Andrew Cooper

PERSON Andrew Cooper
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Birth Place:	Mars
Occupation:	Archaeologist
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Education:	Australian National University, University of Western Australia
Doctoral Advisor:	Prof. Thomas Whitley, Dr. Joe Dortch
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Andrew Cooper is an archaeologist with ten years of professional experience. He has been included on the list of Victorian Heritage Advisers since 2007. In that time, he has worked on a wide range of projects in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. He has extensive experience in engaging with and working cooperatively with Aboriginal communities and has a good understanding of the cultural, social and economic issues which affect Aboriginal communities. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in archaeology from the Australian National University in Canberra (2006). He is currently completing a PhD thesis on Late Holocene Mobility in the Pilbara at the University of Western Australia. Andrew has been a member of the Australian Archaeological Association since 2003.

Andrew's PhD research is concerned with mobility in pre­-contact North Western Australia. Archaeological theories of landscape use in the Pilbara have changed little in the past thirty years, concentrating for the most part on environmental variables to explain mobility and habitation. He has a particular interest in theories of Human Behavioural Ecology. Andrew's focus has been on collecting information on seasonality, cultural and economic activities in pre-contact Yindjibarndi society. This information will then be used to develop a model of human behaviour and interaction with the environment. Aspects of this model will be then be simulated and illustrated through the use of Geographical Information Systems. The final outcome of this research is the production of an “Ethnography of Mobility”, which incorporates evidence from a wide variety of sources to explain and understand the motivations for mobility and interaction with the landscape.