Ania Kotarba-Morley

Ania Kotarba-Morley is a Lecturer in Archaeology at Flinders University's College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, with former posts at Macquarie University and the University of Wollongong. Her research spans maritime and landscape archaeology across the

• Red Sea
• Indian Ocean
• African coasts
• Mediterranean
• South Asia

regions.

She holds a DPhil in Archaeology from the University of Oxford, where her work at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology examined ancient trade ports like Berenike Troglodytica. Her interdisciplinary methodology combines

• geoarchaeology
• geophysics
• sedimentology
• chemical residue analysis

to reconstruct environmental changes and maritime trade dynamics.

Her recent projects include coastal cultural landscapes in Saudi Arabia, Kiribati's maritime heritage, and Egyptian Red Sea ports. She contributes to UNESCO World Heritage evaluations and serves on advisory boards for the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environments (CACHE) and the World Bank's Bisri Dam project in Lebanon.

Scientific Awards:

• 2018 Macquarie Emerging Scholars Award
• 2012 Cecelia Connelly Memorial Scholarship (Women Divers Hall of Fame)

Her publications focus on

• ancient port dynamics
• island colonization patterns
• resin trade in the Indian Ocean
• climate change impacts on archaeological sites

with fieldwork experience across Egypt, Sudan, India, Tanzania, and the Pacific.