Person

McCarthy, Frederick David (1905 - 1997)

Born
13 August 1905
Died
18 November 1997

Summary

Frederick McCarthy wrote articles about aborigines between 1932 and 1979. He was President of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1957.

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Chronology

1964
Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal

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Books

  • McCarthy, F. D., New South Wales Aboriginal place names and euphonious words, with their meanings (Sydney: Government Printer, 1963), 32 pp. Details
  • McCarthy, Frederick D., Australian Aboriginal rock art (Sydney: Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1958), 68 pp. Details
  • Specht, Jim, F.D. McCarthy, commemorative papers (archaeology, anthropology, rock art) (Sydney South: Australian Museum, 1993), 171 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Attenbrow, V.; and Kahn, K., 'F. D. McCarthy his work and legacy at the Australian Museum' in Archaeology in the north: proceedings of the 1993 Australian Archaeological Association Conference, Sullivan, M., Brockwell, S. and Webb, A., eds (Darwin: North Australian Research Unit, Australian National University, 1994), pp. 5-16. Details
  • Attenbrow, Val, 'Ethnographic and Archaeological Collections by FD McCarthy in the Australian Museum' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 472-507. Details
  • Clarke, Anne, and Frederick, Ursula, 'Making a sea change: rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of Frederick McCarthy's research on Groote Eylandt' in Exploring the legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, Thomas, Martin and Neale, Margot, eds (Canberra: ANU Press, 2011), pp. 135-55. https://doi.org/10.22459/ELALE.06.2011.07. Details
  • Clarke, Anne; Kay, Sally K.; Frederick, Ursula K.; and Johnston, Iain G., 'Style and substance: McCarthy versus Mountford and the emergence of an archaeology of rock art 1948 - 1960' in Histories of Australian rock art research, Taçon, Paul C.; May, Sally K.; Frederick, Ursula K.; and McDonald, Jo, eds (Canberra: ANU Press, 2022), pp. 11-25. Details
  • McCarthy, F. D., 'Davidson, Daniel Sutherland (1900-1952)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 224-225. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080245b.htm. Details

Edited Books

  • Berndt, Ronald M. ed., Australian Aboriginal art (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1964), 117 pp. Details
  • Howes, Hilary; Jones, Tristen; and Spriggs, Matthew eds, Uncovering Pacific pasts: histories of archaeology in Oceania (Canberra: ANU Press, 2022), 577 pp. http://doi.org/10.22459/UPP.2021. Details

Journal Articles

  • Khan, K., 'Frederick David McCarthy: an appreciation.', Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, 17 (1993), 1-5, https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.17.1993.54. Details
  • McArthur, M.; Mccarthy, F.D.; and Sprecht, R.L., 'Nutrition Studies (1948) of Nomadic Aborigines in Arnhem Land, Northern Australia', Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 9 (3) (2000), 215-223. Details
  • McBryde, Isabel, 'Frederick David McCarthy, 13 August 1905-18 November 1997: Obituary', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1 (1998), 51-55. Details
  • McCarthy, F., 'Inhabiting the Great South Land', Australian Natural History, 19 (2) (1977), 54-57. Details
  • McCarthy, F. D., 'Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies', Australian Natural History, 15 (6) (1966), 194-196. Details
  • McCarthy, F. D.; Bramell, E.; and Noone, H. V. V., 'The stone implements of Australia', Memoirs of the Australian Museum, 9 (1946), 1-94. Details
  • McCarthy, Frederick David, 'A coat of paint', Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1984 (2) (1984), 72-81. Details
  • Mulvaney, D. J., 'Two remarkably parallel careers', Australian Archaeology, 10 (1980), 96-101. Details

Resources

See also

  • Howes, Hilary, 'Aspects of the historiography of Australian archaeology', Historical Records of Australian Science, 32 (2) (2021), 125-40. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR20017. Details
  • Spriggs, Matthew, 'Everything you've been told about the history of Australian archaeology is wrong', Bulletin of the history of archaeology, 30 (1:3) (2020), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-626. Details
  • Thomas, Martin and Neale, Margo eds, Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2011), 471 pp. Details

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