TESSA CORKILL

Tessa is an archaeologist whose main interest is in sourcing of Australian Aboriginal stone artefact materials and landscape archaeology. She has a particular interest in silcrete, which, in many areas, was the most common material from which artefacts were made.

After graduating from Sydney University as a mature age student in 1986, Tessa worked as a consultant archaeologist, mainly in the Sydney region. Since completing an MPhil on sources of Aboriginal stone flaking materials in 1999, she has undertaken several research projects, some as an Associate of the Australian Museum. These include the sourcing of more than 300 stone hatchets from the Sydney region that are held in the Museum, and identification of stone raw materials from a number of archaeologcial sites.

At present Tessa is working on a voluntary heritage project in connection with the Tertiary Maroota Sands Formation in the north west Sydney region. This formation is fast being removed by sandmining and the project aims to gather together geological, archaeological, historical and other data which has been collected in previous years. It also aims to instigate new research and perhaps organize conservation of part of the formation.

MAROOTA SANDS HERITAGE HOME PAGE -  http://maroota.sands.googlepages.com

Tessa Corkill - tessa.corkill@ozemail.com.au

 

REFERENCES ON GEOARCHAEOLGY

Corkill T., 1997.  Red, yellow and black: Colour and heat in archaeological stone.  Australian Archaeology 45: 54-55.

* Corkill T., 1999.  Here and There: Links between Stone Sources and Aboriginal Archaeological Sites in Sydney, Australia.  Unpublished MPhil thesis, University of Sydney.

Corkill T., 1999. The use of geological maps in archaeological research. In K.May, T. Denham and D. Campbell (eds) Proceedings of the National Archaeology Students' Conference 1998: 53-55. Canberra: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University.

** Corkill T., 2005. Sourcing stone from the Sydney region: A hatchet job.  Australian Archaeology

  60: 41-50.

 

* Click here for an abstract of  "Here and There"

** Click here for full version of  "Sourcing stone from the Sydney region:  A hatchet job."