Associate ProfessorPatrick Faulkner
Chair of Discipline (Archaeology)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Chair of Discipline (Archaeology)Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Coastal palaeoeconomies
Summary of opportunity:
Research interests
- Coastal palaeoeconomies, with a principal focus on the tropics
- Australian archaeology, zooarchaeology (molluscs) and taphonomy
- Human ecology, economics, human-environment interactions and technology
Opportunity synopsis:
Pat Faulkner is a zooarchaeologist whose research focusses on the investigation of human-environment interactions in tropical environments. As a coastal archaeologist and specialist archaeomalacologist, he has undertaken collaborative research across Australasia, the Pacific, Sri Lanka, Oman, and the offshore islands of eastern Africa. Pat is the recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship (2022-2026 - FT200100464) working on the project 'From the Rainforest to the Coast: Deep-Time Human-Environmental Interactions in South Asia'.
----------Current Research Projects----------
- The archaeology and historical ecology of eastern African coasts and islands
- Long-term human-environment interactions in Sri Lanka (FT200100464)
- Earliest village people: the shift to sedentary life in the Natufian period (DP210102250) - with Associate Professor Phillip Edwards (La Trobe University)
- Global South Anthropocene Project - with Professor Nicole Boivin (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology)
- Occupation and molluscan resource use on Australian freshwater ecosystems
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION'When We Were Whalers: Australian Shore-Based Whaling 1945-1980'
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA review of the Art and Archaeology of the Burbung ceremony of southeast Australia: ethnographic and archaeological insights
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA spatial analysis of raw material sources and ground edge hatchets in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONA taphonomic analysis of the faunal remains from Wybalenna, Tasmania
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAquatic Vertebrates in Vietnam's Neolithic Economies
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBound for Botany Bay: the human and environmental history of the Botany Basin to the point of European contact
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBroughton Island: an archaeological study of human coastal occupation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCoastal Living: Environmental Changes and Human Responses in Southern Sri Lanka in the mid-to-late Holocene
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONCore reduction strategies across Australia
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMorphological Variation of Ground-edged Artefacts within the Sydney Basin
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONQuantifying and Analysing Aboriginal Grindstone Quarry Production An example from Brumby Yard, Mithaka Country, Queensland
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSociality and Proximity in Hunter-Gatherer Settlements
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe natural and cultural history of the dingo: a 3D geometric morphometric investigation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTime and relative dimension in space: Untangling site formation and taphonomic processes on archaeological shell from the tropical Indo-Pacific
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONTracing Resilience: An Investigation into the Coastal Archaeology of GunaiKurnai Country (Gippsland, Victoria)
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONUsing Economic Intensification to interpret population change in the dry zone of southeast Sri Lanka through the analysis of Holocene middens