Since 2000, Assoc. Prof. Neale Draper has written, co-authored, supervised and/ or edited more than 500 professional cultural heritage survey and research, and expert assessment reports (including Native Title) through ACHM and Neale Draper & Associates. He also has presented papers at leading international and national scientific conferences and Industry forums, and published research results in professional, peer-reviewed journals. A selection from these reports and papers as well as other publications is listed below. Standard cultural heritage assessment consultancy reports are not included. 2026 [in press] with Andrew Maland. Technology to the rescue – digital solutions for cultural landscape heritage mitigation work at Riverlea in Kaurna country, Adelaide, South Australia. ICOMOS Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies: Digital Archaeology (2025), Vienna. CHNT-30: Proceedings. 2025 with Jeffrey Newchurch. The Traditional Kaurna Toolkit. Paper presented at the Australian Archaeology Association annual conference, Fremantle. 2025 with Jeffrey Newchurch, Andrew Maland and the Kaurna Repatriation Team The Three Sacred Rivers at the Heart of Kaurna Country. (presentation in the Session: Rivers for Generations). WAC-10: 10th World Archaeological Congress in Darwin, Australia 22-28 June 2025 2025 The top-down approach is the only way to avoid going bottom-up. Australian Archaeology (91(1), 2025. (Forum on ‘Exploring the need and potential for national Indigenous heritage legislation in Australia’). 2024 with Jeffrey Newchurch and Allan Sumner Working together the right way - Kaurna cultural leadership and shared heritage management processes for major development projects in Adelaide, South Australia. Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Cairns, 'Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc (AACAI) Session - Shared Heritage in the Consulting World. 2023 Good intentions vs. political imperatives: operational issues of the South Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act. Historic Environment 34 special edition: Australian Aboriginal Heritage legislation. 2023 (with John Podgorelec and Andrew Starkey) What To Do When a Missile Lands in Your Heritage Site. Scientific Symposium Presentation, ICOMOS General Assembly, Sydney, Australia. 2023 (with Jane Lennon, Duncan Marshall, Divya Bali Dogra and Jeffrey Newchurch) Evolving Perceptions of Settlement Landscapes as Shared or Exclusive Realms. Scientific Symposium Presentation, ICOMOS General Assembly, Sydney, Australia. 2023 (with Stephanie Johnston and Andrew Maland) Managing a Contested Cultural Landscape on Australia's Dinosaur Coast. Scientific Symposium Presentation, ICOMOS General Assembly, Sydney, Australia. 2023 (with Stephanie Johnston and Andrew Maland) Dinosaur Coast National Heritage Management Plan. National Heritage Management Plan prepared for Dinosaur Coast Management Group, Broome WA and DECCW, Canberra. 2023 (with Andrew Maland and Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation): Wiradjuri Creation Ancestors and Australian Motor Racing: competing intangible cultural heritage values for Wahluu/ Mt. Panorama at Bathurst (NSW). Historic Environment special edition: Intangible Cultural Heritage, 33: 1 & 2. 2021 (with Andrew Maland and Jeffrey Newchurch) Aboriginal culture meets aviation: Kaurna heritage and RAAF Base Edinburgh. Historic Environment 32, 3: 75-84. 2020 (with F.D. Pate and others) A stable, inexpensive and widely available burial environment or keeping place for archaeological or historical human skeletal remains. Australasian Historical Archaeology 38: 68-71. 2020 Glencore Glendell Continued Operations Coal Project, Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment: Anthropology Report on PCWP Cultural Values. Report to Tocomwall Pty Ltd for the Glendell Heritage Impact Assessment (NSW). 2020 Wonnarua Native title Mediation: Review of Court Expert's Report NSD1680/13, NSD1093/12 and NSD/788/13 PCWP Native Title Claims. Report prepared for prepared for Chalk & Behrendt Lawyers & Consultants, and the PCWP Native Title Applicants. 