Landscapes of production and punishment: LiDAR and the process of feature identification and analysis at a Tasmanian convict station

Tuffin, Richard; Roe, David; Gibbs, Martin; Clark, Donald W.; Clark, Marcus

doi:10.1080/03122417.2020.1749406

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“…Similar forms of analysis can be used to explore the ways in which the deployment of convict labour impacted upon the landscape. Archaeological survey combined with the analysis of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) remote sensing has been successfully employed to reveal the physical traces of convict labour (Tuffin, Roe, Gibbs, Clark, & Clark, 2020). Such sites include quarries, clay pits, sawpits, roadways, tramlines and buildings.…”

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Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania

Cowley

Frost

Inwood

et al. 2021

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This article describes the formation of The Tasmanian Historical Dataset a longitudinal data resource spanning the 19th and early 20th century. This resource contains over 1.6 million records drawn from digitised prison and hospital admission registers, military enlistment papers, births, deaths and marriages, census and muster records, arrival and departure lists, bank accounts and property valuations, maps and plans and meteorological observations. As well as providing an account of the many different sources that have been digitised coded and linked as part of this initiative, the article outlines current and past research uses to which this data has been put. Further information on tables and key variables is provided in an appendix.

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Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania

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Inwood

et al. 2021

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At the Edge of Space: The Archaeology of Boundaries within a Landscape for Young Convicts

D’Gluyas,

Tuffin,

Gibbs

et al. 2024

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Within a landscape, boundaries are the physically or socially defined lines that mark the limits of spaces. They can appear static and binary, and therefore analytically restricted. Yet it is argued here that while space is often analyzed in archaeology to inform social, economic, or institutional interpretations of a landscape, the analysis of boundaries is a complimentary method that captures movement, control, and prohibition mechanisms. Analyzing boundaries is shown to reveal aspects of change – sometimes diachronic and sometimes ephemeral – and a malleability that is often linked to materiality. The examination of the early nineteenth-century historical boundaries of Point Puer, a juvenile convict prison (1834–49) located in lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia, is used as a case study to illustrate their common archaeological forms. It is reasoned that the analysis of boundaries contributes dynamic interpretations of historical landscapes by theorizing boundaries as spatial frameworks to examine social and experiential elements of space.

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An Historical Archaeology of Labor in Convict Australia: A Framework for Engagement

Gibbs,

Tuffin,

Roe

2023

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Between 1788 and 1868 Britain transported some 171,000 male and female convicted felons to Australia, in the process establishing the foundation European population and instituting a process of invasion and colonization. The convict “system” remains a signature theme in Australian historical and archaeological research, contributing to a multitude of areas of investigation: punishment and reform, colonialism, and colonization process, as well as social aspiration and cultural transformation. This article provides an overview of the history, organization, and physical structure of the system. It then describes recent efforts to reunify the trajectories of archaeology, history, and historical criminology through cross-disciplinary projects, questions, and themes. It includes a description of the authors’ Landscapes of Production and Punishment research framework, which views the organization and administration of the convict system, as well as the shifting balances between punishment and reform, through a labor-systems analysis. This line of inquiry broadens the scope of archaeological interest away from its focus on prisons and institutional sites. It embraces a wider range of labor settings and products, including the dispersal of convicts across urban and frontier areas, and the operational logic behind the system. It also views the convicts both as individuals and a labor force, and the raw materials, roads, buildings, and other items they extracted, constructed, or manufactured equally as “products” of the regime.

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Landscapes of production and punishment: LiDAR and the process of feature identification and analysis at a Tasmanian convict station

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania

Reconstructing a Longitudinal Dataset for Tasmania

At the Edge of Space: The Archaeology of Boundaries within a Landscape for Young Convicts

An Historical Archaeology of Labor in Convict Australia: A Framework for Engagement

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