Doug Williams (BA Hons, Grad Dip App Sci, M.ICOMOS) is a consultant archaeologist at Access Archaeology, and has worked in Indigenous archaeological heritage management since 1992. He has worked in private consulting companies and has also been the Senior Project Archaeologist at Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (1998-2000) and Executive Officer for the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area from 2000-2004 (NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service). He has conducted fieldwork projects across NSW and Victoria and has worked extensively in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. More recently Doug has undertaken PhD level research in the far south-west of Queensland concentrating mainly on sandstone quarries of the Mithaka people. A cornerstone of Doug’s involvement in Australian archaeology has been engagement with Traditional Owner groups. In contributions to wider heritage management ideals, Doug was the cultural heritage specialist on the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Scientific Advisory Panel (2019-21), a State representative to the Australian Archaeological Association (NSW 2019, ACT 2020-23) and is currently a member of the Australia ICOMOS Indigenous Heritage Reference Group, and the expert for archaeology and Aboriginal history on the ACT Heritage Council.
Doug has published in Nature, Nature Communications, Antiquity, Archaeology in Oceania, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences and The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies and a variety of non-peer reviewed places, such as exhibition guides and The Conversation.
