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Jessie Birkett-Rees is a landscape archaeologist specializing in areas such as landscape archaeology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), digital archaeology, and contested heritage. Her research focuses on the interaction between humans and their environment, exploring themes related to river systems, coastal zones, and highland regions in Australia, Canada, Turkey, and Georgia. Birkett-Rees utilizes GIS and geospatial analyses to reconstruct past landscapes, which allows her to model future conditions and understand how communities adapt to environmental changes. Her work integrates archaeological, ecological, and cultural perspectives to reveal the dynamic relationships between people and their places. Current projects include investigating environmental and cultural changes in the Central Murray River and working on the Buchan Valley Gippsland Lakes GunaiKurnai Cultural Mapping Project. Birkett-Rees has also been involved in significant projects including the Joint Historical Archaeological Survey of the Gallipoli Battlefields and the Metepenagiag Cultural Landscape in maritime Canada. Her educational background includes a PhD in Archaeology and Geomatic Engineering from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Classics Archaeology and a BASc in Earth Sciences from the same institution.
Monash University • Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Teaching and conducting research in Archaeology and Ancient History.
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