2019 (with Aylza Donald) WAD142/2018 Darlot (Part B), WAD597/2018 Tjalkadjara, & WAD297/2018 Waturta Native Title Claims. Preliminary Anthropology Connection Report on Overlap Areas. Expert Report prepared for the Darlot Native Title Claim application. 2019 Ethnographic notes from a site visit with Wiradjuri Elders to Wahluu (Mt Panorama), Bathurst NSW 5 May 2017. Anthropology Summary Report for Wiradjuri Elders Application under Sections 9 & 10 of the Commonwealth Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act (1984). 2019 Darda Native Title Claim Preliminary Anthropology Connection Report. Expert report prepared for the Darda Native Title Claim application. 2018 Darlot Native Title Claim. Preliminary Anthropology Connection Report. Expert Report prepared for the Darlot Native Title Claim application. 2018 (Nadia Bulter, Neale Draper, Fiona Sutherland) Banjima Culture and the Hope Downs 1 Mine, in Rockshelter Excavations in the East Hamersley Range, Pilbara Region, Western Australia, edited by Dawn Cropper and W. Boone Law (Pp45-51). Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford. 2018 Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People Native Title Claims: Anthropology Report for Federal Court Mediation (NSD1680/13, NSD1093/12 and NSD788/13). Expert Report prepared for the PCWP Native Title Claim Group and the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney. 2018 (Morgan C.F. Disspain, Sean Ulm, Neale Draper, Jeffery Newchurch, Stewart Fallon, Bronwyn M. Gillanders) Long-term archaeological and historical archives for mulloway, Argyrosomus japonicus, populations in eastern South Australia. Fisheries Research 205: 1-10. 2018 Kaurna Native Title (SAD6001-2000) Anthropology Connection Report. Continuity and Connection Issues. Expert Report (Part 2) prepared for the Kaurna Native Title Claim Group and the Federal Court of Australia, Adelaide. 2017 Kaurna Native Title (SAD6001-2000) Anthropology Connection Report. Nature and Geographic Extent of Kaurna Society circa. 1836; Kaurna Apical Ancestors. Expert Report (Part 1) prepared for the Kaurna Native Title Claim Group and the Federal Court of Australia, Adelaide. 2017 (with Andrew Maland) Practical applications of GIS techniques to cultural mapping and cultural heritage management: some Australian Examples. Paper presented at the 2017 Meeting of the ICOMOS International Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), Bagamoyo, Tanzania. 2017 WAD6064/98 Raymond William Ashwin & Others on behalf of the Wutha People. Supplementary Expert Anthropology Report for the Applicant. Expert Report prepared for the Wutha Native Title Claim Group and the Federal Court of Australia, Perth. 2016 Working through the paradoxes: Mining and Aboriginal Archaeology in Australia. Invited Presentation, Session on Mining, Resource, Development and Indigenous Cultural Heritage, World Archaeology Congress 8, Kyoto, Japan. 2016 Best Practice and Best Outcomes: managing Aboriginal heritage and native title issues for major projects in South Australia. Invited Presentation, SA Major Projects Conference, Expotrade Adelaide. 2016 (with Andrew Maland) Anthropological Report on the Billingurru S.10 Application (Commonwealth Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984), Broome WA. Expert Report prepared for Herbert Smith Freehills, Perth. 2016 Some aspects of Narungga Cultural Traditions related to Fishing (Simon Wanganeen prosecution, abalone fishing). Expert Anthropology Report to Andrew B. Theile & Co., Adelaide and Maitland, for the Elizabeth Magistrates Court. 2016 Aboriginal Heritage Management Framework, AIR 7000 Redevelopment - RAAF Edinburgh. (Version 10). AECOM & Neale Draper & Associates, Adelaide. 2015 Australia ICOMOS FABRIC Conference Keynote Presentation: Indigenous cultural heritage management in Australia – sustaining the cultural fabric of living peoples and landscapes. Adelaide, 8 November 2015. 2015 WAD6064/1998 Raymond William Ashwin & Others v the State of Western Australia & Others (Wutha) Final Anthropology Connection Report. Expert Report prepared for the Wutha Native Title Claim Group and the Federal Court of Australia, Perth. (revised 2016). 