Claire Smith (archaeologist)

Claire Smith
Claire Smith (centre) with Joan Gero and H. Martin Wobst at WAC-5, Washington D.C., 2005
Born	(1957-07-15) 15 July 1957 (age 67) Sydney, Australia
Education	BA, University of New England, 1990 PhD, University of New England, 1996
Occupation	Archaeologist
Employer	Flinders University
Organization(s)	World Archaeological Congress, President from 2003-2008 & 2008-2014

Claire Smith FSA, FAHA (born 15 July 1957) is an Australian archaeologist specialising in Indigenous archaeology, symbolic communication and rock art. She served as Dean (Research) of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in 2017-2018 and, prior to that, as head of the Department of Archaeology. She served two terms as president of the World Archaeological Congress from 2003 to 2014 and greatly increased the organization's size and visibility. Among her many publications is the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (Springer 2014, 2020).^[1]