Val Attenbrow

BA (Hons)PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Phone: (+612) 9320 6195
Fax: (+612) 9320 6040
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Dr. Val Attenbrow at Balmoral Beach during the removal of the latex peels which recorded the stratigraphy in the sides of the excavated area. (Photo by Robin Torrence 1992)

She currently has two major research programs: The Port Jackson Archaeological Project and the Archaeology of the Upper Mangrove Creek Catchment. In investigating the prehistory of the Aboriginal people who inhabited the shores of Sydney Harbour (Port Jackson) at the time of British settlement, several Aboriginal sites have been excavated in different parts of the Port Jackson catchment.

Dr. Attenbrow is currently analysing the excavated materials to find out more about the foods people ate and the materials used to make tools and weapons. Research in the Upper Mangrove Creek catchment (Gosford, New South Wales) focuses on spatial and chronological changes in the number and distribution of Aboriginal sites and stone artefacts, and the implications of using such patterns to indicate changes in population size or other social behaviours.

Val Attenbrow

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