List of Australian archaeologists
The following is a list of notable Australian archaeologists – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable research.
A-C
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Jim Allen[1] | Australian National University; La Trobe University Australian Research Council | South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita,[2] Polynesian | ||
Val Attenbrow | born 1942 | University of Sydney, Australian Museum, graduated BA(hons) 1976, PhD 1987 | social and technological change in Aboriginal stone tools, the Aboriginal archaeology of Sydney, ground-edged hatchet/axe sourcing studies | |
Diane Barwick | 29 April 1938 Vancouver, Canada - 4 April 1986 Royal Canberra Hospital | Australian National University | Aboriginal culture and society[3] | |
Peter Bellwood | Australian National University | prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology[4] | ||
Judy Birmingham | University of Sydney | historical archaeology in Australia[5] | Irrawang pottery, Raymond Terrace NSW; Wybalenna Flinders Island, Tasmania | |
Stephen Bourke | University College London, University of Sydney[6] | Pella | ||
Sandra Bowdler | born 1947 | University of Western Australia | ||
Heather Burke | Flinders Universityl University of New England | historical archaeology[7] | ||
Les Bursill | University of New England | Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra[8] | ||
Scott Cane[9] | born 1954 | Australian National University | desert people of Australia, Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People[10] | |
Vere Gordon Childe | 14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957 | University of Edinburgh, Institute of Archaeology, London | European prehistory, culture-historical archaeology, Marxist archaeology | Europe / neolithic |
John Clegg | 11 January 1935 - 11 March 2015 | Cambridge University; University of Sydney, BA(Hons), Ed.Cert. (1959), MA(Hons) (1962) | rock art | |
Margaret Clunies Ross | born 24 April 1942 | Oxford University, University of Adelaide, University of Gothenburg | Old Norse-Icelandic studies, Australian Aborigines | |
Graham Connah | born 11 August 1934 | Cambridge University, University of New England | South Africa; historical archaeology | |
Peter Coutts | University of Melbourne, University of Otago, Australian National University Victoria Archaeological Survey | Victorian Aboriginal and historic archaeology | Corinella, Victoria | |
Roger Cribb | 1948–2007 | University of Queensland | modelling spatial patterns and social organisation of nomadic peoples, cultural landscapes | |
William (Bill) Culican | 21 August 1928 Great Harwood, Lancashire – 24 March 1984 | Queen’s College, Oxford, University of Melbourne | Near and Middle East antiquity, Australian historical archaeology[11] | Fossil Beach cement works, Mornington |
D-F
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Raymond Dart | 4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988 | University of Queensland, St. Andrew's College, Sydney, University of Sydney, University College, London, University of Witwatersrand | Australopithecus africanus | |
Iain Davidson | Cambridge University; University of New England | |||
Hilary du Cros | Monash University | history of Australian archaeology[12] | ||
Josephine Flood | born 1938 | Cambridge University, Australian National University | Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia | Cloggs Cave |
Adam Ford | Institute of Archaeology, University College London | Who's Been Sleeping in My House? | ||
David Frankel | University of Sydney, Gothenburg University Sweden (Phd.), La Trobe University | Cypress, Syria; Koongine Cave, Australia | ||
Barry L. Frankhauser | b. Wisconsin USA 1943, d. 21 January 2014 Canberra[13] | MSc (chemistry) University of Hawaii; PhD University of Otago; Research Fellow, The Australian National University | archaeometry; thermoluminesence (TL) dating; residue analysis; pre-European Maori earth ovens, umi ti; historical uses of the cabbage tree;[14] sourcing Australian ochres | |
G-I
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Sandor (Alexander) Gallus | 15 November 1907 - 29 December 1996 | Szeged and Budapest Universities, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Hungarian National Museum | Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation | Koonalda Cave South Australia Dry Creek archaeological site Keilor |
Jack Golson | born 1926, England | Cambridge University, Auckland University, The Australian National University | Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia | Savai'i island, Samoa |
Alice Gorman | born 1964 | Flinders University (2005–present); Ecology and Heritage Partners (2013–present) | Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools | orbital debris; space as a cultural landscape[15] |
John Basil Hennessy AO | 10 February 1925 - 27 October 2013[16] | BA, archaeology, University of Sydney 1950, DPhil. Oxford University, 1962–64, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem | Teleilat Ghassul (1975–77), Pella (1978-) | |
Peter Hiscock | born 27 March 1957 | University of Queensland, Australian National University, University of Sydney | ancient technology | |
Jeannette Hope | Monash University | Western New South Wales | ||
J-L
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Ian Jack | University of Sydney (history) | historical archaeology | ||
