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.)