Record ID:
35368138 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50031784
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1925-10-26
  • Yarram (Vic.)
Death:
  • 2016-09-21
  • Canberra (A.C.T.)
Fields of activity:
  • Archaeology Prehistoric peoples Australia
Occupations:
  • Archaeologists Historians Professors
Used for:
  • Mulvaney, Derek John
  • Mulvaney, Derek John, 1925-2016
  • Mulvaney, John, 1925-2016
Notes:
  • Entry in the Australian Archaeological Association, as a recipient of the Rhys Jones Medal, viewed September 22, 2016 (John was born in 1925 in Yarram in south Gippsland) https://www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/awards/rhys-jones-medal/john-mulvaney
  • Obituary in the Canberra Times, September 22, 2016 (The man described as the father of Australian archaeology, Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney, has died aged 90) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-22/professor-john-mulvaney,-dies-aged-90/7867808
  • The Age (online) 28 October 2016 obituary, page 31 (John Mulvaney, archaeologist, 26-10-1925 - 21-9-2016. Professor John Mulvaney, who has died aged 90, was the first university-trained archaeologist to work in Australia. After service in the Royal Australian Air Force in Britain, he took a degree in Roman History at the University of Melbourne, followed by a degreee in archaeology and anthropology at Clare College in the University of Cambridge. He returned to the University of Melbourne in 1967 and soon established that Aboriginal people had been living in Australia for some 40,000 years. In 1971 he became foundation Professor of the Department of History (later Prehistory and Archaeology) at the Australian National University, where he retired in 1985. He became involved in controversies over the return to Aborigines of Aboriginal remains from museums. He was awarded CMG in 1982 and Officer of the Order of Australia in 1991, and elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1983.)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)3065
  • abv00321584
  • 000000370083
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX45081
  • (AuCNL)39137
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc