University of Auckland

University of Auckland Archaeology

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University of Auckland Anthropology page

The student society, Archsoc is open to anyone inside the university or not. It is reputedly the oldest society on campus - which is of course appropriate.

Some snippets on the history of the Anthropology Department can be found in Pawley 2003a and 2003b.

Current archaeologists on staff include:

Professors:

• Emeritus Professor Geoff Irwin FRSNZ, Hon. Fellow Soc. Antiquaries (Lon.): Oceanic and New Zealand archaeology.
• Professor Simon Holdaway: Australian, New Zealand and Palaeolithic archaeology, stone artefact analysis, theory and GIS. Current Head of Department of Anthropology.
• Professor Thegn Ladefoged: Oceanic prehistory, socio-political transformation, agricultural development, GIS.
• Professor Peter Sheppard: Melanesia, Solomon Islands, processes of social transformation, geoarchaeology. Current Director for the Centre for Archaeological Research and Current Head of Department of Classics and Ancient History.

Associate Professors:

• Associate Professor Harry Allen ONZM: New Zealand, Australian and South East Asian archaeology, and cultural resource management. Coordinator for Museums and Cultural Heritage Programme.
• Associate Professor Melinda Allen: Oceanic prehistory, paleoenvironmental studies, marine zooarchaeology, human ecology.
• Associate Professor Judith Littleton, Human osteology and health, fieldwork in Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

Research fellors/technicians:

• Dilys Johns: Conservation, wet organic archaeological materials, wetland archaeological sites.
• Dr Rod Wallace: charcoal.

Past staff members include:

• Emeritus Professor Roger Green ONZM, FRSNZ, member Nat. Acad. Sci.(USA), Hon. Fellow Soc. Antiquaries (Lon.)
• Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith: Biological Anthropology specialising in Pacific Prehistory (now at University of Otago).
• Professor Peter Bellwood
• Dr Richard Cassels
• Lady Aileen Fox
• Professor Jack Golson
• Dr Les Groube
• Wilfred Shawcross
• Dr Rod Clough
• Dr Marianne Turner

References

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