The convict huts of Parramatta 1788–1841: an archaeological view of the development of an early Australian urban landscape

Shanahan, Madeline; Gibbs, Martin

doi:10.1080/00794236.2022.2058758

Post-Medieval Archaeology

2022

DOI: 10.1080/00794236.2022.2058758

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The convict huts of Parramatta 1788–1841: an archaeological view of the development of an early Australian urban landscape

Madeline Shanahan¹,

Martin Gibbs²

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

Gibbs,

Tuffin,

Roe

2023

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The Port Macquarie Settlement, New South Wales, 1821–1847: Interconnections within Landscapes of Convict Labor and Industry

Phillips,

Gibbs

2024

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This article explores the convict-punishment settlement of Port Macquarie on the mid-north coast of New South Wales between 1821 and 1847. Synthesizing previous and new historical and archaeological research, it identifies a range of major and minor sites of labor, accommodation, reform, and punishment within the settlement’s landscape during its period as a restricted convict prison from 1821 to 1830. From this it reconstructs the network of labor provision and infrastructure development, which we argue was not just about making the settlement economically self-sustaining, but also intended to create the framework for a transition to a “free” settlement. To this end this article also examines the ways in which that transformation occurred, with former sites of convict labor and the convicts themselves transitioning from government control to private settlers, until the withdrawal of the government infrastructure for convict management in 1847.

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Another pit, another post-hole: Are we learning anything new from Parramatta’s ‘convict hut’ sites?

D’Gluyas,

Cryerhall,

Jennings

2024

Australian Archaeology

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The convict huts of Parramatta 1788–1841: an archaeological view of the development of an early Australian urban landscape

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

The Port Macquarie Settlement, New South Wales, 1821–1847: Interconnections within Landscapes of Convict Labor and Industry

Another pit, another post-hole: Are we learning anything new from Parramatta’s ‘convict hut’ sites?

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