Val Attenbrow

Dr. Val Attenbrow (born 1942) is principal research scientist in the Anthropology Research Section of the Australian Museum,[1] a position she has held since 1989.[2]

Attenbrow commenced her archaeological studies in the Department of Anthropology at Sydney University where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in 1976, and completed her PhD in 1987. She has worked as a private consulting archaeologist and in the National Parks and Wildlife Service (New South Wales) as a cultural heritage officer.

Her research had focussed on the Holocene period subsistence patterns, resource use and stone tool technology of Australian Aborigines, particularly in south-eastern Australia. She has undertaken fieldwork in Upper Mangrove Creek near Wyong on the NSW central coast) and the Port Jackson catchment (the area around Sydney Harbour).[3]

She is author of a comprehensive study of the Aboriginal prehistory of the Sydney Area.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Papers in Honour of Val Attenbrow Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 23 (2011), ISSN 1835-4211
  2. ↑ Australian Museum Staff Profiles
  3. ↑ Australian Academy of the Humanities Honorary Fellows
  4. ↑ Attenbrow, Valerie (2010), Sydney's Aboriginal past : investigating the archaeological and historical records (2nd ed.), University of New South Wales Press, ISBN 978-1-74223-116-7
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