Anne Best - Honorary Research Fellow

IoA involvement:

Anne Best graduated at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, in 1994. She was subsequently a Post Graduate Research Student (British Academy Studentship 1995-1999) at the University of Southampton. Research into hunter-gatherer social systems using data from aboriginal societies in Queensland Australia was supervised by Professor Clive Gamble. Her PhD was awarded in 2000.

Anne is currently working with Sue Hamilton on the design of a research project focusing on the material culture of Easter Island/Rapa Nui held in museum collections.

Selected recent publications

Best, A., 2020, Sydney Parkinson: The Connection between Art, Science and Quakerism in Post-Enlightenment Britain. Royal Queensland Historical Society (in press)

Best, A. 2012. The Aboriginal material culture of the Wellesley Islands and adjacent coast, northwest Queensland: Social and environmental factors affecting variations in style. Queensland Archaeological Research 15:1-45.

Best, A. 2005. The monk, the farmer, the merchant, the mother survival tales of rural Cambodia.

Best, A. 2003. Regional variation in the material culture of hunter gatherers social and ecological approaches to ethnographic objects from Queensland, Australia. British Archaeological Reports Ltd