Rhys Jones | 1941–2001 | Emmanuel College, Cambridge, University of Sydney, PhD on Tasmanian Aboriginal archaeology, Australian National University | Tasmania | |
Johan Kamminga | University of Sydney | use-wear and residues | ||
Estelle Lazer[17] | Sydney University, | human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii[17] | ||
Harry Lourandos | born 1945 | University of Sydney, University of New England, University of Queensland, James Cook University | hunter-gatherer intensification | |
M-O
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Fred McCarthy[18] | 1905-1997 | Sydney University; Foundation Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies | 1957 Australia's Aborigines, their life and culture[19] | |
Isabel McBryde | University of Melbourne, University of New England; Australian National University | New England prehistory, hatchet or axe sourcing studies[20] | ||
Peter Mathews | born 12 June 1951 | University of Calgary, Yale University, La Trobe University to 2011 | Maya hieroglyphs | |
Betty Meehan | born 1933 | Sydney University, Australian National University | Maningrida | |
Vincent Megaw | Emeritus professor of archaeology University of Leicester[21] Flinders University | Early Celtic Art in Britain [22] | ||
Mike Morwood | 27 October 1950 Auckland – 23 July 2013 | University of Auckland, University of New England (Australia) | Homo floresiensis | |
John Mulvaney | 26 October 1925 – 21 September 2016 | Cambridge University | "Father of Australian archaeology" | |
Ken Mulvaney | University of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, Victoria Archaeological Survey[23] | Aboriginal engagement, Burrup Peninsula rock art | ||
Stephen Munro | Australian National | engraved fossil shell from Java[24] | ||
Tim Murray | La Trobe University, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, Cambridge University, University of Leiden Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris) Institute of Archaeology, University College London | history of archaeology | ||
P-R
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Gary Presland | La Trobe University, University of London, Victoria Archaeological Survey | Aboriginal landscapes in Victoria[25] | ||
Timothy Potts | University of Sydney, University of Oxford, La Trobe University, University of Melbourne | |||
Don Ranson | Tasmanian prehistory | Kutikina Cave | ||
S-U
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Antonio Sagona | (1956-2017 | University of Cape Town, University of Melbourne | Near East, Gallipoli | |
Carmel Schrire | born May 15, 1941 | University of Cape Town, Australian National University | South Africa | |
Veronica Seton-Williams | 20 April 1910 - 29 May 1992 | University of Melbourne University College London | Egyptology and prehistory, Near East | |
Frederic Slater | c. 1880 - 10 March 1947[26] | Anthropological Society of New South Wales | Aboriginal place names | |
Claire Smith | born 15 July 1957 | Flinders University | Indigenous archaeology, rock art[27] | |
Grafton Elliot Smith | 15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937 | University of Sydney (anatomist) | hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory | |
Dirk HR Spennemann | Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Management at the School of Environmental Sciences,[28] Charles Sturt University[29] | |||
James R. Stewart | 3 July 1913 – 6 February 1962 | University of Sydney | Cyprus and the Ancient Near East | |
Eugene Stockton | born 1934 | Sydney University | ||
Sharon Sullivan | Ba(Hons) History and Archaeology (University of New England) 1964; Dip.Ed. (University of New England) 1965; MA (Honours) History and Archaeology (University of New England) 1972 | heritage conservation[30] | ||
John Arthur Thompson | 1913–2002[31] | University of Queensland, University of Melbourne University of Cambridge | Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist | |
Alan Thorne | 1 March 1939 – 21 May 2012 | University of Sydney, Australian National University | Aboriginal Australian origins and the human genome | Lake Mungo, Kow Swamp |
Norman Tindale | 12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993 | University of Adelaide | mapping Australian tribes | |
Arthur Dale Trendall | 28 March 1909 – 13 November 1995 | University of Sydney, Australian National University | Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia | |
V-Z
Archaeologist | Dates | University/organization | Area of interest | Specialities/discoveries |
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Ron Vanderwal | Melbourne Museum, La Trobe University | Torres Strait, New Guinea[32] | ||
Bruce Veitch | 30 June 1957 – 10 March 2005[33] | BA (Hons) University of New England 1985; PhD, University of Western Australia 1989 | Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia | Bruce Veitch Award[34] |
George Roy Haslam (Mick) Wright[35] | University of Western Australia | Middle East | ||
Graeme K. Ward | b. 1943 | MA(Hons) University of Otago; PhD (The Australian National University) | Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art[36] | |
See also
References
- ↑ Australian archaeologist: collected papers in honour of Jim Allen, Jim Allen, Atholl Anderson, Tim Murray Coombs Academic Pub., the Australian National University, 2000 - Social Science
- ↑ Allen, J. (1984). "In Search of the Lapita Homeland: Reconstructing the Prehistory of the Bismarck Archipelago". Journal of Pacific History (19/4): 186–187.