2015 Archaeological Report: Lake Torrens Overlap Proceedings SAD 90/2009: Kokatha Native Title Claimants. Expert Report prepared for SA Native Title Services Ltd., Adelaide. 2015 Aboriginal Heritage Management and Native Title. Training Seminar produced for and presented to National Native title Tribunal case managers, Australia-wide. 2015 Recording Traditional Kaurna Cultural Values in Adelaide – the Survival of Aboriginal Cultural Traditions within an Australian Capital City. Historic Environment Special Edition: Imagined Cities and Urban Landscapes, 27: 1. 2015 Islands of the Dead? Prehistoric occupation of Kangaroo Island and other southern offshore islands and watercraft use by Aboriginal Australians. Quaternary International 385: 229-242. 2014 WAD6064/1998 Raymond William Ashwin & Others v the State of Western Australia & Others (Wutha) Draft Anthropology Connection Report. Expert Report prepared for the Wutha Native Title Claim Group and the Federal Court of Australia, Perth. 2014 Development and delivery of training package: Inpex information session on the scope of NT legislative requirements in the protection of aboriginal heritage sites of significance and understanding their cultural importance (Ichthys Project, Darwin and Perth). Revision of Inpex Ichthys Project Heritage Management Plan: Aboriginal and WWII (onshore); sacred Sites (Darwin Harbour and surrounding waters). 2014 Kaurna Yerta: The Survival of an Aboriginal Cultural Landscape in a modern Australian City. ICOMOS 18 General Assembly, Florence. Symposium 2 on Heritage and Landscape as Human Values: Landscape as Cultural Habitat (poster and e-publication). 2014 Not Lost or Forgotten: the survival of Indigenous Cultural Heritage in an Australian City. Paper presented to the 20th Conference of the Indo Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA), Siem Reap, Cambodia. 2013 Naley Family Connection to the South Australian Nullarbor Coastal Region. Native Title Anthropology Expert Report, Campbell Law, Adelaide. 2013 Recording Traditional Cultural Values in Australian Cultural Heritage Management. Paper presented to the International ICOMOS Conference 2013: Imagined Pasts, Imagined Futures, Canberra. 2013 Islands of the Dead? Symposium on the Aboriginal Archaeology and Anthropology of Australian Islands, Queensland Museum, Brisbane. 2013 Cultural Heritage Management for Major Projects – expensive hurdle or productive opportunity? Paper presented to the Expotrade Major Projects Industry Conferences in Adelaide (July), Perth (September), and Darwin (November). 2013 A Future for the Past – Two Examples of Archaeological Heritage Management & Community Development in the Pilbara Resources Boom, Western Australia. Paper Presented to the 7th World Archaeological Congress, Dead Sea, Jordan. 2012-2014 Expert Aboriginal Heritage advice and reports for Broome Port Authority/ Kimberley Ports authority. 2012 Managing Archaeological Heritage in the Pilbara Resources Boom, Western Australia. Paper Presented to the 1st Conference of the International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICOMOS), Cusco, Peru. 2011 Anthropological Assessment of Kokatha Cultural Heritage within the Nurrungar Prohibited Area, South Australia. (with Andrew Morley). Report prepared by ACHM for GML, Sydney and Department of Defence, Canberra. 2011 McRae, R.T., M.G. Lockley, P.W. Haines, & N. Draper. Palaeontology Survey of the Broome Sandstone – Browse LNG Precinct Report. Department of State Development, Government of Western Australia, Perth. 2010-2012 Expert Aboriginal Heritage assessments and reports, Browse Kimberley LNG Project Commonwealth EPBC ACT and WA EPA Strategic Assessment Review, For the WA Department of State Development. 2010-2011 Expert Cultural Heritage Advice, Cultural Heritage Surveys and assessments. Woodside Energy Browse LNG Project, Kimberley Region Western Australia (multiple authors & reports). 2010 Anthropologist’s Report. Martu Idja Banyjima Native Title Application WAD6096/98. Expert Report prepared by Australian Cultural Heritage Management Pty Ltd for the Federal Court of Australia, Perth. 