Person

Megaw, John Vincent Stanley (Vincent) (1934 - )

AM FAHA

Born
17 April 1934
Scotland
Occupation
Archaeologist

Summary

Vincent Megaw worked on "The Dawn of Civilization" project and spent some time working in Australia.

Details

Chronology

1962 - 1972
Career position - Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
1973 - 1982
Career position - Corresponding Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
1982 -
Career position - Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
1985 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
1995 - 2003
Career position - Professor of Visual Arts and Archaeology, Flinders University
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - For services to Australian society and the humanities in prehistory archaeology and the arts
2003 -
Career position - Emeritus Professor, Flinders University
2003
Life event - Retired
2004
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - For service to archaeology and art history as an educator, researcher and writer, particularly in the areas of European Iron Age art, contemporary Indigenous Australian art and music archaeology

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

  • Vincent Megaw - Records, 1940 - 1965, DeB 134-136; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

  • Vincent Megaw - Records, 1960 - 1970, P 33; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Resources

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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"... 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