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Fiona Hook has over 33 years of experience in cultural heritage management and community consultation focused in Australia, particularly in Western Australia and parts of Asia. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Western Australia and a full member of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists. Fiona has served as the past President of the Australian Archaeological Association and the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists, indicating her active involvement in the professional archaeological community. Her current research interests explore the deep-time connections of Aboriginal people to dynamic coastal and desert landscapes in northwest Australia. Core projects include long-term marine adaptations on Barrow Island and examining Aboriginal populations' usage of marine resources for over 50,000 years. As part of the Desert Peoples Project, she investigates shell middens and stratified cave deposits to understand how people adapted to changing sea levels over millennia. Fiona is engaged in ongoing excavations at Yirra, a site of significant cultural archaeological value, analyzing well-preserved deposits and their implications for land use patterns and environmental interactions in transitional coastal-desert contexts. Her research also extends to desert archaeology, archaeomalacology, and experimental archaeology.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Teaching and mentoring students in archaeology, focusing on Aboriginal marine adaptations and cultural heritage.
Archae-Aus •
Leading a consulting firm specializing in archaeological assessments and heritage management.
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