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.
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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
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Created: 18 December 2018