List of Australian archaeologists

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The following is a list of notable Australian archaeologists – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable research.

A-C

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
Jim Allen[1]		Australian National University; La Trobe University Australian Research Council	South Pacific; Port Essington; Lapita;[2] Polynesian
Val Attenbrow	born 1942. Graduated BA(hons) 1976, PhD 1987	University of Sydney, Australian Museum	Social and technological change in Aboriginal stone tools, the Aboriginal archaeology of Sydney, ground-edged hatchet/axe sourcing studies
Jane Balme		University of Western Australia	Rock art, indigenous hunter-gatherer societies and Aboriginal subsistence economies[3]
Diane Barwick	29 April 1938 Vancouver, Canada - 4 April 1986 Royal Canberra Hospital	Australian National University	Aboriginal culture and society[4]
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[5]
Judy Birmingham		University of Sydney	Historical archaeology in Australia[6]	Irrawang Pottery, Raymond Terrace NSW; Wybalenna Flinders Island, Tasmania
Stephen Bourke		University College London, University of Sydney[7]	Pella
Sandra Bowdler	(born 1947)	University of Western Australia
Jim Bowler		University of Melbourne	geology and geomorphology of prehistoric Australia	Lake Mungo
Heather Burke		Flinders Universityl University of New England	historical archaeology,[8]
Les Bursill		University of New England	Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra[9]
Scott Cane[10]	(born 1954)	Australian National University	desert people of Australia Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People.[11]
Martin Carney		University of Sydney, University of N.S.W	material culture of New South Wales, Australia (post-1788)
Mary Casey		PhD Uni. of Sydney; Master of the Built Environment (Heritage Conservation), Uni. of NSW (1991)BA (Hons in Archaeology), Uni. of Sydney (1987)	Sydney Conservatorium of Music Site
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). BA(Hons), Ed.Cert. (1959), MA(Hons) (1962)	Cambridge University; University of Sydney	Rock art
Margaret Clunies Ross	born 24 April 1942	Oxford University, University of Adelaide, University of Gothenburg	Old Norse-Icelandic studies, Australian Aborigines
Sarah Colley		Southampton University, University of Sydney	Teaching, archaeological fish remains
Graham Connah		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[12]

D-F

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
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
Bruno David		Monash University	local Indigenous communities in Australia, Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific
Iain Davidson		Cambridge University; University of New England
Charles E. Dortch		Western Australia Museum	Western Australia coastal economies[13]	Devil's Lair Cave, Western Australia
Joe Dortch		University of Western Australia, University of Sydney, Dortch & Cuthbert[14]
Hilary du Cros		Monash University		history of Australian archaeology[15]
Judith Field		University of Sydney, University of New South Wales	Megafauna, starch residue analysis	Cuddie Springs
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.), Latrobe University	Cypress, Syria; Koongine Cave, Australia
Barry L. Frankhauser		Australian National University	Historical uses of the cabbage tree [16]
Richard Fullagar		University of Sydney, Australian Museum, University of Wollongong, Scarp Archaeology	Stone tool studies; use-wear and residues

G-I

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
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
Martin David Gibbs		University of Sydney; University of New England	Maritime archaeology; Historical archaeology
Jack Golson	born 1926, England	Cambridge University, Auckland University, 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
Laila Haglund			Consulting Archaeology
John Basil Hennessy AO	(10 February 1925 - 27 October 2013),[17]	BA, archaeology University of Sydney 1950, DPhil. Oxford University, 1962–64, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem	Teleilat Ghassul (1975–77) Pella (1978-)
Ted Higginbotham		Cambridge University	Historical Archaeology	Hyde Park Barracks
Peter Hiscock	born 27 March 1957	University of Queensland, Australian National University, University of Sydney	ancient technology
Simon Holdaway		University of Auckland	Australian, Egyptian, New Zealand archaeology; stone artefact analysis; archaeological theory; GIS.
Jeannette Hope		Monash University	Western New South Wales

J-L

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
Ian Jack		University of Sydney (history)	Historical Archaeology
Rhys Jones (archaeologist)	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
Susan Lawrence		LaTrobe University	Historical Archaeology; Mining Archaeology
Dr Estelle Lazer[18]		Sydney University,	human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii[18]
Harry Lourandos	born 1945	University of Sydney, University of New England, University of Queensland, James Cook University	hunter-gatherer intensification
Tony Lowe[19]		MA University College London (1987); BA (History & Archaeology), University of Sydney (1981).	post-1788 settlement of New South Wales

M-O

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
Fred McCarthy[20]	(1905-1997)	Sydney University; Foundation Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies	1957 Australia's Aborigines, their life and culture[21]
Justin McCarthy		Research Associate BA Sydney University	Little Lon district[22]
Isabel McBryde		University of Melbourne, University of New England; Australian National University	New England prehistory, hatchet or axe sourcing studies[23]
Jo McDonald		Sydney University, Jo McDonald Cultural Heritage Management, Godden Mackay Logan, University of Western Australia	Consulting archaeology, Rock art
Richard McKay		Godden Mackay Logan
Ian McNiven[24]		Monash University	Maritime Archaeology, New Guinea, Torres Strait
Peter Mathews	(born 12 June 1951)	University of Calgary, Yale University, La Trobe University to 2011	Maya Hieroglyphs
Audrey Lilian Meaney	(born 1931)	University of Cambridge, English Department at the University of New England	Anglo-Saxon England.
Betty Meehan	(born 1933)	Sydney University, Australian National University	Maningrida
Vincent Megaw		Emeritus professor of archaeology University of Leicester[25] Flinders University	Early Celtic Art in Britain [26]
Kate Morse		Director of Archaeology at Fremantle heritage consultancy Big Island Research
Mike Morwood	27 October 1950 Auckland – 23 July 2013	University of Auckland, University of New England (Australia),		Homo floresiensis
John Mulvaney	(born 1925)	Cambridge University	"Father of Australian archaeology"
Ken Mulvaney		University of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, Victoria Archaeological Survey[27]	Aboriginal engagement, Burrup Peninsula rock art
Stephen Munro		Australian National		engraved fossil shell from Java[28]
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
Susan O'Connor
Paul Ossa		La Trobe University	southeastern Australia, earlier hunter-gatherers, lithics.	New Guinea II cave

