Talk:Roger Cribb

Work in Progress
This article is a work in progress, and, for that purpose, an initial annotated chronology of Dr Roger Cribbs publications, report and other activities is proposed to be compiled within this talk page .. upon the completion of which a themed narrative might be written into the article page itself. Bruceanthro 07:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Beginning of an Annotated Chronology
19480106 Roger Cribb is born in Brisbane, Queensland (see Roger Cribb web page)

19680000(?)

Activity: Roger Cribb, living in Cairns, Queensland (his home), wins a scholarship with University of Queensland to complete an Arts Degree (see Eulogy01)

19720000(?)

Thesis: Roger Cribb completes an Honours Degree in Anthropology and Sociology at University of Queensland, and his honors thesis is on Chinese bureaucracy.

19740000 Thesis: Roger Cribb completes a Master of Arts Postgraduate Degree in Anthropology and Sociology, and his Masters thesis is entitled 'Patterns of Racial Ideology: An Analysis in Terms of the Conflict Theory of Society.'(see Google Scholar)


 * It has been reported that Cherbourg and Yarrabah feature in Roger Cribb's masters anaylsis (see eulogy)Bruceanthro 02:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

19740500

Activity: Roger Cribb travels to Hong Kong to learn and speak Chinese. Here he meets his future wife, Gulcin, an air hostess with the Turkish airlines and daughter of a colonial in the Turkish army (see Eulogy 01)..

19740700

Activity: From Hong Kong Roger Cribb travels into Russia, and via Russia into Turkey, arriving in Turkey from the east (Kurdish/nomadic lands??) .. where he meets up with Gulcing, and, on fleeing the Cyprus War, he and Gulgin become engaged, to get married later, in Britain.(see Eulogy 01)

19741200

Activity: Roger returns to Brisbane, Australia, where he works as a tutor within the University of Queesnland's Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

19800400 Article: ''A Comment on Eugene L. Sterud's Changing Aims in Americanist Archaeology: A Citation Analysis of American Antiquity. 1946-1975.'' American Antiquity, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Apr., 1980), pp. 352-354


 * Commentary on Serud 1978 'citation analysis' of trends in American archaeology, noting that archaeologists tend to split into 'schools', the competition and tension between which generates much of the impetitus and growth between the schools, and this, on its own generates its own citation analysis. Bruceanthro 10:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

19820000 Article: The Archaeological Dimensions of Near Eastern Nomadic Pastoralism: Towards a Spatial Model of …(see Google Scholar)


 * Written by Roger Cribb will associated with the University of South Hampton (being the University where Colin Renfrew was Professor, and Roger's 'patron'.Bruceanthro 10:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

19830000 Activity: Roger Cribb accompanies Jim Allen into the 'Tasmanian Wilderness', as part of the Franklin Dam debate - focusing on the Aboriginal heritage impact dimensions of the dam proposal. See Allen, Jim 1983 Aborigines and archaeologists in Tasmania, 1983. Australian Archaeology, no.16, June 1983: 7-10

Report: Cribbie : past community structure and the impact of resettlement on the inhabitants of Cribb Island, Brisbane. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Queensland, St Lucisa


 * coauthored with John S. Western, the was a study for the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Communications' 144.134.74.72 13:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

19840000 Article: Greener Pastures: Mobility, Migration and the Pastoral Mode of Subsistence. Production Pastorale et Société Paris  Number 14. Pages 11-46


 * Middle East ; Nomadism ; Nomadism ; Pastoralism ; Pastoralism ; Animal breeding ; Mode of production ; Subsistence ; Political organization ; Social organization ; Economy ; Forces of production ; Relations of production ; Ecology ; Adaptation to the environment ; Theory ; Pattern ; Morphological source materials in ethnology. 144.134.74.72 13:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Article: ''Computer simulation of herding systems as an interpretative and heuristic device in the study of kill-off'' … Animal and Archaeology

19850000 Article: The analysis of ancient herding systems: An application of computer simulation  .. '''Beyond Domestication in Prehistoric Europe. Investigations'''...

