The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous Australia and New Guinea

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Professor Ian J. McNiven (Monash University and Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) is an anthropological archaeologist who specialises in understanding the long-term development of Australian Indigenous coastal societies with a focus on the archaeology of seascapes and ritual and spiritual relationships with the sea. He is an elected member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In addition to over 180 refereed journal papers and book chapters his 16 books include The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (OUP 2018) Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology (AltaMira Press 2005) and Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Fraser's Shipwreck (Leicester University Press 1998). Professor Bruno David (Monash University and Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) is an archaeologist who specialises in the archaeology of Australia and the western Pacific landscape archaeology and rock art. He has long-practiced transdisciplinary approaches to archaeology investigating the past through multiple disciplinary approaches in partnership research programs requested by local Indigenous communities. He has undertaken field research in Australia Egypt Papua New Guinea the U.S.A. and Vanuatu. He has published hundreds of academic and popular articles on various dimensions of archaeology and 17 books the most recent including: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (OUP 2018) Cave Art (Thames & Hudson 2017) and Hiri: Archaeology of Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea (University of Hawaii Press 2017). He currently researches community archaeology with the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation of East Gippsland southeastern Australia.