Staff Profiles
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Stephanie Cath-Garling
Archaeologist - Heritage Advisor - Lithics Specialist - Photographer
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Steph has participated in Indigenous cultural heritage management in NSW and Victoria in various capacities for over two decades. She has worked as a Field Director and has been involved in the recording, reporting and excavation of Aboriginal Places in and around the Sydney Basin as well as on the volcanic plains of northwestern Melbourne.
As an accomplished Indigenous lithic artefact specialist, Steph has catalogued and analysed assemblages from numerous projects, including large-scale salvages. She also specialises in the artefact photography of both Aboriginal lithics and historical and industrial artefacts. Her wonderful images have been used in reports and more impressively as the online content for the Wesley Place artefact display in Melbourne’s CBD.
Steph’s research for her PhD (ANU) and Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of St Andrews) focussed on changing patterns of interaction and exchange in Island Melanesia some 2,000 years ago, using the Tanga island group in Papua New Guinea as a case study. This research culminated in a published monograph (University of Otago). Steph undertook extensive fieldwork on Tanga, including the excavation of open coastal and cave/rock-shelter sites and the recording of rock-art. She has analysed pottery and rock-art style, the composition of earthenware pottery, and undertaken sourcing analysis of obsidians and red ochre.
Steph enjoys nature photography, bird watching, community gardening, and singing in a local choir.
As an accomplished Indigenous lithic artefact specialist, Steph has catalogued and analysed assemblages from numerous projects, including large-scale salvages. She also specialises in the artefact photography of both Aboriginal lithics and historical and industrial artefacts. Her wonderful images have been used in reports and more impressively as the online content for the Wesley Place artefact display in Melbourne’s CBD.
Steph’s research for her PhD (ANU) and Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of St Andrews) focussed on changing patterns of interaction and exchange in Island Melanesia some 2,000 years ago, using the Tanga island group in Papua New Guinea as a case study. This research culminated in a published monograph (University of Otago). Steph undertook extensive fieldwork on Tanga, including the excavation of open coastal and cave/rock-shelter sites and the recording of rock-art. She has analysed pottery and rock-art style, the composition of earthenware pottery, and undertaken sourcing analysis of obsidians and red ochre.
Steph enjoys nature photography, bird watching, community gardening, and singing in a local choir.