This event is part of Melbourne Knowledge Week, 9–15 May 2022, and National Archaeology Week, 15–21 May. It is proudly presented by Aboriginal Melbourne, City of Melbourne, and Museums Victoria.
This talk will explore the Australian Stone Artefact Project. This is a major First Peoples project to enhance electronic and physical access to First Peoples Communities to over 250,000 artefacts.
During the last 18 months, and between COVID lockdowns Museums Victoria’s teams have worked to provide information and physical access to multiple First Peoples communities. This talk explores the project and its value to communities, including how access to these artefacts has resulted in new knowledges and connections.
About the speakers:
Uncle Dave Wandin is a Wurundjeri Elder, and Chairperson of Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation. He is runs educational sessions and tours discussing land management and the use of fire in land management. Uncle Dave also consults with universities and scientific organisations, providing his expertise and experience.
Delta Lucille Freedman. I am an anthropologist with a career trajectory in the fields of Victorian Traditional Owner cultural heritage, cultural values and natural resources management. As a researcher, I am committed to Traditional Owner self-determined approaches in project methods to ensure that research outcomes are community driven and for research prioritise to also be Traditional Owner led. My work frequently examines the Victorian contact-era ethnohistorical record and engaging with the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung community to document historical and cultural narratives in relation to places and landscapes via ethnohistorical and Indigenous knowledge recording.
Dr Caroline Spry is Senior Heritage Advisor and Archaeologist at Wurundjeri Corporation, Melbourne, Australia. She is also an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University. Caroline completed her PhD on stone tools that Aboriginal people made during and after the height of the last Ice Age at Lake Mungo, in the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area, southwestern New South Wales. She also works with Traditional Custodians to research and document Aboriginal culturally modified trees. Caroline is Co-chair of National Archaeology Week.
Dr Elspeth “Ebbe” Hayes is an Australian archaeologist who specialises in the study of stone tool function through usewear and residue analysis. She completed her PhD on the function of Aboriginal grinding tools from Madjedbebe and Lake Mungo, key archaeological sites in Australia. Ebbe has collaborated on several archaeological projects, including at Denisova Cave (Siberia), Liang Bua (Indonesia) and Madjedbebe (northern Australia). Ebbe is the current Director of MicroTrace Archaeology—an Australian-based archaeology consulting company that specialises in the microscopic study of stone tool wear. She is an Honorary Research Fellow for the Centre for Archaeological Science at the University of Wollongong.
Professor David Frankel studied archaeology at the University of Sydney before completing a PhD at Gothenburg University, Sweden. After working at The British Museum, he returned to Australia in 1978 where he lectured at La Trobe University until his retirement in 2013. David is Joint Editor of Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; and a Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. In 2015 he was awarded the Rhys Jones Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Australian Archaeology by the Australian Archaeological Association. David’s primary research interests are in Australian Aboriginal archaeology and the archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus. His most recent book is ‘Between the Murray and the Sea. Aboriginal Archaeology in Southeastern Australia’.
When: 3-4pm AEST, Sunday 15 May 2022
Where: Online
To register: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/tickets/melbournemuseum/whats-on/connecting-communities-to-collections/
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