
Overview
Background
Caiti D'Gluyas is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Queensland and a researcher in archaeology, cultural heritage and history. In Australia her work examines the impacts and outcomes of British colonisation on people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly encompassing convictism and expressions of capitalism and ideology at different scales, from individuals to landscapes. Caiti has recently also been contributing to research on Bronze Age cultural and environmental change on the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia. She is also interested in environmental history, Indigenous experiences of the colonial world, landscape archaeology, historical studies of young people, more-than-human approaches, archaeological archives and data management, archaeological theory and methods, spatial analysis, Georgian period artefacts, and archaeological applications of GIS.
With more than 12 years practical experience on archaeological investigations, Caiti has worked on a variety of archaeological projects across Australia and further afield in the United Arab Emirates and Norfolk Island, in both research and industry settings. She worked for a decade in cultural heritage management and commercial archaeology, bringing key skills in project management, technical report writing and excavation to her current work. She maintains connections to the heritage management sector, in particular, through the synthesis of archaeological legacy projects from across colonial Australia. Caiti has prior experience teaching practical field skills, artefact analysis and introductory archaeology courses and currently teaches ARCS2050 Historical Archaeology and ARCS3118 Managing Cultural Heritage.
Availability
- Dr Caitlin D'Gluyas is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Humanities, University of New England Australia
Research interests
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Spatial analysis
Caiti has extensive experience in historical GIS, artefact spatial analysis and landscape archaeology. She combines these skills to consider the role of mapping and place in the past and place-making in past and present society. Her focus is on incorporating material culture and more-than-human approaches to map the flow of people, things and ideas across space.
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Material expressions of capitalism
Incorporating artefact analysis, legacy archaeological data and historical archaeological landscapes, Caiti is developing research projects across Australia that explore the ways that 'things' help us understand ideology, social relations, labour and economic outcomes in the modern world.
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Arabian Bronze Age climate, mobility and settlement patterns
Recent work in the United Arab Emirates has created opportunities to collaborate on exploring the intersection of climate, mobility and settlement patterns in this region. Through ongoing excavations, Caiti is interested in contributing to wider debates around the archaeological investigation of human responses to climate across the second millennium BCE.
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Historical archaeologies of marginalised groups
Caiti's doctoral research on a convict prison for youth has led to a strong interest in the archaeologies of marginalised groups, including women, children, First Nations people and migrants across colonial Australia. She is interested in the ways that archaeological evidence in particular contributes to research and also the role of archaeological theory in interpreting diverse experiences of the past.
Works
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2024
Conference Publication
A new programme of field research at Shimal, Ras al-Khaimah: Exploring human adaptations across the 2nd millennium BCE’
Weeks, Lloyd, Dusting, Amanda, D'Gluyas, Caitlin, Parker, Adrian, Parker, Adrian, Lindauer, Susanne, Fillios, Melanie, Üstünkaya, Cemre and Hazell, Guy (2024). A new programme of field research at Shimal, Ras al-Khaimah: Exploring human adaptations across the 2nd millennium BCE’. United Arab Emirates Archaeology Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 27-28 November 2024.
2024
Conference Publication
An object of analysis: incorporating ‘things’ from documentary sources in the Parramatta landscape
D'Gluyas, Caitlin (2024). An object of analysis: incorporating ‘things’ from documentary sources in the Parramatta landscape. Australasian Historical Archaeology Conference, Canberra, ACT Australia, 25-27 September 2024.
2024
Journal Article
Another pit, another post-hole: Are we learning anything new from Parramatta’s ‘convict hut’ sites?
D’Gluyas, Caitlin, Cryerhall, Abi and Jennings, Sophie (2024). Another pit, another post-hole: Are we learning anything new from Parramatta’s ‘convict hut’ sites?. Australian Archaeology, 90 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2024.2335418
2024
Conference Publication
Mapping people, labour and the movement of things in colonial Parramatta prior to 1825
D'Gluyas, Caitlin and Pitt, Nicholas (2024). Mapping people, labour and the movement of things in colonial Parramatta prior to 1825. Sydney Historical Archaeology Practitioners Workshop, Sydney, NSW Australia, 17 May 2024.
2024
Journal Article
At the Edge of Space: the Archaeology of Boundaries within a Landscape for Young Convicts
D’Gluyas, Caitlin, Tuffin, Richard, Gibbs, Martin and Roe, David (2024). At the Edge of Space: the Archaeology of Boundaries within a Landscape for Young Convicts. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 28 (3), 698-721. doi: 10.1007/s10761-024-00730-0
2023
Conference Publication
Reflecting on New Materialist archaeological contributions to institutional heritage sites
D'Gluyas, Caitlin and Szydzik, Sylvana (2023). Reflecting on New Materialist archaeological contributions to institutional heritage sites. Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 5-8 December 2023.
