An archaeology of colonial consumption: Sydney trade and material culture, 1788–1901

该项目将探索悉尼作为市场的历史，广泛考察殖民时代的消费文化、考古遗迹和贸易目录。它将以开创性的新方法为基础，探索在悉尼考古遗址发现的数千件国内物质文化物品的成本、质量和价值。它将采用新兴的数字技术来分析澳大利亚殖民地广告和国内商品促销的独特趋势，以及殖民地零售商销售的数千种商品的价格。由此产生的分析将为大英帝国鼎盛时期的帝国、商业和大众消费的社会影响提供新的跨国历史。

This project will explore Sydney's history as a marketplace, in a broad-ranging examination of consumer cultures, archaeological relics and trade catalogues from the colonial era. It will build on pioneering new methods to explore the cost, quality and value of thousands of objects of domestic material culture found on archaeological sites in Sydney. It will employ emerging digital technologies to analyse distinctive trends in colonial Australian advertising and the promotion of domestic goods, along with the prices of thousands of goods sold by colonial retailers. The resulting analyses will underwrite new transnational histories of empire, commerce and the social impact of mass consumption at the height of the British empire.