Alambra-Mouttes: the University of Queensland mission

A Middle Bronze Age house with a storage room of six large vessels is the main result of the work by the University of Queensland at Alambra-Mouttes. Excavation and geophysical survey ran from 2012 to 2015 under Andrew Sneddon, who states that the Department of Antiquities' 2005 salvage excavation southwest of the modern village prompted it¹. Sneddon presents the work as a way to locate previously unknown habitation areas and clarify the settlement's layout¹. In 2012 the team excavated Area B, which road construction had disturbed, and exposed a multi-room rectilinear domestic structure¹. Sneddon dates the house to the Middle Bronze Age on ceramic evidence; a storage room held the remains of six large storage vessels¹. He argues that the Queensland work identified settlement nodes missed by the Cornell surveys, and that the settlement appears to have comprised distinct habitation nodes separated by vacant land and burial areas¹.