19860000 Article: A graphics system for site-based anthropological data. Australian Aboriginal studies : Number 2. Pages 24-30.


 * The paper describes a database for site-based information developed by the South

Australian Museum. To some extent it is a response to the large, and generally unrecorded, amount of information generated from fieldwork and consultancies in recent years. As part of the larger program, this project is to devise techniques for the storage, retrieval, manipulation and interpretation of data. It includes the generation of maps. Examples of applications in the Aurukun region are given. 144.134.74.72 13:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Article: A preliminary report on archaeological findings in Aurukun Shire, western Cape York .. Queensland Archaeological Research

Article: When the Tide Came in : Pleistocene-Holocene Sea-Levels, Archaeological Catchments and Population Change in Northern Australia. The Pleistocene Perspective. Volume 2.


 * Geology and climatology ; Hydrography ; Marine transgression ; Beach ; Ethnology ; Ecology ; Settlement strategies ; Study of people ; Demography ; Age of rocks ; Holocene ; Oceania ; Australia ; Oceanian cultures ; Prehistory of Oceania; 144.134.74.72 13:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

19861000 Article: Sites, people and archaeological information traps: a further transgressive episode from Cape York  Archaeology in Oceania. Volume 21 Number 3. Pages 171-176


 * The author comments on a paper published in 1985 by J M Beaton. The evidence of

human occupation as represented by archaeological sites is discussed, particularly in relation to Princess Charlotte Bay. A reply by J M Beaton is included. 144.134.74.72 13:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

19870000 Article: A preliminary report on archaeological findings in Aurukun Shire, western Cape York.  Queensland archaeological research. Number 3. Psages 133-158
 * The author presents some preliminary archaeological findings from Aurukun in the hope

of stimulating further research within a regional and interdisciplinary framework in Cape York Peninsula.(Aust. Heritage Biblio). 144.134.74.72 13:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Article: Some Spatial Analysis Application Programs.. Archaeological Computing Newsletter. Number 13..

Report: The Arukun database project. (see Aust Heritage databaw)
 * The project involves the mapping of traditional Aboriginal sites and the collection of other

cultural information on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. This material is now being gathered together as a computerised database. This paper discusses the data entry, retrieval and map graphics. 144.134.74.72 13:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Activity: 1987 Aurukun shell mound trip 19880000 Article: Landscape as cultural artefact: shell mounds and plants in Aurukun, Cape York Peninsula. Australian Aboriginal Studies Press No. 2 Pg 60-74
 * This was written with Rex Walmbeng, Raymond Wolmby and Charles Taisman as 'specialist' co-authors, and it seems it was expected to raise questions and stimulate further reasearch. Bruceanthro 12:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Report: Report to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies on the results of the 1987 Aurukun shell mound trip

1988050000 "Activity:" second Aurukun shell mound research trip, May 1988

19890000 Report: A report to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies on the second Aurukun shell mound research trip, May 1988

Article: Spatial analysis on a dugong consumption site at Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland. Archaeology in Oceania, v.24, no.1, Apr 1989: 1-12


 * This is an article co-authored with Monica Minnegal Bruceanthro 02:57, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Subject index - Archaeology, Statistics, Computer programming, Marine life, Site distribution, Multivariate analysis, SPSS (Computer program), CLUSTAN (Computer program)SITEPAK (Computer program) Bruceanthro 02:57, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Article: Reply to Horton. -Reply to Horton, David. Domiculture or complex hunter/ gathering? A comment on Aurukun shell mound vegetation- Australian Aboriginal Studies (Canberra), no.1, 1989: 48-49

