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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

  1. Institution Name:
    University of Western Australia
  2. Department Title:
    Department of Archaeology, School of Cultural Studies
  3. Faculty in Historical/Underwater Archaeology:
    1. Paterson, Alistair (Ph.D., Sydney 2000; Lect.) historical archaeology, culture contact, pastoralism, Aboriginal history, relationship of history and archaeology, method and theory, field methods, material culture., rock art.
      Colleagues at the Western Australian Museum assist in teaching the post graduate courses in applied maritime archaeology including maritime archaeologists (Jeremy Green, Dr Michael McCarthy, Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Corioli Souter, Ross Anderson, Myra Stanbury), as well as expert curatorial staff, photographers, and industry partners in geophysics.
    2. Balme, Jane (Ph.D., ANU 1990, Sr. Lect.) Aboriginal Australian archaeology, subsistence and social organization, gender, spatial archaeology, method and theory.
    3. Porr, Martin (Ph.D., Southampton 2002; Lect.) Palaeolithic archaeology of Europe, archaeology of hunters and gatherers, art and archaeology, theoretical archaeology, human evolution, material culture studies.
    4. Brady, Liam (Ph.D. Monash 2005, Post Doctoral Fellow) rock art, Torres Strait, Cape York, and southwest Papua New Guinea, rock-art sites across Algonquin Provincial Park (Canada))
    5. Emeritus Professor Bowdler, Sandra (Ph.D., ANY 1979, Prof. Archaeology) Aboriginal Australia (esp. Shark Bay, Tasmania, coastal New South Wales), pre-Neolithic of East and Southeast Asia, midden analysis, stone artifact analysis, site management, Freudian archaeology, prehistoric and Viking Age Europe.
  4. General Statement:
    Archaeology at UWA was established in 1983 to provide a program of teaching in the discipline and discoveries of archaeology and also to focus on research in the rich heritage of Aboriginal society through to the present day from an archaeological perspective. Today it aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of the history of humans on earth, and particularly in Australia including colonial contexts, and to produce graduates capable of pursuing a professional career in an area of high demand. The centre offers a wide range of units in archaeology leading to the B.A. or B.Sc. degrees (pass or honours). The emphasis on the undergraduate course is on Australia and Europe, but other areas of special interest such as the Historical Archaeology, Rock Art, Asia and Indo-Pacific archaeology, and CRM are covered. Degrees offered include an M.A. (by research and thesis) as well as a Ph.D. We regularly produce research students in historical archaeology and maritime archaeology. In conjunction with the Western Australian Maritime Museum we offer a Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Applied Maritime Archaeology. This is next offered in 2011.
  5. For More Information Contact:
    Dr Alistair Paterson, Archaeology M405, School of Social and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; phone: +61-8-9380-2867; fax: +61-8-9380-1023; email: ,paterson@cyllene.uwa.edu.au; Web page: http://www.archaeology.arts.uwa.edu.au/.