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Richard Cosgrove is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Archaeology at La Trobe University, specializing in Australian and international archaeological research spanning from the Palaeolithic to Holocene periods. His work integrates field investigations across Australia, England, China, Jordan, and France with theoretical approaches in human behavioural ecology.
His educational background includes a BA from the Australian National University, MA from James Cook University, and PhD from La Trobe University. Cosgrove's research expertise encompasses rock art studies, palaeoecology, zooarchaeology, stone artefact analysis, and hunter-gatherer archaeology, with particular focus on Tasmania and Queensland's Wet Tropics region.
Recent publications reveal consistent thematic trends in Aboriginal land management, Pleistocene-Holocene environmental change, and cultural heritage preservation. His work demonstrates interdisciplinary methodologies combining geochemical analysis, isotopic studies, and archaeological fieldwork to address questions of human adaptation, resource use, and landscape transformation over millennia.
Cosgrove has secured multiple Australian Research Council grants including 'Fire, Flood and Food: Archaeologies of the Loddon River Basin' (2021-2025) and 'Well beaten tracks: antiquity of Aboriginal landuse in eastern Tasmania' (2015-2023). He advises the Tasmanian forest industry, ICOMOS, World Heritage Centre, and Tasmanian Aboriginal Lands and Sea Council on cultural heritage matters, while collaborating with Queensland Wet Tropics Aboriginal communities on heritage management.
His fieldwork extends to international contexts including southwest France during the last Ice Age and stone tool analysis in China, reflecting a global perspective on human-environment interactions. Current research emphasizes Indigenous knowledge systems and collaborative approaches to cultural heritage management in partnership with Aboriginal communities.
