Project News
Landscapes of Punishment and Production
ARC Project 2017–2019
Timelapse video of the Port Arthur excavation (on right)
— courtesy of PAHSMA.
When is a cat not a real cat
UNE archaeology students put sophisticated sensing equipment to a grisly use during a recent visit to the Port Arthur Historic Site, testing three cat-o'-nine tails for human flesh.
Posted 25 Jul 2018
ARC Project Update: data entry progress
To date, all the data pertaining to convicts who arrived on roughly fifty ships has been completed. Targeting those convicts who are known to have served at Port Arthur at some point, the data not only provides valuable insights into the nature life and labour on the penal settlement, and also reveals the broader punishment histories of individuals before and after their time there.
Posted 23 Mar 2018
Data and Digitisation: The Virtual Dig Continues
Over the last month the project team has been georeferencing numerous historic maps and plans to create a spatial representation of changes to Port Arthur’s landscape during the convict period.
Posted 10 Nov 2017
ARC Project Update: georeferencing of historic maps
Over the last month the project team has been georeferencing numerous historic maps and plans to create a spatial representation of changes to Port Arthur’s landscape during the convict period.
Posted 18 Aug 2017
ARC Project Update — collecting historical documents and data
The early phases of the Landscapes of Production and Punishment project hinge on the collection and collation of historical documents and data.
Posted 07 Jun 2017
ARC Project Planning
A series of meetings of the project team at Port Arthur and Hobart in the week beginning 20 March clarified the scope and outcomes of the project.
Posted 06 Apr 2017
Digging into Port Arthur’s Industrial Past
The grim histories of Port Arthur and the Tasman Peninsula through their decades as Tasmania’s dog-guarded convict gulag are being given new layers of meaning in an ambitious project led from the University of New England (UNE).
Posted 27 Mar 2017
Project Partners Meeting at UNE
Planning and initiating the project's first phase: A focus on complex industrial aspects of the World Heritage-listed Port Arthur site and the Tasman Peninsula.
Posted 20 Mar 2017