Greg is investigating the implications of nineteenth century industry for Aboriginal cultural heritage and its management in Victoria. He also has some valuable life lessons to share about tarpaulins.
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Carly is a zooarchaeologist, which means she works with the remains of animals from archaeological contexts. Her particular interest is in what animal bones can tell us about people's relationships with animals (including what they ate) and the broader environment in which they lived.
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Emma’s favourite memory of working in archaeology so far was standing for two hours on a beach talking one on one with an Aboriginal traditional owner who explained the islands and the landscape, as far as the eye could see.
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One of Matthew’s most interesting discoveries has been a So Fresh 2004 CD (Winter Edition) in almost perfect working condition …
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Tim has found that archaeology is fantastic career, if you like to explore new places. From camping at night in the Simpson Desert to waking up in the morning and watching whales off Cape Moreton, amazing experiences are pretty common.
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Lynley is just putting the finishing touches on a long-term project investigating the archaeology of the Native Mounted Police which has covered all of Queensland, before starting on a new project that is focused on archaeology and rock art in the sandstone country of southeast Cape York Peninsula.
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In Brent’s work, he has been able to demonstrate, through experiment, that an archaeological trench also functions effectively as an air raid trench.
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Claire enjoys the opportunity provided by archaeology to investigate history from different points of view, and to think about how people often excluded from history books may have experienced events.
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Louise was inspired by Lawrence of Arabia to follow a career in archaeology, and her current projects include Tell es-Safi/Gath, Philistine City of Goliath, Israel; and the Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi Survey Project, Lakonia, Greece. It all sounds very glamorous, until she mentions amoebic dysentery.
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In Kimberley’s doctoral research, she is exploring how food was used to shape behaviour in nineteenth-century institutions, comparing sites in Quebec, Canada, and Sydney, Australia.
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Sean’s current projects focus on modelling how Sahul was peopled, when different islands were first occupied and what the submerged archaeological landscapes of Australia's vast continental shelves can tell us about this history of the continent.
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Caroline decided to be an archaeologist after volunteering on an excavation at the Glenrowan Inn, the site of the Kelly gang’s last stand. She now wears many hats, including self-confessed rock nerd!
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Morgan has worked all over Australia, as well as in Jordan and Turkey. This year, coinciding with National Archaeology Week, alongside Aboriginal stakeholders, Morgan and the EMM heritage team will be commencing an excavation of Aboriginal midden sites on the Kurnell Peninsula.
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Christopher is an archaeologist, faunal analyst, and lithic artefact specialist. Current projects include analysis of faunal remains from a cesspit - he has found 13 different species of bird so far!
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Christine decided to become an archaeologist when she was in Year 7 and never looked back. She now directs her own company and has surrounded herself with a team of people who are as nerdy about history and archaeology as she is!
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Grace is an artefact specialist and photographer, and is currently cataloguing stone artefacts from an assemblage with a date range extending back to the Pleistocene (2.8 million years to 12 thousand years ago), and photographing historical artefacts from sites around Melbourne, Victoria.
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Michael is just getting started on his archaeological career, and is already analysing lithic artefacts from Drysdale, in the Geelong area of Victoria.
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Nadia wrote down a list of things she wanted from a job: history, travel, writing, outdoors and indoors options. The search pretty much just came up with one choice, archaeology.
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Bronwyn is a historical artefact specialist. She is currently working on the assemblages from sites in Sydney and Melbourne, partway along the painstaking process from finding the artefacts to interpreting what people were doing at the sites, who they were and how they lived day to day.
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James has a focus on the historical archaeology of the Pacific region, and has also recently completed a long-term project in Tasmania, which was a field school excavation of a site used from the 1840s onwards. For those interested in finding out more, James has provided links to some of his publications!
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