 What I'm studying are sites that as opposed to traditional archaeological sites where you find lots of stone tools and Extremely easily diagnostic materials that you can say definitely humans made this The sites I'm looking at can be a bit more controversial at times so some of the sites in the past have been suggested to be bird mounds or just natural earth formations and The problem for this is for the traditional owner communities that live there it's important that they know parts of their landscape and the goal for me is to be able to confirm that these sites are archaeological One of the traditional owners up there up until recently used to make a fishing spears completely organic based with wood and types of resin and things like that and we're able to show that this was being done 2000 years ago and For people living right there to be able to come point to three meters away from where they're living and say that that went on 2000 years ago by your ancestors is Amazing for them to learn and really important for them because as Like Walter Roth. He's an ethnographer from the very early 1900s demonstrated the people up there had other lands taken from them or they were taken from their lands and A lot of what they would otherwise know has been lost as a result of a lot of the problems up there and Just being able to bring that back to them is really important So my supervisor is Dr. Darrell Wesley basically from the get-go. We got on very well Darrell's had a consensus experience working surveying and excavating on a range of archaeological site types in North Australia And more important as well Darrell has a lot of relationships of traditional owners in various regions up in North Australia And this is also important because you want to make sure that the communities up there know that the people who are coming Intend to treat all these sites with care and respect It's a phenomenal environment to say the least just by being part of a new you've got access to well a campus bigger than my Hometown with twice the population. I find it amazing the libraries in particular how If you don't know anything you can educate yourself on it very very quickly And if you don't know anything about it the document delivery people can get to you Well, hopefully I'll have two letters at the start of my name or three at the end. I'd like to perhaps Do less field archaeology because I'll be getting older and do more lecturing or anything academic along those lines