Abby Cooper

Abby

Cooper

Full member

0429 360 403

Horsham

3400

VIC

Australia

Cooper Heritage Management Pty Ltd

PhD Arch (Candidate), GradDipArc&HerMgt, GradCertCultHerMgt, MPubHist, BA(Hons), CertIVTAE

Victoria

Full Member of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists; Level 5 Member of the Professional Historians Association

Abby is a qualified archaeologist, historian, and trainer and assessor with over 18 years experience working in the cultural heritage industry in various capacities. She has a wide range of experience working on many diverse projects with Aboriginal communities and their representative organisations in urban, regional and remote areas of Australia. Since 2016, Abby has provided cultural heritage advice and archaeological services to clients in Victoria, including Cultural Heritage Management Plans, Due Diligence Assessments, Cultural Heritage Assessments, Cultural Heritage Permits and Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Land Management Agreements. She has also been involved in several large scale research projects in collaboration with Traditional Owner groups. Abby is a qualified Heritage Advisor under s.189 of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act.

Griffin, D. and A. Cooper 2020 ‘Scarred for life too’: Measuring girth and estimating ages of culturally modified trees using comparative examples from Wotjobaluk Country, Western Victoria. Excavations, Surveys and Heritage Management in Victoria 9:27-34; Griffin, D. and A. Cooper 2019 An analysis of culturally modified trees along Kromelak (Outlet Creek), Ross Lake and northern Gurru (Lake Hindmarsh) on Wotjobaluk Country, Western Victoria, Australia. The Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 43:94-133; Tuchener, D, S. Aird, M. Boulden & A. Cooper 2017 The ‘taphonomy’ of the Australian great bowerbird within the Wenlock Goldfields, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Australian Archaeology 83(1-2):71-74.

Excavation Site Recording Site Survey

Culturally modified tree identification & analysis