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^A Archaeology, CHASS, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia.

^B National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

^C Archaeology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

^D PO Box 2436, Alice Springs, NT 0871, Australia.

^E Corresponding author. Email: mike.smith@nma.gov.au

This article is part of a forthcoming virtual issue to be titled ‘Histories of archaeology in Australasia and the Pacific’, an initiative of the ARC Laureate Fellowship project ‘The collective biography of archaeology in the Pacific: a hidden history’, based at the Australian National University under the direction of Matthew Spriggs.