Digging Up a Past
eBook - PDF

Digging Up a Past

  1. 363 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Digging Up a Past

About this book

Known as a historian, conservationist, leading public intellectual, and, most famously, the "father of Australian archaeology," John Mulvaney is renowned for uncovering the depth of Australian human prehistory. This insightful and illuminating memoir traces Mulvaney's life from his childhood in rural Victoria to his revelatory excavations in central and northern Queensland and his securing of Australia's first World Heritage listings. Digging up the layers of his past and cataloguing the artifacts with the historical rigor and humanity that have defined his remarkable professional life, Mulvaney exposes the personal details of his struggles to have his work recognized and tells the stories of the inspirational people he has met along the way.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Tom Griffiths
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 A country youth
  9. 2 RAAF service
  10. 3 History recollected, 1946–51
  11. 4 An archaeologist abroad, 1951–53
  12. 5 Dawn of Australian archaeology, 1954–64
  13. 6 Adventures in archaeology, 1965–69
  14. 7 Globetrotting
  15. 8 1971–76 in retrospect
  16. 9 Museums and heritage
  17. 10 An English interlude, 1976–77
  18. 11 A surfeit of committees
  19. 12 A Harvard year, 1984–85
  20. 13 A rewarding retirement, 1986–89
  21. 14 The Australian Academy of the Humanities
  22. 15 Conferences and travel
  23. 16 Confrontations
  24. 17 Years with Jean, 1995–2004
  25. 18 Coda – archaeological retrospect
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index