Josephine Flood
| Josephine Flood | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1936 Great Britain |
| Residence | Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Archaeology |
| Institutions | Australian National University, Australian Heritage Commission |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Notable awards | Centenary Medal (2001) |
Josephine Flood, FAHA (born 1936) is an English-born Australian archaeologist, mountaineer, and author.
Josephine Flood was born Josephine Scarr in Yorkshire, England. She took a BA in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge, in 1959, later receiving an MA (1968) and a PhD (1973) from the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis was published as: The Moth Hunters: Aboriginal prehistory of the Australian Alps in 1980.
In 1963, Flood moved to Australia. She married an Australian diplomat the following year, subsequently having three children.
In 1963 at ANU Flood was appointed as a lecturer in Classical Archaeology but in 1964 she transferred into the field of Australian archaeology and commenced a Masters degree.In 1978 Flood was appointed Senior Conservation Officer with the Australian Heritage Commission in Canberra, becoming Assistant Director from 1979 to 1991, where in 1984 she headed the Aboriginal Environment Section. Over 2000 Aboriginal archaeological sites were added to the Register of the National Estate during her time at the AHC. She also contributed to the World Heritage Listing of Kakadu National Park, the Tasmanian South West Wilderness Area and the Willandra Lakes Region of NSW.
Flood indicates that she discovered Cloggs Cave near Buchan, Victoria while driving to another site in eastern Victoria. Her subsequent excavations revealed extensive evidence of Aboriginal stone and bone tools, with the basal layer now dated to the more than 30,000 years.
Flood has followed a theoretical approach involving the use of recent ethnographic information to reinterpret the evidence of prehistoric archaeological material on the basis that "there have only been minor changes in the "stone-age, foraging, semi-nomadic way of life" of Aboriginal people throughout history".
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