Filled with money and building materials, Rooswijk sank on a horrible night in early 1740. When the wreck was discovered, it was seen as an opportunity to make money by selling recovered artefacts. But the study of underwater cultural heritage sites such as Rooswijk can offer an amazing wealth of information to be developed from material remains. Join visiting researcher Martijn Manders to explore the global stories and connections to WA revealed by the Rooswijk.

This seminar presents the various projects and initiatives that have brought the National Trust of Western Australia and Archaeology at the University of Western Australia together since the 1980s, and will launch the Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations.

Learn what was found beneath the turf of the Peninsula Farm gardens and be transported back nearly two hundred years to experience life in the early days of this historic farm. For the first time, Professor Benjamin Smith will present the findings from the first major excavations in the gardens, providing a unique glimpse of the early days of Peninsula Farm.

Koombana Bay has not always been a tranquil spot favoured by families for its calm waters. Beneath the sand and sea are buried the wooden skeletons of many ships. Learn their stories with Bunbury Museum + Heritage Centre's Barbara Rae.

WA has some of Australia’s best heritage – and worst legal protections, especially for Aboriginal heritage. This talk by Sven Ouzman covers the destruction of Juukan Gorge; the confusion of juggling three State heritage laws, and acknowledges Aboriginal ‘First Law’, in order to map a pathway to prosperity, truth-telling, and a more inclusive national identity.

Filled with money and building materials, Rooswijk sank on a horrible night in early 1740. When the wreck was discovered, it was seen as an opportunity to make money by selling recovered artefacts. But the study of underwater cultural heritage sites such as Rooswijk can offer an amazing wealth of information to be developed from material remains. Join visiting researcher Martijn Manders to explore the global stories and connections to WA revealed by the Rooswijk.

Drop in to a seminar night to hear short talks from a panel of experts, covering anything and everything archaeology related! From new discoveries made in the world of research, to lessons learned in the field, to the role which archaeology plays in our modern world. Organised by the Archaeological Society of WA.

There is a long-held and ongoing mystery regarding the whereabouts of the luxury coastal passenger steamship SS Koombana (1912), lost in a cyclone between Port Hedland and Broome. Join WA Museum maritime archaeologists Dr Ross Anderson and Dr Deb Shefi, from the Shipwreck Hunters Australia Disney+ series, for a discussion about the most recent 2021 expedition, and how the focus has narrowed towards the next stage of finding this elusive shipwreck.

ArchSoc invites you to an informal Q&A session with archaeologists working in the field.

Come watch "Indiana Jones" and catch up with ArchSoc! Drinks and pizza provided!

Professor Alistair Paterson (University of Western Australia) shares insights into an ongoing project that draws together the results of five decades of historical and maritime archaeological research along the Western Australian coast. A free online seminar, presented by the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology.

Images of human faces have become an important source of evidence in forensic investigations. In this online presentation, Dr Zuzana Obertová will talk about the practice of forensic facial identification from the perspective of a forensic anthropologist, who worked as a facial examiner in a European law enforcement agency.

Find out about recent archaeological projects across the country, in an online panel of short talks presented by the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc.

ArchSoc invites you to breakfast with an archaeologist! A meet-and-greet for undergrads and archaeologists with guest speakers organised by ArchSoc.

AACAI and ASWA invite you to attend a documentary screening of How the West was Lost followed by a panel discussion on the 1946 Pilbara pastoral workers' strike.

An event from the Pint of Science festival, featuring Sven Ouzman on ‘Uncultured burning: managing fire and heritage’. Recent work with Indigenous rangers shows how modified burning programmes over 32,000 km2 and more than 1400 heritage sites produces good outcomes for heritage and human health.

Hilary Howes introduces the research project ‘Skulls for the Tsar’, which aims to produce the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific by the Russian Empire during the long 19th century.

Mentoring and support for women working in or planning to work in Archaeology or Anthropology. A free half-day seminar organised by the AACAI WA Chapter and the Anthropological Society of WA, with support from the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia.

Join AACAI WA and AWSA for an evening of archaeology and general trivia, at the Left Bank in East Fremantle. Get a team together, or just come by yourself and we'll find you a table. Become part of the annual event that set in motion a rising tide of National Archaeology Week trivia nights across the nation.

The Main Cell Block at Fremantle Prison has housed inmates from its construction in 1850s until 1991 when the Prison closed. During recent conservation works, floor boards of the cells were removed and material was found from the convict era to recent times. Join us for a 45 minute talk to hear about the discoveries.

Twenty-five years ago, historian of science Margaret Rossiter described the ‘Matilda effect’: the historical process through which female scientists were written out of history. Join Dr Emilie Dotte-Sarout for a discussion of why and how we should tell the story of the first women archaeologists in the Pacific.

Join Sven Ouzman for an investigation of death and our relationship to death. Starting with a course on The Archaeology of Death, presented to UWA archaeology students, and examining insights and questions raised by the students who have been studying during the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Once a month, archaeologist Dr Craig Barker joins Rhianna Patrick on ABC Radio to talk all things archaeological. For National Archaeology Week, Craig will be joined by Dr Penny Crook, historical archaeologist at La Trobe University.

Want to know what archaeology really is? Want a Junior Archaeologists Kit packed with the tools of an archaeologist? Learn from professional archaeologist Sue Carter what you need to do to become a budding Junior Archaeologist!

The WA Chapter of Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. (and the Archaeology Society of WA) are pleased to host their third National Archaeology Week Trivia Night! Join us for a night of fun with lots of awesome prizes on offer. 

Sound in the form of language and music make us human. But what is the archaeological evidence for sound? Join Dr Sven Ouzman for a global look at sound, music, language, art and human evolution, before focusing on the San or 'Bushman' of southern Africa.

Join Adrian Shubert and Boyd Cothran from York University in Toronto, who will use the story of the Edwin Fox as a way of exploring the important process of globalization that took place in the second half of the 19th century and first years of the 20th.