19910000 Book: Roger's book Nomads in Archaeology gets published by Cambridge University Press.
 * Publishers(?) Annotation - Nomads in Archaeology addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. It therefore deals not only with the prehistory and archaeology of nomads but also with current issues in theory and methodology, particularly the concept of ‘site structure’. This is the first volume to be devoted exclusively to nomad archaeology. It includes sections on the history and origins of pastoral nomad societies, the economics of pastoralism, social organisation of pastoral communities and the ‘visibility threshold’ of nomad material culture. Examples and case studies are drawn from field work and published sources primarily in Turkey and Iran.Bruceanthro 02:35, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Article:  ''Mobile villagers: the structure and organisation of nomadic pastoral campsites in the Near East''. Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Mobile Campsites: Hunter- …,

Report: Traditional Ownership and Archaeological Assessment of the Baileys Creek Resort Development, Alexandra Bay. Unpublished Report to Concrete Constructions Group Pty Ltd, Sydney.

Report: Archaeological Survey of the Spalenka Area, Cape Flattery Mines. Unpublished Report to Hopevale Community Steering Committee.

19910319 Activity:Dr Roger Cribb (Tharpuntoo Legal Services, Cairns) gives a seminar at AIATSIS in Canberra entitled Exploring Genealogical Systems: The Software Solution 

19910400 Article: Getting into a flap about shell mounds in northern Australia: a reply to Stone. Archaeology in Oceania :  26(1): 23-25:


 * Australian Heritage Bibliography annotation - Tim Stone's proposition that scrub hen mounds may easily be mistaken for archaeological features is accepted by the author, particularly when shell and/or cultural materials are mixed in. Many 'shell and earth' mounds in northern Australia may the results of reworking of Aboriginal middens by scrub hens, he argues, but oven mounds and true shell mounds must be excluded. He is critical of Stone's discussion of compacted shell mounds such as those at Kwamern near Weipa, arguing that Stone has not demonstrated the presence of underlying midden deposits from which the mound was constructed. Bruceanthro 02:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

19910605: Discussion Paper: Aboriginal Heritage in Queensland: Some Suggestions on the Collection, Control and Ownership of Data and Information: A Preliminary Discussion Paper, prepared for the Tharpuntoo Legal Service Aboriginal Corporation. Bruceanthro 02:44, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

19920000 Article: Nurrabullgin: A Mountain Once Seen, Never Forgotten. Rock Art Research.
 * This was a presentation shared between John Grainer, Bruno David, Roger Cribb, Bruce White, and Hilary Kuhn, at the time of the Rock Art conference in Cairns, at which time Kuku Djungan were experimenting with rock art and cultural tourism. Bruceanthro 02:35, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

19920200: Report: Preliminary Report on the Excavation of an Aboriginal Midden Site at Bailey's Creek Mouth.  Unpublished Report for Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd.  Bruceanthro 02:55, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

19930000 Article: Modelling relationships : a computerised approach to Aboriginal genealogy, family history and kinship studies. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1993; no. 1, p. 10-21:


 * Outline of a computerised genealogical program; companion of Aboriginal and European kinship; various approaches to genealogical computing; program features; application to kinship studies.Bruceanthro 10:54, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Activity:: Roger Cribb first concieves of, and establishes a self-declared, self-branded 'community of scholars', which he entitles the 'Ratbag University'. (See Eulogy02)
 * Roger administers his community of scholars or university for more than 10 years, constituting a self-selected community of peers with whom he had professional dealing and ongoiung theoretical and scholarly debate .. self-issuing positions, degrees and other awards to express his own appreciation for their often more 'applied' achievements. Bruceanthro 07:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

19940100 Report: Report on Traditional Ownership and Aboriginal heritage: Wangetti Crocodile Farm Project. Unpublished Report to the Department of Lands.

19940300 Article: Geoff Bailey, John Chappell, and Roger co-contribute to a paper entitled 'The Origin of Andara shell mounds at Weipa, North Queensland, Australia.' Archaeology of Oceania Volume 29. Pages 69-80.

