Person

Wright, Richard Stafford

AM

Occupation
Archaeologist

Summary

Richard Wright is an archaeologist specialising in Australian prehistory with a focus on stone tools and human osteology. He developed a set of developed a set of statistical tools, writing his own programs, for evaluating human remains, the programs ultimately being grouped into the widely-used package MV-ARCH. In the late 1960s Wright's dealings with Tom Austen Brown had significant outcomes for the University of Sydney and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. After retiring as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1990, Wright became involved as Chief Archaeologist to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and consultant to the Fromelles project recovering remains of Australian soldiers from WWI.

Details

Chronology

1961 - 1966
Career position - Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney
1966 - 1975
Career position - Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney
1975 - 1981
Career position - Senior lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney
1982 - 1990
Career position - Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney
1990 -
Career position - Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney
1997 - 2000
Career position - Chief Archaeologist, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
1999 - 2000
Career position - Team Leader, Yagan Grave Search Project, Western Australian Aboriginal Affairs
2006 - 2009
Career position - Forensic Anthropologist, Fromelles Project (Pheasant Wood), Recovering Overseas Australia's Missing Inc
2009 - 2010
Career position - Senior Forensic Archaeologist and Adviser, Fromelles Project (Pheasant Wood), Oxford Archaeology
2011
Award - Senior Forensic Archaeologist and Adviser, Fromelles Project (Pheasant Wood), Oxford Archaeology
2013
Award - Rhys Jones Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Australian Archaeology, Australian Archaeological Association
2013
Award - Senior Forensic Archaeologist and Adviser, Fromelles Project (Pheasant Wood), Oxford Archaeology

Related Corporate Bodies

Helen Cohn

EOAS ID: biogs/P006168b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006168b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260