Sarah Colley

'''Sarah Colley''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} is an honorary research fellow in the University of Leicester, school of Archaeology and Ancient History. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2011.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/dr-sarah-colley/ |title=Dr Sarah Colley |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London |accessdate=13 January 2022}}</ref>

Colley is interested in using modern digital communication technology and applies them to enhance researches in the field of archaeology.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/8995|title=Digital technologies & archaeological ethics|website=Australian National University open research library |date=18 April 2012|access-date=8 February 2019|last1=Colley|first1=Sarah}}</ref> Because of that interest, she is currently working with Penelope Allison on the development of digital research resources in the Kinchega Archaeological Research Project.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/honorary/colley|title=Sarah Colley|website=University of Leicester|access-date=8 February 2019|archive-date=9 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209231959/https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/honorary/colley|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Education== Colley obtained a bachelor of arts in archaeology at University of Southampton in 1977 and graduated with a PhD from the school of archaeology, University of Southampton in 1984. After completing her PhD Colley went on to become a postdoctoral researcher at the Australian National University on the topic of Australian Aboriginal archaeology.<ref name=":0" />

== Career== She has been a senior lecturer of archaeology at the University of Sydney, and has published articles about teaching archaeology to students in the university level.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Colley, Sarah|title=University-based archaeology teaching and learning and professionalism in Australia|journal=World Archaeology|pages=189–202|date=2004|volume=36|issue=2|doi=10.1080/0043824042000260979|s2cid=144410104}} {{subscription required|via=Taylor & Francis}}</ref> As a senior lecturer, she was able to develop teaching and researching programs in Archaeological ethics and theory, Cultural heritage management, public archaeology, Australian Aboriginal pre-history and Historical archaeology. Colley has specialized in studying shells, fish bones and mammals to try and better understand early humans' diets, economies and environmental changes.<ref>{{citation | last = Colley | first = Sarah | year = 1987 | title = Fishing for Facts. Can We Reconstruct Fishing Methods from Archaeological Evidence? | journal = Australian Archaeology | volume = 24 | issue = 24 | pages = 16–26 | doi = 10.1080/03122417.1987.12093098 | jstor = 40286850 }}</ref> She has worked in sites in England, Scotland and south east Australia. She currently manages the Archaeological Fish Bone Images Archive Tables,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/6253|title=Archaeological Fish Bone Images Archive Tables |website=University of Sydney Library|date=18 June 2010 |access-date=8 February 2019|last1=Colley |first1=Sarah }}</ref> Archaeological fish-bone images<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchdata.ands.org.au/archaeological-fish-bone-images/11151|title=Archaeological fish-bone images |website=Research Data Australia|access-date=8 February 2019}}</ref> and NSW Archaeology Online: Grey Literature Archive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchdata.ands.org.au/nsw-archaeology-online-literature-archive/11113|title=NSW Archaeology Online: Grey Literature Archive |website=Research Data Australia|access-date=8 February 2019}}</ref>

== Selected publications== *{{cite book|last=Colley|first=Sarah|date=2007|title=University-based archaeology teaching and learning and professionalism in Australia|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/uncoveringaustra0000coll/page/251 251]|isbn=978-1588340580|url=https://archive.org/details/uncoveringaustra0000coll/page/251}} *{{cite journal|last=Colley|first=Sarah|date=2018|title=Arable weed seeds as indicators of regional cereal provenance: a case study from Iron Age and Roman central-southern Britain|journal=World Archaeology|volume=36|pages=189–202|issue=2|doi=10.1080/0043824042000260979|s2cid=144410104}} *{{cite book|last=Colley|first=Sarah|title=The Ethics of Cultural Heritage|date=2014|chapter=Ethics and Digital Heritage|publisher=Springer|location=New York, NY|pages=13–32|isbn=978-1-4939-1648-1|doi=10.1007/978-1-4939-1649-8_2}}

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