2023
Conference Publication
Measuring the Impact of Forced Labour in Colonial Australia on Adolescent Growth Patterns
Donald, Terrence, D'Gluyas, Caitlin, Inwood, Chris and Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (2023). Measuring the Impact of Forced Labour in Colonial Australia on Adolescent Growth Patterns. Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Washington, DC United States, 16-19 November 2023.
2023
Conference Publication
Assembled in Time: A New Materialist Colonial Parramatta
D'Gluyas, Caitlin, Cryerhall, Abi and Jennings, Sophie (2023). Assembled in Time: A New Materialist Colonial Parramatta. Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Mackay, QLD Australia, 19-23 September 2023.
2022
Conference Publication
Transformation through time: Exploring the temporality and liminality of a nineteenth century juvenile convict prison
D'Gluyas, Caitlin (2022). Transformation through time: Exploring the temporality and liminality of a nineteenth century juvenile convict prison. 5th International Conference for Carceral Geography, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 13-15 December 2022.
2022
Journal Article
Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW
D’Gluyas, Caitlin and Gibbs, Martin (2022). Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW. Australian Archaeology, 88 (2), 129-143. doi: 10.1080/03122417.2022.2046685
2021
Conference Publication
Criminal Boys in a Remote Landscape: The Archaeology of Point Puer (1834-1849), an Experimental Reform Institution in Colonial Australia
D'Gluyas, Caitlin (2021). Criminal Boys in a Remote Landscape: The Archaeology of Point Puer (1834-1849), an Experimental Reform Institution in Colonial Australia. Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Online, 18-22 October 2021.
2020
Journal Article
Juvenile convict labour and industry: the Point Puer landscape
D'Gluyas, Caitlin (2020). Juvenile convict labour and industry: the Point Puer landscape. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 22, 85-118. doi: 10.25952/ahd0-hx96
2019
Conference Publication
Searching for the Juvenile in Convictism: A network study of convict children in colonial archaeology’
D'Gluyas, Cailtin (2019). Searching for the Juvenile in Convictism: A network study of convict children in colonial archaeology’. Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 10-13 December 2019.
2018
Conference Publication
Accessible Archaeology: Improving the visibility of historical archaeology in NSW
D'Gluyas, Caitlin (2018). Accessible Archaeology: Improving the visibility of historical archaeology in NSW. Australian Institute for Marine Archaeology and Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Joint Conference, Parramatta, NSW Australia, 26-28 September 2018.
2017
Conference Publication
Going public: ideas for public engagement during urban archaeological excavations
D'Gluyas, Cailtin (2017). Going public: ideas for public engagement during urban archaeological excavations. Interpretation Australia and Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology Joint Conference: Travelling Stories: Connecting People and Landscapes, Launceston/Hobart, TAS, Australia, 10 – 14 October.
2015
Journal Article
Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania
D'Gluyas, Caitlin, Gibbs, Martin, Hamilton, Chloe and Roe, David (2015). Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania. Archaeology in Oceania, 50 (3), 130-137. doi: 10.1002/arco.5072
2014
Conference Publication
Beyond subsistence of the unfree: nineteenth century artefacts at the prisoner barracks
D'Gluyas, Caitlin, Gibbs, Martin, Roe, David and Hamilton, Chloe (2014). Beyond subsistence of the unfree: nineteenth century artefacts at the prisoner barracks. 2014 AAA-ASHA Joint Conference: culture, climate, change: archaeology in the tropics, Cairns, QLD, Australia, 1 - 3 December 2014. James Cook University.
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Caitlin D'Gluyas is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The Historical Archaeology of Powered Landscapes and South Sea Islander Identities on the Pioneer Sugar Estate, Brandon (1881¿1906)
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
The expression of Chinese diaspora identity and material culture practice in mid-to-late-19th and early-20th century Queensland
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
A question of balance: A multi-method zooarchaeological study of food and identity (re)creation in migrant communities in late 19th/early 20th century Queensland
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Tiina Manne
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Doctor Philosophy
Historical Archaeology of Asutralian South Sea Islanders Lived Identities
Associate Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Zooarchaeology of voluntary isolation: How does isolation affect past human/faunal interactions in Ravenswood, Qld?
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Tiina Manne
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