P-R

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
Colin Pardoe			Australian bio-anthropology and archaeology
Gary Presland		La Trobe University, University of London, Victoria Archaeological Survey	Aboriginal landscapes in Victoria[29]
Timothy Potts		University of Sydney, University of Oxford, La Trobe University, University of Melbourne.
Don Ranson			Tasmanian prehistory	Kutikina Cave
Jim Rhoads		University of Western Australia, Australian National University		Papuan axeadzes

S-U

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
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	(c1880- 10 March 1947[30])	Anthropological Society of New South Wales	Aboriginal place names
Claire Smith	born 15 July 1957	Flinders University	Indigenous archaeology, rock art[31]
Grafton Elliot Smith	(15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937)	University of Sydney (anatomist)	hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory
Dr. Dirk HR Spennemann		Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Management at the School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University
James R. Stewart	(3 July 1913 – 6 February 1962)	University of Sydney	Cyprus and the Ancient Near East
Fr Eugene Stockton	(born 1934)	Sydney University
Jim Stockton	active 1977-86	Australian National University,	prehistoric settlement of Tasmania	Jordan River (Tasmania)
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[32]
Nicola Stern		LaTrobe University
John Arthur Thompson	(1913–2002[33])	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
Robin Torrence		Australian Museum	Greece, Papua New Guinea, eastern Russia
Arthur Dale Trendall	28 March 1909 – 13 November 1995	University of Sydney, Australian National University	Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia

V-Z

Archaeologists	dates	University/organization	area of interest	specialities/discoveries
Ron Vanderwal		Melbourne Museum, Latrobe University	Torres Straight, New Guinea[34]
Bruce Veitch	(30 June 1957 – 10 March 2005)[35]	BA (Hons) University of New England 1985; PhD, University of Western Australia 1989	Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia	Bruce Veitch Award[36]
Peter Veth		University of Western Australia	rock art, hunter gatherer economies
George Roy Haslam (Mick) Wright[37]		University of Western Australia	Middle East
J. Peter White		University of Sydney, University of Cambridge	Teaching, Pacific archaeology, stone tool studies, archaeozoology
Richard Wright		Cambridge University, University of Sydney	Palaeoanthropology, early human evolution

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See also

• Australian Archaeology
• Australian Archaeological Association

References

1. 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
2. Allen, J. (1984). "In Search of the Lapita Homeland: Reconstructing the Prehistory of the Bismarck Archipelago". Journal of Pacific History (19/4): 186–187.
3. Kimberley Foundation Science Advisory Council
4. 'Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835-1904', Part 1, Aboriginal History 1984, 8(2):100-31
5. Professor Peter Bellwood, School of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Australian National University.
6. Australian Pioneer Technology. Sites and Relics (1979), (Birmingham et al.), Heinemann Educational Australia, ISBN 0-85859-185-5
7. "Honorary Fellows". British Institute Amman. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
8. The Archaeologist's Field Handbook
9. Archaeology of the Dharawal People www.lesbursill.com
10. Fremantle Press Author Profile
11. Anne Loxley Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People; Sydney Morning Herald; 3 August 2002
12. '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
13. Works by or about Charles E Dortch in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
14. Dortch & Cuthbert corporate website
15. Much More than Stones & Bones: Australian Archaeology in the Late Twentieth Century, Melbourne University Press. 2002 ISBN 9780522850208
16. 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
17. Vale Professor John Basil Hennessy AO FAHA
18. "Dr Estelle Lazer". ABC Brisbane. 2009-11-05. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
19. Linkdin profile
20. Australia Museum, 'Fred McCarthy'
21. Kate Kahn (1993) "Frederick David McCarthy: a bibliography". Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 17: 1-5
22. Justin McCarthy (1989) The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne; Archaeological Investigation Report. Volume 1; Historical and Archaeological Report. p.55. Australian Construction Services prepared for The Department of Administrative Services and Telecom Australia
23. The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
24. Monash University staff biographies
25. Megaw, J. V. S. (1970). Art of the European Iron Age: a study of the elusive image. Adams & Dart. p. 173.
26. Early Celtic Art in Britain, Ruth and Vincent Megaw, p.29, accessed 16 August 2010
27. Bruce Veitch Award for Excellence in Indigenous Engagement Australian Archaeology Association
28. http://au.ibtimes.com/australian-archaeologist-dr-stephen-munro-discovers-earliest-human-engravings-discovered-400000-year
29. First People: the Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Central Victoria
30. "Family Notices.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 12 March 1947. p. 24. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
31. A. Rosenfeld and C. Smith. 1997 , "Recent developments in radiocarbon and stylistic methods of dating rock art". Antiquity 72 (272):405-11.
32. Sharon Sullivan biography, Land & Environment Court
33. "Thompson, J. A.". Retrieved 5 February 2013.
34. McNiven, Ian J.; Green, Mike Special issue in honour of Ron Vanderwal, The Artefact, 2010 Vol. 33, p2
35. Peter Veth and Sean Ulm, Dr Bruce Veitch, Australian Archaeology, Number 60, 2005
36. Arcaeho-Aus, Dr.Bruce Veitch Award
37. G.R.H. (Mick) Wright: A remarkable Australian archaeological architect, buried Historyvol.49, 2003

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