Recovering convict lives : a historical archaeology of the Port Arthur penitentiary / Richard Tuffin, David Roe, Sylvana Szydzik, E. Jeanne Harris, and Ashley Matic
- Bib ID:
- 8625347
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tuffin, Richard, author
- Uniform Title:
- Recovering convict lives : a historical archaeology of the Port Arthur penitentiary (Online)
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Sydney] : Sydney University Press, 2021
- ©2021
- 1 online resource : colour illustrations, maps, portraits.
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 32.2MB
- ISBN:
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- 1743327838
- 1743327846
- 9781743327838
- 9781743327845
- Series:
- Studies in Australasian historical archaeology.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of Access: Available online.
- Summary:
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The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind - the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards - this book tells their stories.
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- Title from title screen.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 24, 2021)
- Subject:
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- Correctional institutions -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History
- Correctional institutions -- Tasmania -- History
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Port Arthur (Tas.)
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Tasmania -- Port Arthur
- Prisons -- Australia -- Port Arthur (Tas.) -- History
- Prisons -- Tasmania -- Port Arthur -- History
- Correctional institutions
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Prisons
- Port Arthur (Tas.) -- History
- Tasmania -- Port Arthur
- Tasmania
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