Archaeology Program
La Trobe University
Victoria 3086
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9479 2385
Fax: +61 3 9479 1881
Email: archaeology
@latrobe.edu.au
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Archaeology Program
Staff Directory
Dr Richard Cosgrove
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Reader & Honours Coordinator
Room:Martin Building 167
Tel: (61 3) 9479 1424
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881
Email: r.cosgrove@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA ANU, MA James Cook, PhD La Trobe |
- China Research: Chinese Middle and Late Pleistocene cultural variability
- French Research: Comparative late Pleistocene human behaviour
- North Queensland Research: Light Islands in a sea of dark rainforest: Human influence on fire, climate and biodiversity in the Australian tropics.
- Tasmanian Research: Seasonal human use of Tasmanian and Franco-Cantabrian Palaeolithic ice age sites
Direct dating of megafauna bone in Tasmania
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Recent publications include:
- Pike-Tay, Anne, Richard Cosgrove, Jillian Garvey, in press. Systematic seasonal land use by late Pleistocene Tasmanian Aborigines. Journal of Archaeological Science, April 2008.
- Field, J., R. Cosgrove, R. Fullagar & B. Lance in press Survival of starch residues on grinding stones in private collections: a study of morahs from the tropical rainforests of NE Queensland. Archaeological Science Under A Microscope: Papers in Honour of Tom Loy.
- Huayu, L. Zhang Hongyan, Wang Shejing, Richard Cosgrove, Zhao Cunfa, Thomas Stevens and Zhao Jun 2007 A preliminary survey on loess deposit in eastern Qinling Mountains (central China) and its implications for estimating age of the Pleistocene lithic artefacts. Quaternary Sciences, vol. 27, (4): 559-567. (In Chinese with English abstract)
- Cosgrove, R., J. Field and Å. Ferrier 2007 The archaeology of the Australia’s tropical rainforest. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 251 (1): 150-173.
- Cosgrove, R. 2006 The archaeology of global expansion 300,000-8,000 years ago: the archaeology of late Pleistocene Australia and the Pacific. In S.L. Elias (ed) Encyclopaedia of Quaternary Sciences, Elseveir, United Kingdom, pp 118-129.
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- Ms Coral Montero López (PhD) (Principal Supervisor, with Professor Peter Mathews), Thesis topic: Zooarchaeology of the Late-Classic Maya site of Chiapas
- Ms Shaodong Zhai (PhD) (with Professor Li Lui), Thesis topic: The lithic production and the organization of production in the Taosi society, Neolithic Shanxi province, North China
- Mr Jeff Hill (PhD) (Principal Supervisor),
Thesis topic: Prehistoric occupation of Victoria’s Mallee
- Mr Giles Ham (PhD) (Principal Supervisor),
Thesis topic: Aboriginal occupation of southern Flinders Ranges during the Last Glacial Maximum.
- Ms Asa Ferrier (PhD) (Principal Supervisor),
Thesis topic: Contact archaeology in northeast Queensland’s tropical rainforest region.
- 2009 - 2011 ARC Discovery Grant with Asa Ferrier - $443,395 over 3 years for project Light islands in a sea of dark rainforest: Human influence on fire, climate and biodiversity in the Australian Tropics.
- 2008 - AIATSIS Research Grant with student Asa Ferrier
- 2006 - 2008 Middle and Upper Palaeolithic human behaviour in China. Project funded by an ARC Discovery grant DP0665250. $365,00.00.
- 2005 – 2008 Kutikina Faunal Analysis. Project with Dr Jillian Garvey, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Archaeology Program, La Trobe University. Funded by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. $46,000.
- 2004 – 2008 Megafauna Project. Excavation of Titan’s Shelter, Florentine River valley, in collaboration with Dr Jillian Garvey and Dr Judith Field, University of Sydney. Funded by School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University. $16,000
- 2003 Armitstead Archaeological Project. Research and student training project funded by Gunns Pty Ltd, Tasmania, Forest Practices Board, Tasmania and School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University. $10,000
- 2002-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, La Trobe University; Toxic Harvest: The antiquity of rainforest Aboriginal occupation and toxic plant use in long-term subsistence patterns. $280,000. Co-principal investigator with Dr Judith Field (University of Sydney).
Professional Involvements
- Member of the Australasian Quaternary Association
- Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Advisor to Tasmanian forest industry and the Tasmanian Aboriginal Lands Council on cultural heritage matters.
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