Sarah Colley

Sarah Colley FSA is an honorary research fellow in the University of Leicester, school of Archaeology and Ancient History. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2011.[1]

Colley is interested in using modern digital communication technology and applies them to enhance researches in the field of archaeology.[2] Because of that interest, she is currently working with Penelope Allison on the development of digital research resources in the Kinchega Archaeological Research Project.[3]

Education

Colley obtained a bachelor of arts in archaeology at University of Southampton in 1977 and graduated with a PhD from the school of archaeology, University of Southampton in 1984. After completing her PhD Colley went on to become a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University on the topic of Australian Aboriginal archaeology.[3]

Career

She has been a senior lecturer of archaeology at the University of Sydney, and has published articles about teaching archaeology to students in the university level.[4] As a senior lecturer, she was able to develop teaching and researching programs in Archaeological ethics and theory, Cultural heritage management, public archaeology, Australian Aboriginal pre-history and Historical archaeology. Colley has specialized in studying shells, fish bones and mammals to try and better understand early humans' diets, economies and environmental changes.[5] She has worked in sites in England, Scotland and south east Australia. She currently manages the Archaeological Fish Bone Images Archive Tables,[6] Archaeological fish-bone images[7] and NSW Archaeology Online: Grey Literature Archive.[8]

Selected publications

  • Colley, Sarah (2007). University-based archaeology teaching and learning and professionalism in Australia. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 251. ISBN 978-1588340580.
  • Colley, Sarah (2018). "Arable weed seeds as indicators of regional cereal provenance: a case study from Iron Age and Roman central-southern Britain". World Archaeology. 36 (2): 189–202. doi:10.1080/0043824042000260979. S2CID 144410104.
  • Colley, Sarah (2014). "Ethics and Digital Heritage". The Ethics of Cultural Heritage. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 13–32. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1649-8_2. ISBN 978-1-4939-1648-1.

References

  1. ^ Dr Sarah Colley, Society of Antiquaries of London, retrieved 13 January 2022
  2. ^ Colley, Sarah (18 April 2012). "Digital technologies & archaeological ethics". Australian National University open research library. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Sarah Colley". University of Leicester. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  4. ^ Colley, Sarah (2004). "University-based archaeology teaching and learning and professionalism in Australia". World Archaeology. 36 (2): 189–202. doi:10.1080/0043824042000260979. S2CID 144410104.  – via Taylor & Francis (subscription required)
  5. ^ Colley, Sarah (1987), "Fishing for Facts. Can We Reconstruct Fishing Methods from Archaeological Evidence?", Australian Archaeology, 24 (24): 16–26, doi:10.1080/03122417.1987.12093098, JSTOR 40286850
  6. ^ Colley, Sarah (18 June 2010). "Archaeological Fish Bone Images Archive Tables". University of Sydney Library. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Archaeological fish-bone images". Research Data Australia. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  8. ^ "NSW Archaeology Online: Grey Literature Archive". Research Data Australia. Retrieved 8 February 2019.