2010 Keynote Speaker and Expert Discussant on Cultural Heritage Management, International Symposium on Global Climate Change and Cultural Property Conservation, Tainan City Taiwan. 2010 Will the Future Have a Past? Cultural Heritage Policy and Management for Global Climate Change. In International Symposium on Global Climate Change and Cultural Property Conservation: Conference Proceedings, edited by Ping-Sheng Wu. Taiwan Cultural Heritage Council for Cultural Affairs, Taipei. 2010 & 2013 Graduate Masterclass Seminar: Serving as an Expert Witness: What Every Archaeologist and Heritage Consultant Needs to Know. Department of Archaeology, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide. 2004-2010 Service contract to provide cultural heritage management surveys and assessments, expert anthropology services, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Lands, north-western South Australia (multiple reports & authors). 2001- 2010 Cultural Heritage surveys, Cultural Heritage Management Expert Advice, Native Title Research and Reporting, Kokatha Mula & Kokatha Uwankara Heritage & Native Title Claim Groups, Northern South Australia (multiple reports & authors). 2000- 2010 Cultural Heritage surveys, Cultural Heritage Management Expert Advice, Native Title Research and Reporting, Kaurna Heritage & Native Title Claim Group, Adelaide Region, South Australia (multiple reports & authors). 2006-2010 Cultural Heritage surveys, Cultural Heritage Management Expert Advice, Native Title Research and Reporting, Martidja Banyjima Native Title Claim Group, Pilbara Region, Western Australia (multiple reports & authors). 2008 (with F. Sutherland and C. Wilde) Anthropological Assessment and Review of Mediation Materials for the Yaegl Native Title Determination Application (NG6052/98). Report prepared for the Crown Solicitors Office, NSW. 2007 Kokatha Native Title Claim (SAD 6013/1998) - Expert Anthropology Report (with Fiona Sutherland & Linda Williams). ACHM, Adelaide. 2007 Woodside North West Shelf Joint Venture Leases Cultural Heritage Audit, Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia (multiple authors). 2006 Mid-Holocene hunters of Kangaroo Island: the perspective from Cape du Couedic Rock Shelter. In An Archaeological Life: Essays in Honour of Jay Hall, edited by S. Ulm and I. Lilley, Pp27-46. University of Queensland Press, Brisbane. 2006-2012 ACHM Cultural Heritage Survey Reports and Archaeological & ethnographic Research and Salvage Program Reports, Rio Tinto Iron Ore Hope Downs Project, Pilbara Region, Western Australia (multiple reports & authors). 2001- 2005 ACHM Cultural Heritage Survey and Assessment Reports for the Woodside North West Shelf Venture Project Gas Plant 2nd Trunkline, and Train 4 & 5 Projects, Burrup Peninsula, Western Australia. (Multiple reports & authors). 2004-5 Burrup Heritage Management Strategy. (with Network Economics Consulting Group, Canberra). Strategic Heritage management and planning report for the Western Australian Government. 2002 (with H. Builth, J, Mollan and D. Mott) Anthropological Desktop Review of the Gournditch-Mara Native Title Claim (VG 6004/99). Report prepared by ACHM for Native Title Unit, Department of Justice, Victoria. 2001 Aboriginal Heritage Site Recording Standard. (with David Mott). Internationally referenced Review and recommendation Report for heritage site recording standards for the Department of Indigenous Affairs, Western Australia. 2000 (Primary author & editor) Ngadju Claim Overview Report. Preliminary Native Title Expert Report prepared by ACHM for the Goldfields Land Council, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. 