AIATSIS Collections               Catalogue             Manuscript Finding Aid index 
                     Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Library 
                                                      MS 5144 
                                            Edmund Bernard Joyce,  
               An archive of studies on the geology and archaeology of the Keilor 
                                Terraces and the Maribyrnong River Valley 
                                                     1970-2015 
                                                             
                                                    CONTENTS 
               COLLECTION SUMMARY                                                                        p.2 
               CULTURAL SENSITIVITY STATEMENT                                                            p.2 
               ACCESS TO COLLECTION                                                                      p.3 
               COLLECTION OVERVIEW                                                                       p.4 
               BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE                                                                         p.4 
               SERIES DESCRIPTION                                                                        p.6 
               MS 5144/1 Information on geology and archaeology of the Keilor Terraces  
                          and the Maribyrnong River Valley 
                          MS 5144/1/1     Keilor excursions 1946-1977                                    p.6 
                          MS 5144/1/2     Correspondence 1971-1976                                       p.7 
                          MS 5144/1/3     Keilor excursions: Jun, Nov and Dec 1975                       p.8 
                          MS 5144/1/4     Victorian Quaternary Group, excursions, Apr 1973               p.9 
                          MS 5144/1/5     Notes and related papers some re carbon dating, 1967-76    p.9 
                          MS 5144/1/6     Reports Keilor and related 1944-1972                           p.11 
                          MS 5144/1/7     Reports Keilor and related 1972-1976                           p.14 
                          MS 5144/1/8     Reports Keilor and related 1977-2015                           p.15 
               MS 5144/2     Photographs                                                                 p.16 
               MS 5144/3     Maps and plans                                                              p.17 
               BOX LIST                                                                                 p.17 
                                            
                                                             
                
                MS 5144, Edmund Bernard Joyce, An archive of studies on the geology and 
              archaeology of the Keilor Terraces and the Maribyrnong River Valley, 1970-2015 
            
            
           COLLECTION SUMMARY 
           Creator:          Edmund Joyce 
           Title:            An archive of studies on the geology and 
                             archaeology of the Keilor Terraces and the 
                             Maribyrnong River Valley 
           Collection no:    MS 5144 
           Date range:       1970-2015 
           Extent:           2 archives boxes, 0.3 shelf metres 
           Repository:       Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait 
                             Islander Studies 
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           CULTURAL SENSITIVITY STATEMENT 
           It is a condition of use of this finding aid, and of the collection described in it, that users 
           ensure that any use of the information contained in it is sympathetic to the views and 
           sensitivities of relevant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.   
           This includes: 
           Language 
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           culturally sensitive and which might not normally be used in certain public or community 
           contexts. Terms and descriptions which reflect the author’s attitude, or that of the period in 
           which the manuscript was written, and which may be considered inappropriate today in some 
           circumstances, may also be used. 
           Deceased persons 
           Users of this finding aid should be aware that, in some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 
           communities, seeing images of deceased persons in photographs, film and books or hearing 
           them in recordings etc. may cause sadness or distress and in some cases, offend against 
           strongly held cultural prohibitions. 
            
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          MS 5144, Edmund Bernard Joyce, An archive of studies on the geology and 
         archaeology of the Keilor Terraces and the Maribyrnong River Valley, 1970-2015 
        
        
       ACCESS TO COLLECTION   
       Access and use conditions  
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       communities and/or depositors. Users are advised that access to some materials may be 
       subject to these access conditions. 
       Copying and quotation  
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       determined by the depositor of the manuscripts. In accordance with the Copyright Act 1968, 
       Section 51, materials are only provided for private study and use.   
       Obtaining access, copying and quotation permissions  
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       signed. Further information can be found on the AIATSIS website on the Ordering collection 
       items page. Contact Collections staff for further information.  
       Although Manuscripts are not available on Interlibrary loan, they may be available via 
       document supply (photocopying), subject to access conditions, if they are already digitized.  
       Email Collections Staff or telephone +61 2 6246 1182 
       Access conditions  
       Open access – reading. Partial copying and use. Not for inter library loan. 
       Preferred citation 
       Items from this collection should be cited as [Title or description of manuscript item], 
       Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, MS [insert number], 
       Series [insert number], Subseries [insert number], Item or Folder [insert number]. 
       For example: 
       Letter DJ Mulvaney to EB Joyce, May 1975, in Edmund Bernard Joyce, An archive of studies 
       on the geology and archaeology of the Keilor Terraces and the Maribyrnong River Valley, 
       Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, MS 5144, Series 1, 
       Folder 2, Item 3. 
        
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             MS 5144, Edmund Bernard Joyce, An archive of studies on the geology and 
           archaeology of the Keilor Terraces and the Maribyrnong River Valley, 1970-2015 
          
          
         COLLECTION OVERVIEW  
         Scope and contents note  
         There are three series of Bernie Joyce’s Keilor research papers: information papers, 
         photographs, and maps and plans. The information papers cover excursions, 
         correspondence, notes and reports. They are in rough chronological order. 
         Provenance  
         The collection was donated to the AIATSIS Collection by Associate Professor EB Joyce in 
         September 2016. 
         Material separated from the collection 
         No material has been separated from the collection. 
         Related material 
         For a complete list of works by E.B. Joyce, held in the Collection and for other related 
         material consult Mura®, the AIATSIS catalogue. 
         For access to Audiovisual material contact Collections. 
         Archivist’s note 
         The arrangement and description of Bernie Joyce’s papers is modelled on the preliminary 
         listing of the folders. The sequence of documents is roughly chronological. 
         Please note that Professor Joyce’s maps and plans, MS 5144/3/1–3/8, are held in Map 
         Cabinet 8, Drawer 1.  
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         BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE  
         Associate Professor Edmund Bernard Joyce (b.1934, known as Bernie Joyce) is an 
         Australian geologist who began researching the geology and geomorphology of the 
         Aboriginal archaeology sites of the Keilor Terraces and the Maribyrnong River Valley in the 
         1970s. Located approximately 16 kilometres north-west of the city of Melbourne, the Keilor 
         and Maribyrnong River sites are among the most important Aboriginal prehistory locations in 
         Australia, having provided some of the earliest proof of the length of Aboriginal occupation in 
         Australia, with evidence of human activity over 30,000 years ago.  
         The 1960s and 1970s saw significant growth in the knowledge and understanding of the 
         Aboriginal prehistory of the Keilor and Maribyrnong River sites, with Joyce’s work making an 
         important contribution. He focussed in particular on the Dry Creek site, publishing with RS 
         Anderson in The Artefact in 1976 the ‘Late Quaternary geology and environment at the Dry 
         Creek archaeological site near Keilor in Victoria, Australia’. Joyce’s ‘Terraces on the 
         Maribyrnong River at Keilor’, formed part of the Geological Society of Australia volume on the 
         geology of Victoria, and he contributed conference papers and notes on the Keilor and 
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