Michael Alexander Smith, BA Hons, MA, PhD, FAHA, FSA, Rhys Jones Medal (2006), Verco Medal (2010), Order of Australia (AM, 2013), UNE Distinguished Alumni (2015), born England 1955, died Canberra 16 October 2022

Abstract

<p>Professor Mike Smith was one of the first cohort of Australian-trained field archaeologists, the generation that completed the primary archaeological exploration of the continent, and the last to have the privilege of working with Aboriginal people who had grown up in the bush without significant outside modification of their societies. In this sense, it was Mike’s cohort that picked up the baton from Rhys Jones and John Mulvaney and identified and initiated research priorities through the 1980s and 1990s. He was also one of John Mulvaney’s first Australian National University students – enrolling in 1974.</p>