Mate, Geraldine (2014) Streets and stamper batteries: an 'industrial' landscape of gold mining townships in nineteenth-century Queensland. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 32. pp. 47-55.

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Abstract

Gold exploration and mining in late nineteenth-century Queensland led to the development of many small, ephemeral mining townships. These townships had distinctive social landscapes, informed by the cultural values of nineteenth-century regional communities with a recursive relationship between the social and industrial landscape (both physical and cultural). The townscape itself was an active component in the construction and perpetuation of social identity within the mining towns and constructions were further informed by the overpowering influence of the mining landscape. The mining town of Mount Shamrock is used as an example of the application of such a landscape perspective enabling a complex and fine-grained picture of the construction of social identity in the historical landscapes of mining towns to emerge.

Item ID:	36257
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1322-9214
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2014 00:33
FoR Codes:	21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 2101 Archaeology > 210108 Historical Archaeology (incl Industrial Archaeology) @ 100%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9505 Understanding Past Societies > 950503 Understanding Australias Past @ 100%
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