Personnel
The team at ARCHAEO CHS is made of experts from a variety of areas of expertise. This allows us provide the team needed to handle your projects. Read further about each of our Directors and Consultants
The Directors
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Our Staff
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ARCHAEO's Associates
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Ben Gall
Built Heritage Specialist
Ben brings considerable experience in assessment, interpretation, conservation management advice and project management for a extremely broad range of historic heritage sites.
This experience embraces all facets of historic and built environments, including; historical survey work, site analysis and interpretation, significance assessment, design and conservation management advice, impact assessment, works supervision and adaptive re-use initiatives. Ben also offers advice and project management of local, state and national conservation grants and is a member of the ARCHAEO team that is a preferred panel of heritage consultants to the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage. Coupled with this experience, Ben owns and resides in a property registered on the Queensland Heritage Register.
Ben prides himself in his ability to provide his clients and colleagues with practical, relevant and straightforward advice at all levels, whilst continually maintaining high levels of integrity and commonsense. Ben has many awards and acknowledgements for outstanding achievements in this area. Ben is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Australia.
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Simon Gall
Archaeologist and Facilitator
Simon joined the Company after returning from Europe where he worked three years as a field archaeologist and cultural heritage consultant for museums and local government. During this time Simon participated in a number of projects including several major archaeological mapping and survey projects, development of museum exhibitions and as archaeologist in charge of field operations for several major excavations.
Since joining the team at ARCHAEO, Simon has been involved in a variety of cultural heritage projects incorporating cultural heritage assessment, archaeological survey, Indigenous consultation and he has also worked as cultural heritage officer to local government here in Queensland. Simon's interests focus particularly on landscape archaeology and cultural heritage management.
In 1999 Simon was awarded a scholarship from the Hungarian Ministry of Education to undertake postgraduate studies in Archaeology at ELTE University in Budapest. He is a member of the Australian Archaeology Association.
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Ann Wallin
Archaeologist and Facilitator
Ann is highly respected for her experience with Indigenous consultation, Native Title and cultural heritage procedures and management and her cultural heritage activities have included major briefs for a range of local and State Government agencies, Aboriginal communities, as well as environmental and engineering planning companies. Her wide experience embraces all facets of archaeological and historical survey work, excavations and Aboriginal community consultation.
Ann has worked as a technical advisor on heritage issues with a range of organisations, including the (Qld.) Department of Main Roads and numerous Traditional Owner groups, including the: Indjilandji; Jagera; Jinibara; and Kabi Kabi people.
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Craig Barrett
Historian
Craig brings to the team a wide range of experience in historical research and cultural heritage consultancy. Craig was previously employed by Histori|co, the commercial arm of the Centre for Applied History and Heritage Studies at the University of Queensland. Craig's work included the provision of contextual histories for a variety of cultural heritage projects, including the North South Bypass Tunnel and the Brisbane Foreshores Parkland Project. He also spent a period of time working at the Brisbane City Council Heritage Unit, where he assisted in the completion of the Unit's contribution to the Central Business District Master Plan.
Craig's academic experience includes the coordination of undergraduate courses at the University of Queensland and co-convener of an international conference examining the return of soldiers in November 2007. He is also in the process of completing his PhD, which examines the history of representation of Australian Prisoners of War of the Japanese. Craig is also a full member of Australia ICOMOS.
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Stefani Blackmore
Archaeologist
Stefani brings to the team many skills related to Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural heritage practice. Stefani's previous work, especially with (what was then known as) QSNTS, has included the provision of a variety services to Native Title Determination Application claimants, including anthropological and related research required for the preparation and presentation of Native Title Determination Applications before the Federal Court.
Additionally, Stefani has experience in a wide variety of projects for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous (historic) cultural heritage as a professional consultant.
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Ian Fox
Indigenous Heritage Specialist
Ian has specialised experience in community consultation and cultural mapping, he has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) and is currently completing his PhD on the mapping the cultural landscape of the Bundjalung (part of the Bundjalung Mapping Project). This project is designed to enhance the capacity of the Indigenous communities to effectively engage in cultural and ecologically sustainable management, through the use of cultural database which maps both heritage information and community cultural information. This project is being carried out through a partnership with Southern Cross University and the Bundjalung nation.
Through the Bundjalung project, Ian has developed extensive experience with community consultation and more importantly, has gained the trust and respect of the Bundjalung and other northern NSW nations. Ian has also prepared several Cultural Heritage Management Plans, including the Tweed Shire Council CHMP, the Aboriginal chapter of the State of the Darling report and an analysis of Far and Mid North Coast (NSW) State of the Environment reports for land Use conflict issues.
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Gordon Grimwade
Archaeologist and Built Heritage Specialist
Gordon has over twenty years experience in cultural heritage site assessment and management, including rural, mining, military and infrastructure heritage. Gordon's particular skills are in site recording and assessment (historical and Aboriginal sites), mining heritage, project management, and interpretation. Gordon has extensive experience with industrial heritage sites through north and northwest Queensland. His expertise in Chinese settlement studies in Australia is internationally recognised. Many projects have resulted in clients receiving prestigious heritage and tourism awards. Gordon has published widely and led numerous projects involving interpretation and management of significant cultural heritage places such as CSR Ltd at New Farm Sugar Refinery (1893 -1988) early twentieth century maritime structures for Cairns Port Authority.
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Dr. Phillip Habgood
Archaeologist and Paleoanthropologist
Phillip has a varied background incorporating study and research, extensive archaeological fieldwork in Australia and overseas, regular publication in journals and books, teaching at university level, and over 15 years' experience working within the Queensland Public Service in various roles in a number of Departments. Phillip's areas of research interest include world prehistory especially the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic transition, Australian prehistory with a focus on the late Pleistocene, the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in western Asia, human evolution especially the origin and spread of modern humans and physical anthropology.
Currently, Phillip is involved in two major field programs. At Pella, a multi-period Tell site in Jordan, Phillip is one of the senior field staff and focuses on the excavation and analysis of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods with an emphasis on investigating patterns of urbanisation at the site and analysing the stone tools. At Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, a Middle Palaeolithic site in southern Spain, Phillip is collaborating on the excavation and analysis of Neanderthal skeletal material.
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Karen Townrow
Archaeologist
Karen's experience encompasses historic and indigenous cultural heritage surveys, heritage assessments, historic research and salvage excavations. Karen has also implemented an archiving program for a Western Australian private school and been involved in eco and cultural tourism in the sub-Antarctic an a 12 month program of excavations on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Karen's expertise is reflected in her impressive publication record, including several monographs and, in various archaeological journals and by the Tasmanian Royal Society.
Karen's recent work as a Case Manager with the National Native Title Tribunal has given her valuable experience in native title matters in the Far North Queensland/Cape York region. In this role, her skills as a project manager/facilitator and her knowledge of Aboriginal culture have significantly contributed to her broad based and extensive expertise in cultural heritage matters.
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Douglas Hobbs
Archaeologist and Illustrator
Doug offers 30 years experience in archaeological research and consulting, in Australia and overseas. He began his archaeological career in 1972 excavating in the Middle East followed by a number of expeditions in the Horn of Africa with the British Institute of Archaeology. He returned to Australia and in 1979 appointed as Professional Officer in the Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW. The duties required a wide range of skills balanced between administration, research and teaching. As part of his role Doug established and managed computer systems in the Department from 1984-2002, and researched and developed advanced methods of data recovery and collection, analysis and publication.
Other skills include qualifications in photography and cinematography, surveying, remote sensing, mapping and cartography. Doug has management and negotiating skills with Indigenous stakeholders and proponents, and a high level of literacy and technical understanding.
Through his research Doug has built associations with various institutions including: the Archaeological Survey of Indonesia (ARKENIS), Jakarta; the Geological Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), Bandung, Indonesia; the Senkenburg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany; University of Cambridge, UK; the British Institute of Archaeology, London, UK; Auckland University, NZ; University of New England, Armidale, NSW; University of Wollongong, NSW; James Cook University, Townsville, Qld; Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery, Darwin, NT.
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Dr. Mark Moore
Archaeologist and Lithic Specialist
Mark became interested in archaeology when, as a six-year-old, he found his first stone tool in a ploughed paddock. In his early teens he taught himself how to flake stone into Native American-style points and knives. This experience led to archaeology as a career path with a specialty in stone tool analysis. Mark took part in research digs across the midwestern United States and Alaska, culminating in a BA (Indiana University, 1987) and MA (Ball State University, 1990). Mark worked as a stone tool specialist in Nevada for six years and served as principal investigator on a number of large consultancy projects.
He emigrated with his family to Australia in 1996, where he continued working as a consultant in New South Wales, Tasmania, and Queensland until returning to university in 2002. Mark received his PhD (University of New England) in 2005 and is currently an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the University of New England. His research involves tracking the evolution of cognition in humans through the analysis of stone flaking techniques, with an emphasis on the stone tools made by the 'hobbits' (Homo floresiensis) of Liang Bua Cave, Flores, Indonesia. Reconstructing stone reduction sequences is his particular expertise, and Mark has published extensively on North American, Australian, and Southeast Asian stone flaking technology.
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