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Abby Cooper
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Profile Display Name
Abby Cooper
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First Name
Abby
Last Name
Cooper
Contact Details
Mobile
0429 360 403
Suburb
Horsham
Post Code
3400
State
VIC
Country/Region
Australia
Professional Details
Company
Cooper Heritage Management Pty Ltd
Qualification
PhD Arch (Candidate), GradDipArc&HerMgt, GradCertCultHerMgt, MPubHist, BA(Hons), CertIVTAE
Availability
Victoria
Professional Associations
Full Member of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists; Level 5 Member of the Professional Historians Association
Consulting Experience
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.
Selected Publications
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.
Special Fields
Culturally modified tree identification & analysis
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Website (URL)
http://www.cooperhm.com.au
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