Intertidal Fishtraps, Gulf of Carpentaria [Awarded Richard Brookdale Scholarship] [Awarded AACAI Student Support Fund Award] [Awarded the Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory Prize] [Awarded the Academic Medal]
Markus Zuercher (MSocSci, James Cook University) Lost But Not Forgotten: The Application of Multidisciplinary Methods for Locating Unmarked Graves at Pentland (QLD) Cemetery
Alison Fitzpatrick (Honours, James Cook University) Stone Arrangements in the Lizard Island Group: A Study of Indigenous Seascapes in Northeastern Australia [Awarded the Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory Prize]
Karen Thornton (Honours, James Cook University) Gender and Agency: Organising Principles when Investigating Objects in the Archaeological Record
Lauren Whiteford (Honours, James Cook University) Contextualised Case Studies of Individuals from Prei Khmeng: Life and Society Change in Northwest Cambodia
Samantha Aird (Honours, James Cook University) Assessing Mid-to-Late Holocene Predation of Conomurex luhuanus and Tectus niloticus at Lizard Island, Northeastern Australia [Awarded Richard Brookdale Scholarship] [Awarded the Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory Prize]
Felise Goldfinch (Honours, James Cook University) Of Bananas and !Shields: Rock Art in the Townsville Region
Emily Holt (Honours, James Cook University) The Climate and Depositional Setting of Australopithecus sediba at Malapa, South Africa
Ashlee Litfin (Honours, James Cook University) A Minero-Petrographic Study to source the Manufacture and Distribution of Stone Bangles found at Ban Non Wat, Thailand
Catherine Livingston (Honours, James Cook University) Who were the people of ancient Vilabouly? Exploring origins and relationships through the study of Ge
Emma Rehn (Honours, James Cook University) An Analysis of the Risk Hypothesis and its Application to Hunter-Gatherer Toolkits Using an Australian Dataset
Samuel Ward (Honours, James Cook University) Hidden Landscape: The search for Chinatown in Townsville
Katherine Cameron (Honours, James Cook University) Periphery to Centre: Social and Cultural Change over Time at Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand
Catherine Hays (Honours, James Cook University) Exchange of Items or Ideas? Current Implications of the Torres Strait Pottery
Texas Nagel (Honours, James Cook University) Using Foraminifera to Refine Understandings of Archaeological Site Formation Processes: A Case Study from Thundiy, Bentinck Island, Southern Gulf of Carpentaria [Awarded Ironbark Heritage/AACAI Student Support Fund Award] [Awarded Association for Environmental Archaeology John Evans Undergraduate Dissertation Prize] [Awarded the Tropical Archaeology Research Laboratory Prize]
Annette Oertle (Honours, James Cook University) Connections across the Sea: Characterising Macassan Activities in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria
Grace Tipping (Honours, James Cook University) Communities and Archaeology in a Postcolonial World
Cameo Dalley (PhD, The University of Queensland) An Ethnoarchaeological Investigation of the Social Factors Shaping the Marine Subsistence Strategies of Lardil and Kaiadilt Aboriginal People of the Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria
Jane Hinton (Honours, University of Queensland) Using Archaeological Shell Assemblages for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction: Preliminary Isotope Analysis of Polymesoda (Geloina) coaxans (Gmelin, 1791) from Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria [Awarded The Blue Mountains Honours Prize in Archaeology]
Stephen Nichols (PhD, The University of Queensland) Public or Perish: An Ethnographic Study of Archaeology in a Southeast Queensland Community
Daniel Rosendahl (PhD, The University of Queensland) The Way it Changes Like the Shoreline and the Sea: The Archaeology of the Sandalwood River, Mornington Island, Southeast Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Brent Taylor (Honours, James Cook University) Memorialisation of War: Ban Dong Soen, Savannakhet Region, Laos: Vietnam Battle Site Museum
Antonino Tucci (Honours, James Cook University) Uncovering an Ancient Occupation: A Study of Social Organisation at the Khanong Iron Age Copper Mining Site Located at Sepon, Laos
Luke Keogh (PhD, The University of Queensland) The Storied Landscape: A Queensland Collection
Karen Murphy (PhD, The University of Queensland) Domesticity and Industrialism at Mill Point
Owen Powell (PhD, The University of Queensland) Warrego Country: Water, People, Landscape
Camille Tanner (Honours, James Cook University) Defining Archaeological Correlates for Social Complexity: Three Sites in Thailand
Lansdown, S. 2016 The Significance of Xieng Khouang Province during the Laotian Lan Xang Period (1354-1707 CE): An Excavation at Wat Ban Vieng. Honours thesis, James Cook University.