19940600 Report: together with Loyd Hollingsworth, Roger produces a report to the Wet Tropics Management Authority entitled "Report to the Wet Tropics Authority for the Wangetti Management Plan: Aboriginal Heritage. Bruceanthro 02:44, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

19950000 Report: Towards a Strategy for the Management of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in the Wet Tropics, in FOURMILE, H; SCHNIERER, S; & SMITH, A (Eds)  An Identification of Problems and Potential for Future Rainforest Aboriginal Cultural Survival and Self-Determination in the Wet Tropics . Report to the Wet Tropics Management Authority, James Cook University's Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participation, Research and Development

19950100 Report: Report on an Archaeological Clearance for a Mariculture (Prawn Farm) Development, Thomatis Creek, Cairns. Prepared for the consulting firm 'Environmental Science and Services (NQ).

19950500 Report: Report on a Preliminary Archaeologucal Survey: Royal Palms Golf Course and Residential Development, Smithfield. For Daiky Development Pty. Ltd & Environmental Sciences and Services.

19950700  Report: Report on an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Clearance for Two Marble Mine Sites (ML20221 & ML20222), prepared for Proponent Vincenzo Bellino. Bruceanthro 02:44, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

19951000: Report: together with historian Kate Hunter, Roger prepared "Cultural Heritage Issues: Proposed Ella Bay Tourism Project, Innisfail, NQ:  Stage 1: Literature Search and Consulation", a Report to Environment Science and Services NQ for Ella Bay Resort Pty Ltd, with assistance of Chowai Housing Cooperative, Innisfail. Bruceanthro 02:44, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

19960000

Report: An Assessment of the Definition of National Estate Boundaries for Groups of Shell Mounds on the Weipa and Andoom Peninsulas. Report for Camalco Aluminium Inc, the Australian Heritage Commission, and the Cape York Land Council.

Report: Roger Cribb submits report to the Cape York Land Council entitled Report on Cultural Heritage Aspects of the Comalco Agreement.

Article: Shell Mounds, Domiculture and Ecosystem Manipulation on Western Cape York Peninsula in VETH, P & HISCOCK, P (eds) Archaeology of Northern Australia, a regional perspective. Tempus: archaeology and material culture studies in anthropology. Volume 4. University of Queensland. St Lucia.Pages 150-174.


 * Australian Heritage database annotation - Hunter gatherers have long been regarded as the baseline in ecosystem modification. Citing a case study from Cape York Peninsula, the paper shows that hunter gatherer societies can exert considerable influence on their habitat, in some cases comparable with primitive cultivators. The Aurukun shell mounds represent a form of ecosystem manipulation involving both shells and plants as well as the creation of new topographic features. Once in existence the shell mounds provided an attractive habitat for vine scrub plants which in turn attracted human occupation. Through selective protection and

destruction, and possibly introduction, of plants, as well as through the use of fire, people may well have influenced the structure of this community. Bruceanthro 02:16, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

19960205 Activity: Roger prepares a submission to the Commonwealth Government's review of their Aboriginal heritage legislation, entitled "A Submission on Queensland Heritage Protection Legislation", giving brief overview, from his experience, of why it is that existing heritage practices fail. Bruceanthro 02:44, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

20000000 Report: An Assessment of Comalco's Cultural Heritage Proposals. Confidential Report to Cape York Land Council.

Activity

20000700 "Article" Stuck between the rock and a hard place. Land Rights Queensland.
 * This is a cartoon strip plus accompanying satire regarding Aboriginal reconciliation llampooning Prime Minister John Howard's refusal, or is it fear(?) of saying 'sorry'.

