Staff profile:Dr Val Attenbrow
- Position title:
- Principal Research Scientist
- Section:
- Anthropology/Archaeology
- Branch:
- Research
- Division:
- Research & Collections
- Phone:
- +612 9320 6196
- Email:
- Contact Val Attenbrow using the form below
Profile
Publications by Dr. Val Attenbrow
Qualifications
BA(Hons) University of Sydney
PhD University of Sydney
Awards
Life Membership, Australian Archaeology Association
Mulvaney Book Award, Australian Archaeology Association
Professional Memberships
Australian Archaeological Association (Life Member)
Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology
Australian Association of Consulting Archaeology (Associate)
Research Projects
- Evolution of technology and tool use in 10,000 years of Aboriginal prehistory
- Late Holocene mega-tsunamis and the coastal archaeological record of New South Wales
- Marine carbon reservoir variability along the New South Wales south coast
Pages
- Introduction to Aboriginal Sydney
- Life on the coast of Sydney
- References: Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney
- Aboriginal place names around Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay
- Place names chart
- Clans and language groups
- Clan names chart
- Fish, maugro
- Net bags and bark baskets
- Fishing line, carrejun
- Fishing and fishing gear
- Fishhooks, berá
- Fishing spears, callarr, mooting
- About canoes
- Building a canoe - noe, nowey
- Handling a canoe
- Food from the sea: mammals, birds and turtles
- Food from the sea: shellfish and crustaceans
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