About Dr Trudy Doelman
Dr Trudy Doelman has a Diploma of Teaching (Auckland College of Education), a BA and MA (honours) in Anthropology from the University of Auckland and PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her PhD focused on the technological and spatial analyses, using a GIS, of mid Holocene quarries in arid zone WNSW and the formation and distribution of the resulting assemblages using a non-site distributional archaeological approach to the landscape. Research into these areas has continued in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. She now has a four year teaching/research ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Sydney working in the Far East of Russia. She maintains a special interest in New Zealand archaeology, hunter/gatherer archaeology of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Her course ARPH 2617, Analysis of Stone Technology, aims to provide students with the essential skills needed to record, analyse and interpret stone artefact assemblages.