Ian Lilley
I am now an Emeritus Professor in retirement but continue to do archaeological and heritage research across Australasia and the Indo-Pacific and write about the place of archaeology and heritage in contemporary society globally. I also hold the Willem Willems Chair for Contemporary Issues in Archaeological Heritage Management at Leiden University in the Netherlands, now on a visiting basis. Much of my recent research and writing emphasizes issues of "indigenization", broadly construed to encompass the interests and concerns of local and descendant communities. I am also interested in questions of mutual translation amongst stakeholders in archaeological and heritage work on the conceptual as well as technical level, and about how archaeological and heritage interests can be advanced by joining them to larger public agendas and vice versa, locally and globally.
I am an advisor to international clients such as the US Defense Department, Rio Tinto and the UNESCO World Heritage Advisory Bodies ICOMOS and IUCN as well as numerous private- and public-sector agencies and industry groups in Australia and internationally. I have run my own private heritage consulting practice and managed the University of Queensland's archaeological consulting group UQCHU. For five years I was also retained as Archaeologist (Queensland Region) by Kinhill Engineers, then one of Australasia's largest civil and environmental engineering groups. I played a key role in the development of Rio Tinto’s 2011 global guidelines for heritage management and was contributing editor of a 2010 thematic study on Early Human Expansion and Innovation in the Pacific for ICOMOS in Paris. In 2016, I led an invited delegation to the World Bank-IMF Civil Society Forum, Washington (in association with World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting) to discuss cultural heritage protection and in 2015 I co-ordinated a global response from international archaeological bodies to a major review of World Bank environmental and social safeguards, focussing on cultural heritage.
I have undertaken three field assessments of World Heritage nominations for ICOMOS: the Kuk Early Agricultural Site in Papua New Guinea in 2007, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawai’i in 2009 and the Rock Islands Southern Lagoon in Palau (Micronesia) in 2011. All three cases required particular attention to Indigenous/non-Western values and management approaches. I have been invited to undertake a number of other such missions but was unavailable owing to other commitments. I have also undertaken international "Upstream" advisory missions and "Reactive Monitoring" missions for ICOMOS as well as numerous desk assessments for ICOMOS and IUCN. I have formally advised on World Heritage nominations in Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, the USA and Vietnam and was Secretary-General of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage management from 2009-2017 inclusive. Currently I am a member of the Advisory Group for an IUCN-ICOMOS-ICCROM-UNESCO World Heritage Centre project to update the Enhancing Our Heritage (EoH) Toolkit, to improve management effectiveness at World Heritage properties, particularly with regard to cultural values.
I am co-authoring two books in French on archaeology in New Caledonia and am contracted to Cambridge University Press to co-author a volume on Australian archaeology. I have published over 100 scholarly works and contributed reviews and commentary to learned journals and the quality press. My most influential books include:
Lilley, I. (ed.) 2006 Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands. Oxford: Blackwell.
Anderson, A., I. Lilley and S. O’Connor (eds) 2001 Histories of Old Ages. Essays in honour of Rhys Jones. Canberra: Pandanus Books.
Lilley, I. (ed.) 2000 Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World. Sydney: Oceania Monographs (re-issued 2007 AltaMira/UCL Press USA/UK).
Galipaud, J-C. and I. Lilley (eds) 1999 Le Pacifique de 5000 a 2000 avant le présent. Suppléments à l’histoire d’une colonisation. Paris: Éditions d’IRD.
Address: School of Social Science
University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
Australia
I am an advisor to international clients such as the US Defense Department, Rio Tinto and the UNESCO World Heritage Advisory Bodies ICOMOS and IUCN as well as numerous private- and public-sector agencies and industry groups in Australia and internationally. I have run my own private heritage consulting practice and managed the University of Queensland's archaeological consulting group UQCHU. For five years I was also retained as Archaeologist (Queensland Region) by Kinhill Engineers, then one of Australasia's largest civil and environmental engineering groups. I played a key role in the development of Rio Tinto’s 2011 global guidelines for heritage management and was contributing editor of a 2010 thematic study on Early Human Expansion and Innovation in the Pacific for ICOMOS in Paris. In 2016, I led an invited delegation to the World Bank-IMF Civil Society Forum, Washington (in association with World Bank-IMF Spring Meeting) to discuss cultural heritage protection and in 2015 I co-ordinated a global response from international archaeological bodies to a major review of World Bank environmental and social safeguards, focussing on cultural heritage.
