Neale Draper

Flinders University of South Australia, Department of Archaeology, Faculty Member

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Associate Professor Neale Draper is the principal heritage consultant of Neale Draper & Associates Pty Ltd., conducting cultural heritage research and management projects across Australia. Neale has more than 40 years of experience in cultural heritage management (government, industry, and community-based) and as a researcher, academic, public servant, and expert witness in the fields of anthropology and archaeology. He has worked on many significant cultural heritage projects with indigenous people throughout Australia, as well as in the USA, Mongolia and Taiwan. He has provided expert reports and testimony on cultural heritage management issues in relation to major resources and infrastructure projects, and has supervised or conducted more than 500 Aboriginal Heritage projects and reports, many of these while CEO and Principal Heritage consultant of Australian cultural Heritage Management Pty Ltd from 1999 to 2015. Neale also has produced Native Title expert reports in SA, WA, NSW, VIC and QLD.
Neale is an Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the Flinders University of South Australia. He is also the deputy chairperson of the Lake Victoria Advisory Committee for the Murray Darling Basin Authority, which manages heritage protection for the highly significant Aboriginal Cultural Landscape at Lake Victoria (a critically important water supply reservoir along the Murray River), including many traditional burial and archaeological sites.
Neale is member of three international scientific committees of UNESCO’s International Committee on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He is an expert member of the International Scientific Committees on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) and Intangible cultural Heritage (ICICH), a contributing member of the International Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL), as well as a member of the ICOMOS Australia National Scientific Committees for Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Routes (NSC-CLCR) and Intangible Cultural Heritage (NSC-ICH).
Address: Neale Draper & Associates
PO Box 366 PROSPECT, South Australia 5082

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Banjima Culture and the Hope Downs 1 Mine

Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians. Raymond B. Hames , William T. Vickers

Journal of Anthropological Research, Jul 1, 1984

Islands of the dead? Prehistoric occupation of Kangaroo Island and other southern offshore islands and watercraft use by Aboriginal Australians

Quaternary International, Oct 1, 2015

Kangaroo Island has long been a source of creation mythology for Indigenous Australians. Over the... more Kangaroo Island has long been a source of creation mythology for Indigenous Australians. Over the last century, it has also been a source of creation mythology for Australian archaeology. The theme of the archaeological mythology has been the notion, based on culture-historical interpretations of stone artefact typologies, that the Island was occupied by people belonging to successive large-tool ("Kartan") and small-tool "Cultures". A fundamental tenet of the "Kartan Mystery" has been the notion that the Island was abandoned for several thousand years prior to the European colonisation of South Australia, and following the attainment of modern sea-levels, the Indigenous people of southern Australia lacked either the watercraft or the will to continue to inhabit Kangaroo Island and other offshore islands along the southern coastline. From at least as far east as Tasmania to as far west as Rottnest Island off Fremantle (Western Australia), there are islands which have a prehistoric archaeological record and/or an ethnographic status as uninhabited "Islands of the Dead" for adjacent, mainland or Tasmanian Aboriginal societies. This paper explores these notions and refers to evidence that Aboriginal Australians of the southern Australian coastal regions both used watercraft and visited offshore islands such as Kangaroo Island throughout the pre-colonial Holocene period.

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