Activity: Roger started work on a draft manuscript he proposed to edit with Geoff Bailey, to include reports of the Aboriginal origin stories and values of shell mounds along the west coast of Cape York Pennisula, proposed to be entitled "The Shell Eaters: Shell Hills of Cape York Peninsula.
 * In the introduction to 'The Shell Eaters' Roger identifies himself as an appliced archaeologist working in a region, within a field in which the need for such applied archaeology is high, but the skill's base to fullfil this need is small .. and he opposes this to the realm of what he entitles 'pure research', which he describes as more theoretical and comparticative, complimentary and necessary to sustain effective 'applied' archaeology. Bruceanthro 23:06, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

20001026: "Report" Confidentual Report to Cape York Land Council regarding the Comalco Agreement, Cape York Land Council Consultancies 1 & 3

20060921 Activity: Dr Roger Cribb is an adjunct scholar at the Cairns Campus of James Cook University, School of Anthropology and Archaeoogy, and he gives a seminar entitled "Getting Around: Mobility, Lifestyle and Culture among Indigenous People."

20070826 Roger Cribb dies in Cairns, Queensland (see Roger Cribb web page)

Proposed thematic structure
From the material being compiled, chronclogically (above), it would seem tDr Roger Cribb's professional career might be generally portrayed and arranged as:

i. an initial period as an active scholar within the academic world, starting with his scholarship with the University of Queensland in the 1970's, then entering the University of South Hampton under archaeologist Colin Renfrew, generally obtaining academic funding and support, and successfully publishing in the academic arena, with his participation in this 'world' peaking during the mid 1980's

ii. a later period as an applied archaeologist increasingly engaged in an Aboriginal world largely removed from academia, academic insitutions, and academic publications, instead developing far more ethnographic relationships with the Aboriginal peoples and Aboriginal institutions and Aboriginal networks of North Australia, particularly North Queensland, lending his skills, effort and experience to those peoples and their causes.

By so dividing Rogers professional career in this manner, and documenting/presenting his contributions as a professional archaeologist and ethnographer of 'nomadic' peoples, it seems possible to:

i. describe the intial 'academic' period as one of daring feildwork and pioneering practical, applied 'ethnographic' methods, data collection, and spatial analysis of nomadic peoples lifestyles - including significant early work in the design, development and use of purpose-specific softwares ... some of the impacts of which, can be traced through the ongoing citiation of this work into the present

ii. describe the later 'applied' period as one of increasingly ethnographic feildwork and identification with the subject peoples with whom he was working, and an increasing disassociation with the more academic world .. working instead with Aboriginal institutions and conducting a large number of consultancies .. with very practical and real ramification in the 'unpublished' world .. some of the impacts of which can be traced through the nature and extent of formal record he had made of Aboriginal heritage, to the current and future benefit of the actual people whose heritage it is, in addition to the more academic community of scholars who with an interest in nomadic and/or hunter-gather peoples..

Bruceanthro 06:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Archaeological and Anthropological Contribution
(a) Shall here list and annotate books reviews, plus citiations arising from Roger Cribbes 'academic' contribution, particularly in relation to the 'archaeology of nomads'

(b)  Shall also list here estimate of extent and range of his recording of Aboriginal archaeological and anthropological heritage etc arising out of Roger Cribbs 'applied' work, particularly along the west coast of Cape York Penninsula, and in the regions around Cairns.

Bruceanthro 07:43, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


 * It occurred to me that the single, overarching and most enduring contribution Dr Roger Cribb made as an ethnoarchaeologist (see also Lewis Binford) was to record the cultural landscapes of some of the more mobile and/or nomadic peoples of the world (living in some of the most sparsely occupied parts of the world), and to increase the visibility of these mobile people's cultural landscapes amongst all those archaeologists, anthropologists, governments, and corporations with whom he had dealings: constantly searching for, and developing methods to reveal and depict the spatial patterning of the socio-cultural systems of first the nomads of Turkey and Iran; then the Aboriginal peoples of Cape York Penninsula's west coast; and, finally, the Aboriginal people's of north-east Queensland (around Cairns). Bruceanthro 21:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

(a) academic/theoretical contributions
Software Design

Shell Mounds:

(b) applied/political contributions
Kinship:

20021005: in association particularly with dramatic increase in geneaological research, Patrick MCConvell and Grace Koch of the Australian Institute of Aboriiginal Studies organise a genealogies workshop in response to experienced inadequacies with the standard range of software availialbe. (see MCCONVELL, P & KOCH, G (2002) Geneaologies Workshop helds at AITSIS 5-6 October 2002. Report to AITSTS.)