I have undertaken three field assessments of World Heritage nominations for ICOMOS: the Kuk Early Agricultural Site in Papua New Guinea in 2007, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawai’i in 2009 and the Rock Islands Southern Lagoon in Palau (Micronesia) in 2011. All three cases required particular attention to Indigenous/non-Western values and management approaches. I have been invited to undertake a number of other such missions but was unavailable owing to other commitments. I have also undertaken international "Upstream" advisory missions and "Reactive Monitoring" missions for ICOMOS as well as numerous desk assessments for ICOMOS and IUCN. I have formally advised on World Heritage nominations in Cambodia, Japan, Malaysia, the USA and Vietnam and was Secretary-General of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage management from 2009-2017 inclusive. Currently I am a member of the Advisory Group for an IUCN-ICOMOS-ICCROM-UNESCO World Heritage Centre project to update the Enhancing Our Heritage (EoH) Toolkit, to improve management effectiveness at World Heritage properties, particularly with regard to cultural values.
I am co-authoring two books in French on archaeology in New Caledonia and am contracted to Cambridge University Press to co-author a volume on Australian archaeology. I have published over 100 scholarly works and contributed reviews and commentary to learned journals and the quality press. My most influential books include:
Lilley, I. (ed.) 2006 Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands. Oxford: Blackwell.
Anderson, A., I. Lilley and S. O’Connor (eds) 2001 Histories of Old Ages. Essays in honour of Rhys Jones. Canberra: Pandanus Books.
Lilley, I. (ed.) 2000 Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World. Sydney: Oceania Monographs (re-issued 2007 AltaMira/UCL Press USA/UK).
Galipaud, J-C. and I. Lilley (eds) 1999 Le Pacifique de 5000 a 2000 avant le présent. Suppléments à l’histoire d’une colonisation. Paris: Éditions d’IRD.
Address: School of Social Science
University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
Australia
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The conference aimed to provide a forum for the exploration of barriers, borders and boundaries in Australian archaeological methods and practice, frameworks of interpretation and epistemological structures. Sessions were designed to have broad appeal to a range of archaeological stakeholders including academics, consultants, Indigenous peoples, students, cultural heritage managers and policy formulators.
The structure of this volume does not reflect closely the conference session structure. Instead, we have reorganised papers into four broad thematic areas to provide some coherence to the work. The first section, 'Recent Regional Research', presents broad regional studies covering a wide time period and geographical range. The section on 'Rock Art Studies' explores the use of art to define social boundaries, as well as problems in approaches, and challenges for management. The third section, 'Archaeological and Aboriginal Heritage' deals with the way archaeologists undertake research, form partnerships with stakeholders and train future archaeologists. The final section, 'Technical Studies', highlights approaches to the study of archaeological remains and sites, using a range of technical, genetic and molecular methods. In all, they cover a wide range of the challenges, solutions and valuable information provided by the barriers, borders and boundaries in current archaeology."
The Conference was hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the University of Queensland Archaeological Services Unit (UQASU). It was one of the longest AAA conferences ever – enduring over a tiring four days. It was also one of the largest conferences on record with over 200 registered participants. In total, over 85 formal presentations were made at the Conference, including 49 papers of which 27 papers appear in this volume.
These Proceedings depart in several major ways from its predecessors. First, all of the papers in this volume were presented in some form at the Conference; no other contributions are included. Second, the full range of issues covered at the Conference are represented in the volume rather than it being restricted to a single session topic or theme. Third, all papers were refereed (except for session overviews and the final section on 'Repatriation Issues in Australian Archaeology'). Finally, with the exception of Davidson et al. (1995), we believe that this is the first time that presenters in the Poster Session have been invited to contribute to the general AAA Conference Proceedings.
Some authors have chosen to submit essentially what was presented at the Conference while others have substantially rewritten contributions in light of comment and discussion at the Conference and at the suggestion of referees and the editors.
The work of the 44 contributors represented in this volume provides an up-to-date overview of the diverse interests of contemporary Australian archaeologists and Australian archaeology ’95.
Jay's arrival in Australia in June 1976 to begin the archaeology programme in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland marked two important events in the history of archaeology in this country. Firstly it provided a local focus for archaeology north of the Tweed River, thus continuing to expand the discipline beyond the dominant Sydney Canberra axis. Secondly Jay was an important addition to the tiny number of American-trained archaeologists practising in Australia at that time. Indeed, because of Jay's fundamental role in developing the archaeology teaching at UQ, that school became and has remained the most 'American' among Australian archaeology departments in its philosophy and methodology. This, and the four fi eld approach used in UQ, in turn produced several generations of scholars who continue to influence archaeological thinking in this country and beyond. Celebrated as a gifted teacher and a pioneer of Queensland archaeology, Jay leaves a rich legacy of scholarship and achievement across a wide range of archaeological endeavours.
This volume brings together past and present students, colleagues and friends to celebrate Jay's contributions, influences and interests.
The existence of protected areas is a cultural legacy in itself. Gazettal of America’s Yellowstone National Park in 1872 formalised recognition of protected areas, but for thousands of years before this, humans protected natural places of high cultural value. Although not consciously identified for what Western science calls their biodiversity, these ancient places demonstrate that protected areas are not just the hallmark of modern society and complex government schemes.