Abstract
This research introduces the historical archaeology of Western Australia through a study of two colonisation events in 1829 and 1863 which, between them, settled most of the land claimed and named by the British Empire as Western Australia.
The Western Australian story is overwhelmingly the story of the spread of market capitalism, a narrative which is at the foundation of modern western world economy and culture. Due to the timing of settlement in Western Australia, there was a lack of older infrastructure patterns based on industrial capitalism to evoke geographical inertia to modify and deform the newer system. The forces of market capitalism therefore had free rein to mould the settlement and economic systems of the state. This makes identifying the systemic patterns which grew out of market capitalist forces clearer and easier to delineate than in older settlement areas.
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Nayton, G. (2011). Introduction. In: The Archaeology of Market Capitalism. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8318-3_1
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