Representatives came from Aboriginal communities, land councils, Native Title representative organisations, universities, and Regional Authorities..... Sarah Yu introduced her work with Link-Up and cited the paper in Australian Aboriginal Studies by Roger Cribb in 1993. This had laid out what is needed in the development of genealogy software for Indigenous use; while participants agreed with much of what had been recommended 9 years ago, they agreed that little had been achieved.

Land Rights:

First Draft 'Narrative'
Following in 'in progress' first draft narrative for the material and themes above .. to be cut and paste into article when it starts to take form. Bruceanthro 01:44, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Overview
Dr Cribb's life's work was that of a practical, applied social scientist who firmly believed a structural functionalist anthropology, grounded and parsimoniously applied, could reliably reach beyond the academy's accumulated knowledge of the world, into the archaeological pasts of some of the oldest cultures of some of our world's most sparsely populated regions: ie the nomadic pastoralists of Anatolia (Turkey) and the gatherer-hunters of Cape York, (Australia).

His applied research methods required intensive 'ethnographic' fieldwork living with the cultural descendants of those peoples into whose heritage he wished to 'dig'; mixed together with purpose designed computer storage of data; plus, where practical, small, purpose designed, economic and efficient computer programs to analyze stored data and distill, reveal, confirm, plus extrapolate back in time and outwards in space, unique, underlying socio-environmental organising principles and patterns.

It is perhaps an unfortunate aspect of his researh career that, mid-career (towards the end of the 1980's), for mental and physical health reasons, he found himself without academic patronage and funding, increasinly disengaged with the academy, increasingly overtaken by rapid developments in computer technologies, and having to pursue his work from the fringes of more commercially driven (less 'pure') corporate research striving as an irregular heritage consultant to work closely with those people's with whom he had formed some of his closest professional and personal ties.

There can be no doubt any version of the colonial myth of 'terra nullius' offended Dr Cribb's deeper sense of a prior, unrevealed human heritage still written into the landscapes of otherwise sparsely populated regions of the world. Perhaps, then, it can be said that Dr Cribb's most enduring professional contribution might have been in the work he did to counter any colonial sense of 'terra nullius' by focusing the academy's and state's attention, laying down foundations, and starting the work of revealing the real nature and extent of some vast and dense archaeological landscapes still persisting in Anatolia (Turkey), and Cape York (Australia). Bruceanthro 02:49, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Revealing the Cultural Landscapes of Nomadic Peoples'

 * searching for organising principles and patterns
 * searching for stable, persistent principles and patterns in social organisation
 * searching for stable, persistent principles and patterns in landscapes
 * computer programming, computer analysis and computer modelling, with parsomony
 * predicting backwards into impoverished aracheological past from richer ethno-graphic present
 * sparsely populated, apparently 'empty' landscapes as incsribed sufaces, which he worked hard to better see and read with the assistance of the cultural descendants of the generations of people who had lived in, and left their imprint within those landscapes
 * hidden histories of generations of learning and adaption, hidden within otherwise sparse, landscapes apparently empty of human presence.
 * valuing the apparent economy and affluence of less encumbered lives and lifestyles, as if gaining some glimpse back into a time before society became so burdened with all the trappings of contemporary, western life ..and, expecting this, searching for such less encumbered life. Bruceanthro 03:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * faith in simple, dry in simple economic model, built on a few simple principles, processing and crunching, and predicting beyond the reach beyond the reach of memory or conventional understanding .. effectively filling sparsely landscapes backwards in time, and outwards in space. Bruceanthro 05:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Nomadic Pastoralists' Landscapes in Anatolia, Turkey

 * filling otherwise sparse landscape with history, practice and people many generations old, and extending the principles and models to reliable extent and predict upon memory and knowledge. Bruceanthro 05:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * reports on Dr Cribb/ Roger's Anatolia work include as follows:

"The Beduoian Ethnoarchaeological Survey Project (BESP)in Southern Jordan was conducted between April 12 and May 10 1998 .. While earlier ethnoarchaeological surveys in the sourther Levant have provided important data, the have been limited .. [as].. they have tended to focus on the identification and layout of tent camps. The BESP survey has sought to expand and enhance this body of data by using a different methodological approach.

