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AUSTRALIA
PAUL IRISH Paul has worked on a number of sites in the Sydney area, including midden sites on the Kurnell Peninsula, Sydney Harbour and Pittwater, and around southeastern Australia, including excavation and analysis of midden sites at Newcastle, Port Stephens and Jervis Bay. He has also worked at Weipa, north Queensland, doing archaeological survey work of the Weipa shell mounds. Paul has also conducted archaeolomalacological research in Denmark. His major archaeomalacological interests focus on site use patterns, seasonality determination, and the analysis of shell artefacts including fishhooks and beads. SEAN ULM Over the last 10 years, Sean has undertaken a variety of archaeological projects along the length of the Queensland coast, in the Torres Strait, and New Caledonia. His focus has been the elucidation of late Holocene culture change. These studies involve detailed analyses of excavated coastal faunal assemblages, particularly fish and shellfish remains, to investigate settlement and subsistence trajectories. Some of Sean's recent research has included the use of bivalve conjoin analysis to investigate aspects of site taphonomy, and the application of foraminiferal analyses to the problem of differentiating natural and cultural shell deposits. Another line of research focuses on determining local open-ocean versus estuary-specific marine reservoir effects impacting on the accuracy of radiocarbon dates using live-collected shellfish samples and shell/charcoal paired specimens. For a selection of Sean's publications, please refer to the publications page.
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