Review of Judy Powell, 2013 'Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart', Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, ISBN 978-1-74305-235-8, pp. xvi + 308, 8 pls, 1 map A$30.

Abstract

Judy Powell is an Australian archaeologist whose PhD research at the University of Queensland was published in 1996 under the title 'Fishing in the Prehistoric Aegean' (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology: Göteborg). She has worked on excavations in Cyprus, Greece and Jordon and on Indigenous and historical archaeology projects in Queensland. relative brevity of European occupation of the continent is considered, and the archaeological establishment, such as it was in the post-WWII period, appears to have held the material record of the continent's pre-European inhabitants unworthy of study. Powell, while making it sufficiently clear that she deplores this neglect, weaves a record of the discipline's development from the early twentieth century into a biographical tale of two of its most enigmatic personalities, the Australian Jim Stewart and his English second wife, Eve Dray. The body of the book is divided into three Parts, comprising twelve chapters in all. There is also a short prologue, along with an epilogue and appendix.