Publications

The following publications derive from the Archaeology of the Queensland NMP project:

• Pagels, A., H. Burke, L.A. Wallis and B. Barker 2023 Weapons of the Frontier Wars: Firearms and ammunition of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 26:17–38. DOI: 10.25120/qar.26.2023.4022.
• Brien, E., L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, Y.L. Perston, L. Bogdanek, T. Rogers, T. Rice, P. Eatts, R. Jansen and V. Levchenko 2023 The distribution, chronology, and significance of late Holocene aged stone-based structures on Pitta Pitta Country, western Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 26:1–16. DOI: 10.25120/qar.26.2023.4019.
• Grguric, N., H. Burke, N. Cole, L.A. Wallis, E. Hatte and B. Barker 2023 The discipline of dress: Uniform buttons and accessories of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland, 1852–1929. Historical Archaeology. DOI: 10.1007/s41636-023-00405-3.
• Burke, H., L.A. Wallis, N. Hadnutt, I. Davidson, K. Ellwood, S. Fogarty and L. Sullivan 2023 The difficult, divisive and disruptive heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police. Memory Studies. DOI: 10.1177/175069802311703.
• Maloney, T.R., L.A. Wallis, I. Davidson, B. Barker, H. Burke, D. Melville and G. Jacks 2022 Stone tool technologies from a stone hut and stone arrangement complex in Pitta Pitta Country, western Queensland. Australian Archaeology 88(2):180–199. DOI:
  10.1080/03122417.2022.2082001.
• Burke, H., L.A.Wallis, I. Davidson, E. Hatte and B. Barker 2021 The shape of absence: Community archaeology and the heritage of the Queensland Native Mounted Police, Australia Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage 9(2):120–133. DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2021.1996155.
• Perston, Y., L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, C. McLennan, E. Hatte and B. Barker 2021 Flaked glass artifacts from nineteenth century Native Mounted Police camps in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. DOI: 10.1007/s10761-021-00624-5.
• Burke, H., R. Kerkhove, L.A. Wallis, C. Keys and B. Barker 2021 Nervous nation: Fear, conflict and narratives of fortified domestic architecture on the Queensland frontier. Aboriginal History 44:21–57. DOI: 10.22459/AH.44.2020.02
• Wallis, L.A., B. Barker, H. Burke, M. Dardengo, R. Jansen, D. Melville, G. Jacks, A. Pagels, A. Schaefer and I. Davidson 2021 Huts and stone arrangements at Hilary Creek, western Queensland: Recent fieldwork at an Australian Aboriginal site complex. Queensland Archaeological Research 24. DOI: 10.25120/qar.24.2021.3799
• Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, B. Barker and N. Cole 2021 Fatal frontier: Temporal and spatial considerations of the Native Mounted Police and colonial violence across Queensland. In I. McNiven and B. David (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Australia and New Guinea. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190095611.013.40
• Wallis, L.A., H. Burke and M. Dardengo 2021 A comprehensive online database about the Native Mounted Police and frontier conflict in Queensland. Journal of Genocide Research. DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2020.1862489
• Barker, B., L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, N. Cole, K. Lowe, U. Artym, A. Pagels, L. Bateman, E. Hatte, C. De Leiuen, I. Davidson and L. Zimmerman 2020 The archaeology of the ‘Secret War’: the material evidence of conflict on the Queensland frontier 1849–1901. Queensland Archaeological Research 23:25–41.
• Cole, N., L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, B. Barker and Rinyirru Aboriginal Corporation 2020 ‘On the brink of a fever stricken swamp’: culturally modified trees and land-people relationships at the Boralga Native Mounted Police camp, Cape York Peninsula. Australian Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1749371
• Burke, H., B. Barker, L.A. Wallis, S. Craig and M. Combo 2020 Betwixt and between: trauma, survival and the Aboriginal troopers of the Queensland Native Mounted Police. Journal of Genocide Research. DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2020.1735147
• Davidson, I., H. Burke, L. Sullivan, L.A. Wallis, U. Artym and B. Barker 2020 Cultural conflict in text and materiality: the impact of words and lead on the northwest Queensland colonial frontier. World Archaeology. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1711153
• Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, N. Cole and B Barker 2019 Archaeology and the teaching of frontier conflict in Australia. Teaching History June 2019:6–10.
• Davidson, I., H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2018 Connecting Myall Creek and the Wonomo. In J. Lydon and L. Ryan (eds), Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, pp. 100-111. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.
• Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, B. Barker, N. Cole, L. Bateman, U. Artym, T. Pagels, and E. Hatte 2018 The Archaeology of the ‘Secret War’ in Colonial Queensland, 1849 to 1904. Signals 124:14–19.
• Burke, H., B. Barker, N. Cole, L.A. Wallis, E. Hatte, I. Davidson and K. Lowe 2018 The Queensland Native Police and strategies of recruitment on the Queensland frontier 1849–1901.  Journal of Australian Studies 2018:1-17.
  
