Dr Martin Gibbs
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About 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. He is currently President of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology.
Dr Martin Gibbs’ research interests include: Convict Archaeology, The convict system of Western Australia (1850-1868), Convict Stockades of New South Wales Cultural Processes in Maritime Sites and Places, Maritime Industries and Colonial Settlement: Whaling and Sealing, Cultural behaviours and formation processes associated with shipwreck events, Shipwreck survivor camps: Late Pre-historic and Early Contact Period Cultural Change in Australia and the western Pacific, Cross-cultural contact on Maritime Frontiers, Aboriginal involvement in 19th century mining, Ethnohistory of Australian Aboriginal ceremonial and trade networks. Midwest Archaeological Survey, European colonisation on an Industrial Frontier in Western Australia (1849-1880) 5 Archaeology of the Solomon Islands (with Dr David Roe & Dr Melissa Carter) Archaeology of Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, The 16th century Spanish exploration and failed colonisation of the Solomon Islands, Solomon Islands National Museum archaeological site data digitisation and Remote Sensing for Australian Archaeology.