Claire Smith

About Claire Smith

This well-known archaeologist served two times as President of the World Archaeological Congress and lectured for many years at Adelaide's Flinders University. She studied rock art among Australia's Aboriginal people, conducting fieldwork in her country's Northern Territory, Barunga, and South Australian, Ngadjuri-populated areas.

Claire Smith before fame

She graduated from the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, with a bachelor's degree in archaeology and a doctorate in archaeology.

Achievement of Claire Smith

She co-wrote Digging It Up Down Under and The Archaeologist's Field Handbook and edited the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology.

Claire Smith family life

Gary Jackson, her husband and a fellow archaeologist, was often there as she worked.

Associations of Claire Smith

She and Louis Leakey, a British archaeologist, did fieldwork in Africa and Australia, respectively.

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