Sandra Bowdler

Dr Sandra Bowdler (born 1946) is an Australian archaeologist, emeritus professor of archaeology and former head of the Archaeology Department at the University of Western Australia.[1]

Bowdler completed an Honours degree in archaeology at the University of Sydney in 1971 and received her PhD from the Australian National University in 1979[2]. Bowdler's PhD thesis was on the Aboriginal archaeology of Hunter Island in the Bass Strait near Tasmania, which was later published in 1984[3].

Bowdler was appointed Professor of Archaeology at the University of Western Australia in 1983, where her research covered Australian Indigenous archaeology, and in particular Shark Bay, Tasmania[4] and coastal New South Wales, known as part of New England, as well as the pre-neolithic archaeology of East and Southeast Asia.[5] She was at various times a tutor of prehistory at the University of Papua New Guinea, a research scholar with the Department of Prehistory Research, School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University, lecturer in archaeology at the University of New England, Aboriginal sites consultant for the Forestry Commission of New South Wales and in private practice in Sydney, and professor of archaeology at the University of Western Australia. From 2008, Bowdler was an emeritus professor/honorary research fellow in archaeology, and an honorary senior research fellow in the School of Music, at UWA.[6]

As a member of the Australian Museum in 1964, she documented the Aboriginal burial site in the Balls Head rock shelter,[7] and has written extensively on the Aboriginal ceremonial Bora rings.[8]

In 2008, a special volume of the journal Australian Archaeology was published in Bowdler's honour. Edited by Jane Balme and Sue O'Connor, the special volume was titled More Unconsidered Trifles: Papers to Celebrate the Career of Sandra Bowdler and featured contributions from many of Bowdler's students.[9]

From 2015 to 2019, Bowdler was Editor of the journal Australian Archaeology[10].

References
  1. BIOGRAPHICAL ENTRY, Bowdler, Sandra (1946 - ) Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions
  2. Bowdler, Sandra; Clune, Genevieve (2000). "That shadowy band: The role of women in the development of Australian archaeology". Australian Archaeology. 50: 27–35. doi:10.1080/03122417.2000.11681663.
  3. Bowdler, Sandra (1984). Hunter Hill, Hunter Island: archaeological investigations of a prehistoric Tasmanian site. Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.
  4. Pardoe, Colin; Bowdler, Sandra; Brace, C. Loring; Plomley, N. J. B.; Turner, Christy G.; Wolfpoff, Milford H. (February 1991). "Isolation and Evolution in Tasmania [and Comments and Reply]". Current Anthropology. 32 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1086/203909.
  5. Bowdler, Sandra (1981). "Hunters in the Highlands: Aboriginal Adaptations in the Eastern Australian Uplands". Archaeology in Oceania. 16 (2): 99–111. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.1981.tb00014.x. ISSN 1834-4453.
  6. University of Western Australia Staff Profiles
  7. Bowdler, Sandra. "Balls Head: the excavation of a Port Jackson rock shelter. Records of the Australian Museum 28(7): 117–128, plates 17–21. [4 October 1971]" (PDF). AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS. Australian Museum. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  8. Bowdler, Sandra, 1999, A study of Indigenous ceremonial ("Bora") sites in eastern Australia, Centre for Archaeology, University of Western Australia, paper delivered at "Heritage Landscapes: Understanding Place &Communities" conference, Southern Cross University, Lismore, November 1999 Archived 14 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Balme, Jane; O'Connor, Sue (2008). "More Unconsidered Trifles: Papers to Celebrate the Career of Sandra Bowdler". Australian Archaeology. 67. JSTOR i40011561.
  10. "Editorial Advisory Board & Editorial Committee | Australian Archaeological Association | AAA". australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au. Retrieved 14 December 2019.


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