2000 Expert Witness Statements & Testimony by Dr Neale Draper in the Australian Federal Court, Adelaide, in Thomas Lincoln Chapman, Wendy Jennifer Chapman, and Binalong Pty Ltd V. Luminis Pty Ltd, Deane Joanne Fergie, Cheryl Anne Saunders, Robert Edward Tickner, and Commonwealth of Australia (Action SG33 of 1997), for the first and second defendants, per Thomson Playford, Adelaide 1999 The History of Aboriginal Land Use on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. In A Biological Survey of Kangaroo Island, edited by A. C. Robinson. Adelaide, Department of Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs 1997 Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Land Fund, regarding the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act. Expert Witness written Submission & oral Testimony, by invitation. Commonwealth Hansard 1997 Cultural heritage management and tourism workshops & lectures, Taundi (Pt. Adelaide Aboriginal Community College), University of S.A. (Aboriginal Studies), & Flinders University (Cultural Tourism) 1996 Answers to Questions to Dr. Neale Draper from the Commonwealth Hindmarsh Island (Mathews) Report. Adelaide, Camatta Lempens Pty Ltd (on behalf of the Ngarrindjeri Traditional Owners of Kumarangk) 1996 Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island, South Australia): Aboriginal Heritage Assessment. Confidential report prepared for the S.A. Department of State Aboriginal Affairs and the Ngarrindjeri Traditional Owners of the Lower Murray Region 1995 Expert witness Statement and Testimony, S.A. Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission. Ward & Partners, Barristers & Solicitors, Adelaide 1995 Bribie Island Haul Road, Environmental Management Plan: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Consultation Anthropology Report. Report to Maunsell Pty. Ltd., Toowong, QLD 1994 Aboriginal Heritage sites directly impacted by the Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) bridge project. A report to the South Australian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. Adelaide, Department of State Aboriginal Affairs 1993 (with D. Draper & T. Saunders) Aboriginal Cultural Tourism. A Sense of Place, Melbourne 1993 (with K. McConnochie and T. Saunders) Aboriginal Heritage Survey of the Chambers Gorge Region: Preliminary Results. Adelaide, National Parks and Wildlife Service, and Kaurna Journal 1 (School of Aboriginal Studies, University of SA, Underdale) 1991 Cape du Couedic Rockshelter and the Aboriginal Archaeology of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1989 A Guide to the South Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act (1988). Aboriginal Heritage Branch, Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide 1989 Review of "Australian Aboriginal Paintings" (reprinted second edition), by E.J. Brandl (Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies). Australian Art Education 1988 Stone Tools and Cultural Landscapes: Investigating the Archaeology of Kangaroo Island. South Australian Geographic Journal 88: 15-36 1988 (with R.B. Coles) Aboriginal History and Recently-Discovered Art. in the Mount Lofty Ranges. Torrens Valley Historical Journal 33: 2-42 1987 Context for the Kartan: a preliminary report on excavations at Cape du Couedic Rockshelter, Kangaroo Island. Archaeology in Oceania 22 (1): 1-8 1985 Mount Barker Summit: assessment of Aboriginal Heritage Significance. Consultancy report prepared for the S.A. Department of Housing and Construction and the Aboriginal Heritage Branch of the S.A. Department of Environment and Planning 1985 Back to the drawing board: a simplified approach to lithic assemblage variability in the Early Palaeolithic. World Archaeology 17 (1): 3-19 1984 Review of "Adaptive Responses of Native Amazonians", edited by R.B. Hames and W.T. Vickers (Academic Press). Journal of Anthropological Research 1982 (with J.B. Bertram) The Bones from Bis Sa'ani: a sociotechnic archaeofaunal analysis. In Bis Sa'ani: a Late Bonito Phase Community on Escavada Wash, Northwest New Mexico (Volume Three), edited by C.D. Breternitz, D.E. Doyel, and M.P. Marshall. Windowrock, Arizona, Navajo Nation Papers in Anthropology 14: 1015-1065 1982 (with M.R. Binford, W.H. Doleman, and K.B. Kelly) Anasazi and Navajo Archaeofauna. In Land Use in the McKinley Mine area near Gallup, New Mexico (Volume One), edited by C.G. Allen and B.A. Nelson. Office of Contract Archaeology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, pages 448-507 1978 A Model of Aboriginal Subsistence and Settlement in the Moreton Bay Region of Southeast Queensland. Unpublished B.A. (Honours) thesis, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland