Job Description
The Opportunity
Up to 3 PhD scholarships are offered as important parts of an ARC-funded project Katungal: Managing Archaeological Sites Threatened by Sea Level Rise, conducted by a team of transdisciplinary researchers co-ordinated by Elder Uncle Russell Mullett of the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC) and Professor Bruno David of Monash University.
These PhD projects will be part of the broader ARC project that aims to investigate the deep-time Aboriginal occupation of the shoreline and near-shore environments of Gippsland, GunaiKurnai Country, Victoria. The successful PhD candidates will each be expected to archaeologically excavate, analyse and write-up for their PhDs the results one or more ancestral cultural sites such as shell “middens” in GunaiKurnai Country. The successful PhD candidates are expected to have reasonable excavation experience, but will be mentored into fine-grained excavation methods approved by bo...