A/Prof Michael Rowland ~ Adjunct Associate Professor

Mike Rowland was Principal Archaeologist with the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Multicultural Affairs until September 2012, a position he held since 1981. He is an Editor of Queensland Archaeological Research. He has undertaken archaeological fieldwork in New Zealand, Fiji, New South Wales and Queensland and taught at the University of Auckland, University of New England and University of Queensland. Mike has published over 70 papers on aspects on archaeology with a focus on New Zealand, Fiji and Australia. Mike has a particular interest in the relationship between humans and the environment, especially in small island environments.

Interests

Research

• Coastal and island archaeology
• Cultural heritage management and climate change
• Environmental change and human adaptation
• Archaeological predictive modelling
• Indigenous watercraft use
• Cultural heritage management
• Repatriation of Indigenous human remains

Experience

• 1981 to 2012 - Principal Archaeologist, Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Multicultural Affairs (Brisbane)

Research Disciplines

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and (4501)
• Pacific Peoples culture, language and history (4513)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Understanding past societies (1307)

Memberships

• New Zealand Archaeology Association
• New Zealand Historic Places Trust
• The Royal Society of New Zealand
• Australian Archaeological Association
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• ICOMOS Australia
• Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria
• Australian Rock Art Research Association
• Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand
• World Archaeological Congress

Other

• Editor, Queensland Archaeological Research

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Journal Articles

• Rowland M and Kerkhove R (2022) Evidence of external contact between the Pacific Basin and the east coast of Australia during the Holocene: A review. Queensland Archaeological Research, 25. pp. 47-66
• Rowland M (2020) “By savage hands his steps were stayed!”: life and death on the Percy Isles, 1854. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 124. pp. 63-79
• Rowland M (2018) 65,000 years of isolation in Aboriginal Australia or continuity and external contacts? An assessment of the evidence with an emphasis on the Queensland coast. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 42. pp. 211-240
• Rowland M, Wright S and Baker R (2015) The timing and use of offshore islands in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Province, Queensland. Quaternary International, 385. pp. 154-165
• Rowland M, Ulm S and Roe M (2014) Approaches to monitoring and managing Indigenous Australian coastal cultural heritage places. Queensland Archaeological Research, 17. pp. 37-48
• Rowland M, Ulm S and Reid J (2014) Compliance with Indigenous cultural heritage legislation in Queensland: perceptions, realities and prospects. Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 31 (5). pp. 329-351
• Rowland M (2013) Geocaching and cultural heritage. Artefact, 36. pp. 3-9
• Rowland M and Ulm S (2012) Key issues in the conservation of the Australian coastal archaeological record: natural and human impacts. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 16 (2). pp. 159-171
• Rowland M and Ulm S (2011) Indigenous fish traps and weirs of Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research, 14. pp. 1-58
• Rowland M (2010) Will the sky fall in? Global warming: an alternative view. Antiquity, 84 (326). pp. 1163-1171
• Rowland M (2008) Saving the past from the future. Historic Environment, 21 (1). pp. 19-29

Book Chapters

• Rowland M, Shaw B and Ulm S (2021) Maritime coastal and island societies of Australia and New Guinea. In: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 19+ research outputs authored by A/Prof Michael Rowland from 1995 onwards.

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Completed

• Socio-ecological dynamics in mollusc fisheries: a case study from the Keppel Bay Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2021, PhD , Secondary Advisor)