Sylvia Hallam

Sylvia Hallam
FAHA
Born
Sylvia Joy Maycock

(1927-08-17)17 August 1927
Kettering, East Midlands, England
Died3 June 2019(2019-06-03) (aged 91)
Perth, Western Australia
SpouseHerbert Enoch Hallam
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Western Australia

Sylvia Hallam, FAHA (1927–2019) was an English-born archaeologist who spent most of her academic career in Australia at the University of Western Australia. She is best known as author of Fire and Hearth[1] and as an advocate for the protection of Aboriginal art, particularly at Murujuga in Western Australia.[2]

  1. ^ Hallam, Sylvia (1975), Fire and hearth: A study of Aboriginal usage and European usurpation in south-western Australia, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, ISBN 978-0-85575-036-7
  2. ^ "Vale Professor Sylvia J. Hallam". UWA Publishing. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2022.