The BESP strategy is based on the methods used by Roger Cribb during his fieldwork in Anatolia (1991). Cribb uses two levels of analysis. The first level focuses on on the physical size of nomadic encampments and the specific architectural components found within them, for example, the careful documentation of the horizontal extent of stratigraphic deposits within sites. The second not only provides detailed plans of specific tents but also plots the location of the inidividual artifacts found both inside and outside these structures... Few archaeologists working in other sub-regions of the Near East have presented as comprehensive a record of ethnoarchaeological data as has Cribb" Bruceanthro (talk) 00:16, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Gatherer-Hunters' Landscapes in Cape York, Australia

 * work with anthropologists pioneering geographical information system, map face to a database collecting together years of Aboriginal site information
 * work on domiculture and shell mounds, and associated 'shell mound' debate for non-conventional archaeological sites, adding significant layers of ethno-archaeology and Aboriginal mythology
 * work with Djungan peoples, within a ranger program, for the purchase, surveying, mapping and management planning of Ngarrabullgan, within Djungan country .. ultimately supplemented by a computer database

Recording and Reclaiming Our Nomadic Heritage
encounters and concerns with heritage legislation
 * encounters, concerns, and efforts at heritage awareness and management
 * persistent and continuing efforts at ethno-archaeology with cultural descendants
 * promoting role of heritage in cultural descendant's reclaiming their lands
 * places located within their landscapes
 * a true scholar unfavoured by academia, favouring the peoples he worked with, and establishing his own community of scholars.
 * documenting heritage as a tool to 'repossess' indigienous peoples and the world with their heritage, his own challenge to terra nullius Bruceanthro 05:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * recommending improved, better, more effective heritage management practices to increases awareness and sensititivity, better mitigate impacts, and best transmit heritage into the future

Repossessing Nomadic People's Cultural Heritage
Here I will refer:
 * work with the Central Land Council and Marcial Langton, developing gentree software for documenting Aboriginal relationship charts for Aboriginal land claims under the Aboriginal Land Act
 * work with Tharpuntoo Legal Service documenting Kondoparinga and Ngarrabullgan as an archaeological and cultural landscape of value, to be purchased and ownership restored to the Kuku Djungan Aboriginal peoples
 * work with Yirrikanji people documenting archaeological and anthropological values to see long term heritage protection, and lands restored to Yirrikandji people
 * work within Tharpuntoo Legal Service the Hopevale Community to see archaeological landscapes within Aboriginal council lands managed and protected, within negotiations with Mitsubishin and Cape Flattery (including Leslie Deveraux and Bruce Rigsby)
 * work with Cape York Land Council, including assistance 'revealing' kinship patterns to assist claim to Lakefield National Park under the Aboriginal Land Act
 * visit to Franklin Dam, to assist promote and advocate archaeological landscape protection in relation to Franklin Dam and world heritage dispute
 * work modelling, developing, documenting and recording heritage and heritage landscapes within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, involving the likes of Henrietta Marrie, Nicky Horsfall, and others (must include reference to Wangetti management planning)
 * involvement in the Skyrail heritage dispute .. Bruceanthro (talk) 05:09, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Life's Work and an Ethno-Archaeological Record that will Endure

 * lasting contribution is what he has left behind; once sparsely documented landscapes have been undeniably populated with heritage located within larger, more far reaching cultural landscapes Bruceanthro 05:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)