• Lowe, K.M., N. Cole, H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, E. Hatte and Rinyirru Aboriginal Corporation 2018 The archaeological signature of ‘ant bed’ mound floors in the northern tropics of Australia: case study on the Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York Peninsula. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports19:686–700.
• Burke, H., L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, M. Tutty, N. Cole, I. Davidson, E. Hatte and K. Lowe 2017 The homestead as fortress: fact or folklore? Aboriginal History 40:151–177.

The following student theses or major reports derive from the Archaeology of the Qld NMP project:

• Bateman, L. 2020 Aboriginal-European Interaction on the Queensland Frontier: An Archaeological Study of the Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York Peninsula. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.
• Pagels, A. 2023 Life from the Debris: Artefacts from the Native Mounted Police, 1849 to the Early 1900s. Unpublished Masters of Archaeology thesis, Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide.
• Pagels, A. 2019 Weapons of the Queensland Native Mounted Police 1859-1904.  Unpublished report prepared for ARCH8404 Directed Study in Archaeology graduate topic in the Department of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide.
• Artym, U.F. 2018 Profiling the Police: Exploring Officer-Trooper Interactions in the Queensland Native Mounted Police.  Unpublished BArch(Hons) thesis, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide.

Previous papers of direct relevance written by members of the research teams:

• Barker, B. 2007 Massacre, frontier conflict and Australian archaeology. Australian Archaeology 64:9-14.
• Cole, N. 2004 Battle Camp to Boralga: a local study of colonial war on Cape York Peninsula, 1873–1894. Aboriginal History 28:156-189.
• Cole, N. 2010 Painting the police: Aboriginal visual culture and identity in colonial Cape York Peninsula. Australian Archaeology 71:17-28.
• Cole, N., G. Musgrave, L. George, T. George and D. Banjo 2002 Community archaeology at Laura, Cape York Pensinsula. In S. Ulm, C. Westcott, J. Reid, A. Ross, I. Lilley, J. Prangnell and L. Kirkwood (eds), Barriers, Borders, Boundaries: Proceedings of the 2001 Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, pp.137-150. Tempus Volume 7. St Lucia: University of Queensland.
• Litster, M. and L.A. Wallis 2011 Looking for the proverbial needle? The archaeology of Australian colonial frontier massacres. Archaeology in Oceania 46:105-117.

And here is a non-peer-reviewed overview of the original project:

• Wallis, L.A., N. Cole, H. Burke, B. Barker, K. Lowe, I. Davidson and E. Hatte 2017 Rewriting the History of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Nulungu Insights 1. Broome: Nulungu Research Institute.

Conference presentations to date (January 2021) include:

• Pagels, A., H. Burke L.A. Wallis, B. Barker and N. Cole 2019 Weapons of the Queensland Native Mounted Police. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Gold Coast, December 2019.
• Barker, B., L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, N. Cole, K. Lowe, L. Bateman, U. Artym and A. Pagels 2019 The archaeology of the ‘Secret War’: the material evidence of conflict on the Queensland frontier 1849–1901. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Gold Coast, December 2019.
• Cole, N., L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, B. Barker and L. Harrigan 2019 Cooktown ironwoods in the Frontier War: archaeology of a unique assemblage of culturally modified trees at Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York Peninsula. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Gold Coast, December 2019.
• Wallis, L.A. H. Burke, B. Barker, N. Cole, L. Bateman, U. Artym, T. Pagels, A. Madden, E. Hatte, Col McLennan and Iain Davidson 2018 The archaeology of the ‘secret war’ in colonial Queensland, 1849 to 1904. Unpublished paper presented at the Archaeology of War conference, Sydney, June 2018.
• Burke, H., B. Barker, N. Cole, L.A. Wallis, I. Davidson and E. Hatte 2017 The Queensland Native Police and strategies of recruitment on the frontier 1849–1901. Unpublished paper presented at the AAS/ASA/ASAANZ 2017 Shifting States Conference, Adelaide, December 2017.
• Bateman, L., B. Barker, H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2017 Domesticity on the frontier: an investigation of daily life at a Queensland Native Police Camp. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
• Lowe, K.M., H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2017 The archaeological signature of ‘ant bed’ mound floors in the northern tropics of Australia: a case study on the Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York Peninsula. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
• Madden, A., K. Lowe, L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, B. Barker, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2017 Where crossroads meet: Investigating the spatio-temporal interactions of the Queensland Native Mounted Police and telegraphic communications. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
• Wallis, L.A., N. Cole, B. Barker, H. Burke, K. Lowe, I. Davidson and E. Hatte 2016 Rewriting the history of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Terrigal, December 2016.
• Cole, N., B. Barker, L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, I. Davidson, E. Hatte and K. Lowe 2016 An archaeological study of Indigenous and cross-cultural exchanges at Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York, Qld. Unpublished paper presented at the Colonial Formations: Connections and Collisions Conference, University of Wollongong, 25 November 2016.
• Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, B. Barker, K. Lowe, I. Davidson, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2016 The archaeology of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Unpublished paper presented in the Talking Heads Seminar Series, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia, 18 October 2016.
• Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, B. Barker, K. Lowe, I. Davidson, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2016 The archaeology of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Unpublished paper presented in the Working Paper in Archaeology seminar series at the University of Western Australia, 31 March 2016.