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Dr Anne (Annie) Clarke-
The Indigenous Archaeology of Northern Australia, focusing on Eastern Arnhem Land. The art and archaeology of cross-cultural interactions.
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Associate Professor Alison Betts-
Associate Professor Alison Betts' teaching and research interests include: archaeology and history of nomadic peoples. This research theme has led Associate Professor Betts down a wide variety of paths including the prehistory of the North Arabian steppe, rock art, hunting traps and water harvesting systems, the origins of nomadic pastoralism in the Near East, nomad-state relations, the Bronze Age of Central Asia and the early development of the Zoroastrian faith.
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Dr Melissa Carter-
Dr Carter's project on the archaeology of Santa Isabel in the central Solomon Islands represents the first comprehensive archaeological research program on the island. By undertaking archaeological fieldwork in the study area of Kia on the northwestern Isabel coast, her research aims to address broad questions about the timing and nature of human settlement in the Solomons, as well as the emergence of late prehistoric regional cultural complexes documented elsewhere in the Solomons and the wider Island Melanesian region.
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Dr Sarah Colley-
Dr Colley has extensive archaeological fieldwork and research experience in Australia, the UK and elsewhere. Her current research interests include Australian pre-historic (Indigenous) and historical archaeology of the Sydney region, public archaeology and teaching and learning in archaeology.
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Dr Kate da Costa-
Dr de Costa holds an ARC research fellowship and grant to study the Roman Borders of Arabia and Palaestina (BAP), involving field work in northwest Jordan. This follows from her undergraduate and doctoral interests working at Pella (University of Sydney), Umm Qais (various German projects) and Deir Ain Abata (British Museum).
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Dr Trudy Doelman-
Dr Trudy Doelman has a Diploma of Teaching (Auckland College of Education), a BA and MA (honours) in Anthropology from the University of Auckland and PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her PhD focused on the technological and spatial analyses, using a GIS, of mid Holocene quarries in arid zone WNSW and the formation and distribution of the resulting assemblages using a non-site distributional archaeological approach to the landscape.
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Professor Roland John Fletcher-
Professor Fletcher's fields of expertise are the theory and philosophy of archaeology, the study of settlement growth and decline and the analysis of large-scale cultural phenomena over time. In 1995 he published The Limits of Settlement Growth: a theoretical outline - an analysis of the past 15,000 years of settlement-growth and decline - with Cambridge University Press.
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Dr Martin Gibbs-
Dr Martin Gibbs is Senior Lecturer in Australian Archaeology. He has worked, taught and researched in Australian prehistoric, historic and maritime archaeology and heritage management over the last twenty years, with occasional forays into other regions of the Pacific.
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Dr Fiona Kidd-
Since 1999 she has been working at the site of Kazakl’i-yatkan in ancient Chorasmia as a member of the collaborative Karakalpak-Australian Expedition to Chorasmia. She is currently co-field director at the site.
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Professor Margaret Miller-
Professor Miller studied classics at the University of British Columbia (BA) and Oxford University (BA), and classical archaeology at Harvard University (AM, PhD) and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She has excavated in England, Egypt, Greece and Turkey.
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Dr Dougald O'Reilly-
Dr O'Rielly's activities mainly focus on prehistoric Southeast Asia. Recent fieldwork included the excavation of an Iron Age site in Northwest Cambodia.
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Professor Daniel Potts-
Professor Potts' fieldwork has been mainly conducted in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the experience on working on multi-period sites has meant that my interests extend, chronologically, from the Neolithic to the Islamic conquest. He is interested in the evolution of technology (ceramic, metallurgical, agricultural), political systems, and economic organisation.
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Dr Ted Robinson-
Dr Robinson's research is mostly directed at the question of the relationships between Greeks and indigenous Italians in South Italy, and he has pursued that study in a number of different ways: survey, excavation, archaeometry, iconography and the study of individual artefact classes. Dr Robinson is currently working on a monograph on the subject, centred around The Xenon Group (overpainted pottery from South-Eastern Italy); he is also preparing a study which seeks to reintepret the famous "Tomb of the Diver" at Paestum.
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Dr Damian Evans-
Dr Evans joined the staff of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory (ACL) in 2001, and now holds an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008-2010). Funded projects include a program of mapping the urban context of several Hindu-Budhhist temple complexes in Cambodia (Banteay Chmar, Angkor, Preah Khan of Kompong Svay, Beng Melea, Sambor Prei Kuk, Koh Ker) using remote sensing and ground-based investigations, with a view to conducting a regional comparative study of early settlements and hydraulic works.
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Dr Bob Hudson-
Dr Bob Hudson specialises in the archaeology of the early urban systems of Myanmar (Burma). He is an Honorary Associate with the Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, and a Visiting Professor at the Myanmar Field School of Archaeology at Pyay, Myanmar.
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Dr Peter Jia-
Dr Peter Jia has a BA in China and MA in Anthropology from Macquarie University, and PhD from the University of Sydney. He has been working in East Asian archaeology for many years.
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Dr Ian Johnson-
Dr Johnson has a particular interest in distributed databases and time-enabled GIS (the TimeMap project), field methods of data collection, and extensive fieldwork experience in Europe and Australia. His role as Director of the ACL includes development of the facility, advice to other staff members, supervision of research students, teaching 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates and running training courses for professional archaeologists.
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Dr Lesley Beaumont-
Dr Beaumont's primary research interests focus on the iconography and social history of childhood in Classical antiquity and on the archaeology of East Greece, in particular the island of Chios where she co-directs the Kato Phana Archaeological Project.
Archaeology
Summary
Archaeology provides a vivid understanding of how the past informs our present. The department specialises in classical archaeology of the Mediterranean (Greece and Italy), the Middle East (Jordan, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran), Western and Central Asia, Cambodia and Australia, with annual fieldwork taking place in most of these areas. Another focus is public archaeology and cultural heritage.
Supervisor(s)
Dr Anne (Annie) Clarke, Associate Professor Alison Betts, Dr Melissa Carter, Dr Sarah Colley, Dr Kate da Costa, Dr Trudy Doelman, Professor Roland John Fletcher, Dr Martin Gibbs, Dr Fiona Kidd, Professor Margaret Miller, Dr Dougald O'Reilly, Professor Daniel Potts, Dr Ted Robinson, Dr Damian Evans, Dr Bob Hudson, Dr Peter Jia, Dr Ian Johnson, Dr Lesley Beaumont
Research Location
Department of Archaealogy, Faculty of Arts
Program Type
Synopsis
Postgraduate students often have the opportunity to participate in fieldwork projects. Students have access to unique facilities such as the Spatial Innovation Unit, Archaeology Computing laboratory and Archaeology Teaching Laboratory, which features the latest fieldwork equipment.
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Keywords
classical archaeology, classical antiquity, iconography, historical archaeology, archaeology of Italy, archaeology of Greece, Iranian archaeology, Mesopotamia, Arabian archaeology, Indo-Iranian borderlands, West Asian archaeology, Central Asian archaeology, East Asian archaeology, South East Asian archaeology, Pacific archaeology, Australian archaeology, Aboriginal pre-history, archaeological theory, urbanism, settlement archaeology, ancient states and empires, ancient economy, public archaeology, heritage studies, Archaeozoology
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 438