Curriculum Vitae

Archaeology from Australia, 2004

Archaeology from Australia is a snapshot of archaeological research in Australia at the beginning of the 21st century. This book brings together authors from across Australia in all areas of historic and prehistoric archaeology. Not only does it capture work being done in Australia but it also embraces the neighbouring arenas in the South Pacific, Melanesia and South East Asia as well as wide-ranging research further afield. As President of the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA), I find that this book provides an excellent overview of what are considered to be many of the important contemporary areas of Australian archaeological research. The Australian Archaeological Association is one of the largest archaeological organisations in Australia, with a diverse membership of professionals, students and others with an interest in archaeology. It represents the discipline of mainstream archaeology and, in its broadest sense, acts as a framework within which people can network, communicate and share ideas, expertise and experience. 1 In recent years, AAA has been a forum for debate and discourse on such topics as the interface between archaeological research and the traditional custodians of the land and the ethical dimensions of archaeology. The annual conference and the journal of the association (Australian Archaeology) together provide important forums for the exchange of ideas and the showcasing of current research. Importantly, Archaeology from Australia is a book that provides a bridge between the discipline and non-specialist audience. In an era where effective and clear communication is of paramount importance, this book fills a niche illustrating the diverse approaches and problems that combine under the umbrella called archaeology.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea, 2021

Most histories of Australian archaeology written in the past three decades imagine that the discipline came of age in (approximately) the year 1960. We are led to believe that systematic archaeological research, nuanced interpretations, and advocacy for the conservation of Aboriginal cultural heritage all date to the post-1960 era. Yet archaeological research in Australia has a lengthier and more complex genealogy. Here we use a series of case studies to explore the gradual development of the discipline during the twentieth century. We unpack key moments and projects during the early-to-mid twentieth century and examine the extent to which the so-called "professional" archaeologists of the 1960s overlapped with and depended upon the work of "amateur" scholars. We conclude by suggesting that the period of most rapid and significant change in archaeological thought and practice was precipitated by Aboriginal activism in the 1980s. Australia's First Peoples demanded control of research into their cultural heritage, a project which is ongoing today. Our discipline must encourage a culture of reflexivity on its current practices by coming to terms with rather than silencing its history (whether good, bad, or ugly).

Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online, 2011

Journal of Australian Studies, 2010

Australasian Historical Archaeology, 2002

Australian Archaeology, 1976

When Vere Gordon Childe returned to Australia in 1957 a er thirty-six years abroad, he despaired at the lack of research into Australia’s Aboriginal past. Australian archaeology was the domain of curators and stone tool collectors whose work was embedded in evolutionary assumptions and questionable practices. In the final weeks of his life, on 16 September 1957, Childe met and befriended the historian and archaeologist John Mulvaney. is paper draws on their brief en- counters to reflect on the state of archaeology in Australia in the 1950s, immediately before the boom in archaeological research in the 1960s that revolutionised the conventional narrative of Australian history. rough a close reading of the early years of Mulvaney’s career it argues that the excavations at Fromm’s Landing from 1956 to 1963 acted as a catalyst for research and marked the dawn of a new era for Australian Aboriginal archaeology. e excavation involved women and men, historians and archaeologists, teachers and students, and it produced the artefacts that underpinned Mulvaney’s landmark 1961 article, where he reviewed existing research and posed the large, continental questions that would dominate the next decade of archaeological investigation.

2007

The year 2006 was a busy year for the Flinders University Program in Maritime Archaeology Program. Several field projects were conducted by staff and postgraduate students both in Australia and abroad. The Maritime Archaeology Monograph Series publication "A Year in Review: 2006 Program in Maritime Archaeology" is a sampling of this field research. The projects covered include research conducted on historic shipwreck shelter huts, early colonial ship construction sites, whaling sites, geophysical investigations, and two general survey reports.

Archaeological research, site recording and management, Archaeology Branch, Department of Community Services, Brisbane, Australian Archaeology, 23:105-114., 1986

For the profession in general, and the world a t large, the Congress Secretariat has prepared a bulletin recording the events a t the centre of the storm which has stripped our discipline of its fancied innocence. Whatever the outcome, world archaeology will never be quite the same after Southampton as it was before.