Joint Academies Committee for the Protection of Prehistoric Places, 1979-1984

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Series 16

Content Summary:

In 1980, the Committee of the Australian Academies of Science, Humanities, Social Sciences and Technological Sciences established the Joint Academies Committee for the Protection of Prehistoric Places, to foster studies of the prehistory of Australia and to encourage the protection and preservation of prehistoric sites. The Committee was made up of eight members, comprising two representatives from each of the four Academies. Mulvaney and Jack Golson represented the Academy of the Humanities.

This series includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, administrative papers, printed material and other papers. This material largely relates to the organisation of two Rock Art Conservation workshops (November 1980 and June 1981), through which the Committee identified priorities and proposals for the surveying, recording, restoration, management and conservation of rock art sites, and, on a wider level, other archaeological sites, contact sites and sites of significance. Particular sites documented in this series include Western Australia's Dampier Archipelago and Burrup Peninsula.

Among the correspondents are J.L. Bannister, W.D. Borrie, J.T. Davies, L.T. Evans, Fay Gale, Jack Golson, Eugene Kamenka, Isabel McBryde, Sir Ian McLennan, R.J. O'Connor, W.D.L. Ride, Charles Rowley, Ralph Slatyer, H.A.W. Southon, Peter Valee and Sir Frederick White.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original instalment of this collection (MS 9615) was donated by Professor Mulvaney under the Cultural Gifts Program in September 1999. Further instalments were received in 2013 and 2017.

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