Claire Smith

Claire Smith

Claire Smith (born 15 July 1957 in Sydney, Australia) is an archaeologist. She is an Associate Professor with the Department of Archaeology[1] at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, and President of the World Archaeological Congress.

She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with First-Class Honours in Archaeology and University Medal from the University of New England in 1990, and a PhD on "social and material context in an Australian Aboriginal artistic system" from the same university in 1996. After that she held an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Claire Smith specialises in Indigenous archaeology, especially rock art. She works with her anthropologist husband, Gary Jackson. They have conducted long-term fieldwork with Aboriginal people in the Barunga region, Northern Territory, and with the Ngadjuri in South Australia. Smith is politically active within Australia, especially in terms of Indigenous rights.[2]

Claire Smith's books include Indigenous Archaeologies: decolonising theory and practice,[3] co-edited by H. Martin Wobst, published by Routledge, 2005, The Archaeologist's Field Handbook,[4] co-authored by Heather Burke, published by Allen and Unwin, 2004, Archaeology to Delight and Instruct: Active Learning in the University Classroom,[5] published by Left Coast Press,[6] 2007, and Digging it Up Down Under,[7] co-authored by Heather Burke, published by Springer,[8] 2007.


Selected publications

  • 2008 – H. Burke, C. Smith and L. Zimmerman The Archaeologist's Field Handbook. North American Edition. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-7591-0882-X.
  • 2008 – H. Burke, C. Smith, D. Lippert, J. Watkins and L. Zimmerman (eds) Kennewick: Perspectives on the Ancient One. Walnut Grove, CA: Left Coast Press. ISBN 978-1-59874-347-0.
  • 2007 – H. Burke and C. Smith Archaeology to Delight and Instruct. Active Learning in the University Classroom. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. ISBN 978-1-59874-256-5.
  • 2007 – I. Domingo, H. Burke and C. Smith Manual de Campo Para Arqueologos. Barcelona: Ariel Editorial. ISBN 978-84-344-5231-2.
  • 2007 – C. Smith and H. Burke Digging it up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia. New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-35260-0.
  • 2006 – C. Smith and H. Burke Glass Ceilings, Glass Parasols and Australian Academic Archaeology. Australian Archaeology 62:13-25.
  • 2005 – C. Smith Decolonising the Museum: The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Antiquity 79:424-39.
  • 2005 – C. Smith and H.M. Wobst Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonising Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-30965-4.
  • 2004 – C. Smith Country, Kin and Culture. Survival of an Australian Aboriginal Community. Adelaide: Wakefield Press. ISBN 1-86264-575-8.
  • 2004 – H. Burke and C. Smith The Archaeologist's Field Handbook. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1 86508 862 5.
  • 2000 – C. Smith and G. K. Ward Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World. Sydney: Allen and Unwin & Vancouver: University of British Columbia. ISBN 1-86448-926-X.
  • 1997 – A. Rosenfeld and C. Smith. Recent developments in radiocarbon and stylistic methods of dating rock art. Antiquity 72 (272):405-11.
  • 1994 – C. Smith, H. Burke and C. Lovell-Jones Beyond the looking glass: some thoughts on sociopolitics and reflexivity in Australian archaeology. Australian Archaeology 38:13-22.
  • 1992 – C. Smith Colonising with style: reviewing the nexus between rock art, territoriality and the colonisation and occupation of Sahul. Australian Archaeology 34:34-42.

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