- ↑ 'Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835-1904', Part 1, Aboriginal History 1984, 8(2):100-31
- ↑ Professor Peter Bellwood, School of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Australian National University.
- ↑ Australian Pioneer Technology. Sites and Relics (1979), (Birmingham et al.), Heinemann Educational Australia, ISBN 0-85859-185-5
- ↑ "Honorary Fellows". British Institute Amman. Archived from the original on 27 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
- ↑ The Archaeologist's Field Handbook
- ↑ Archaeology of the Dharawal People www.lesbursill.com
- ↑ Fremantle Press Author Profile
- ↑ Anne Loxley Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People; Sydney Morning Herald; 3 August 2002
- ↑ 'The first merchant venturers : the ancient Levant in history and commerce by Culican, William, 1928–1984, London Thames & Hudson, 1966; The Medes and Persians (Ancient peoples and places series, ;vol.42) by Culican, William, London Thames and Hudson, 1965; Fossil Beach cement works, Mornington, Victoria: an essay in industrial archaeology by William Culican and John Taylor, Deception Bay, Queensland, Refulgence Publishers, 1972
- ↑ Much More than Stones & Bones: Australian Archaeology in the Late Twentieth Century, Melbourne University Press. 2002 ISBN 9780522850208
- ↑ Bedford; et al. (2014). "Barry Lee Fankhauser - A Dedicated Fastidious Scientist and keen party man (1943-2014)". Archaeology in New Zealand. 57 (1): 15–24.
- ↑ Robert G. Bednarik, Smith, M.A., M. Spriggs, and B. Frankhauser (eds) 1993 Sahul in review: Pleistocene archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia. Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies
- ↑ space as a cultural landscape
- ↑ Vale Professor John Basil Hennessy AO FAHA Archived 31 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
- 1 2 "Dr Estelle Lazer". ABC Brisbane. 2009-11-05. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
- ↑ Australia Museum, 'Fred McCarthy'
- ↑ Kate Kahn (1993) "Frederick David McCarthy: a bibliography". Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 17: 1-5 Archived 12 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
- ↑ Megaw, J. V. S. (1970). Art of the European Iron Age: a study of the elusive image. Adams & Dart. p. 173.
- ↑ Early Celtic Art in Britain, Ruth and Vincent Megaw, p.29, accessed 16 August 2010
- ↑ Bruce Veitch Award for Excellence in Indigenous Engagement Australian Archaeology Association Archived 6 December 2014 at Archive.is
- ↑ http://au.ibtimes.com/australian-archaeologist-dr-stephen-munro-discovers-earliest-human-engravings-discovered-400000-year
- ↑ First People: the Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Central Victoria
- ↑ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 12 March 1947. p. 24. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ A. Rosenfeld and C. Smith. 1997, "Recent developments in radiocarbon and stylistic methods of dating rock art". Antiquity 72 (272):405-11.
- ↑ School of Environmental Sciences
- ↑ Charles Sturt University
- ↑ Sharon Sullivan biography, Land & Environment Court
- ↑ "Thompson, J. A." Retrieved 5 February 2013.
- ↑ McNiven, Ian J.; Green, Mike Special issue in honour of Ron Vanderwal, The Artefact, 2010 Vol. 33, p2
- ↑ Peter Veth and Sean Ulm, Dr Bruce Veitch, Australian Archaeology, Number 60, 2005
- ↑ Arcaeho-Aus, Dr.Bruce Veitch Award
- ↑ G.R.H. (Mick) Wright: A remarkable Australian archaeological architect, buried Historyvol.49, 2003
- ↑ McEgan, Janine (2014). 'Ward, Graeme K' in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology edited by Claire Smith. NY, NY: Springer. pp. 7686–7689. ISBN 978-1-4419-0465-2.
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