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When you partner with Artefact, you’ll receive timely and accurate advice on how to integrate archaeology and heritage considerations into your project plans.
Artefact includes specialists across key fields of archaeology and heritage. More importantly, with 30 staff we can assemble a skilled in-house team targeted to your specific requirements
HISTORICAL HERITAGE
As highly experienced project leaders, Artefact has been lead consultant on many major projects. Our planning and management systems ensure that projects are completed in a timely, professional manner, working in partnership with our clients.
Our proudest achievement is our team. We value their skills and talents, and we trust that you will too.
At Artefact we recruit staff who are passionate about the past, skilled in their disciplines and professional in their approach. We all understand the need to balance our rich local heritage with plans that shape the State’s future. These attributes contribute to a great team culture internally – and to exceptional advice and service for you. We support each other to make sure that our clients come first, which is why we have an industry-wide reputation for being responsive, innovative and authoritative.
SANDRA WALLACE, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Artefact was established in 2010 by Dr Sandra Wallace, who remains the company’s Managing Director.
What ever your heritage project we are here to assist. Country or city, desktop or fieldwork, we’ve covered most of New South Wales and ACT. Our advice and services are customised to offer the best guidance on how you can proceed, whatever your project type. We consult right across the scale from neighbourhood architectural practices to multinational developers. But don't take our word for it! Check out our testimonials from our clients.
As a heritage consultant, I engage with clients providing consultation regarding heritage management practices and protocols in NSW. This involves interpretation, detailed historical research, and assessing sites for their heritage and archaeological potential. I specialise in both Aboriginal and Historical archaeology and have over five years’ experience excavating across NSW.
During that time, I have been fortunate enough to excavate and record sites such as Devonshire Cemetery and uncover beautifully crafted Aboriginal lithic stone tools that have been dated up to thirty thousand years old. Throughout this time, I have worked hard to develop my interpretive, research, and excavating skills and strongly believe that clear and positive communication with clients, Aboriginal community members, and the public is essential for good heritage management practices.
Growing up, a love for sword and sandal films, old westerns and anything roughly depicting the Middle Ages soon developed into a love for history. Going into university, I decided that becoming an archaeologist was the equivalent of being on the frontline of historical investigation. I majored in Archaeology at the University of Sydney focusing my degree primarily on Australasian archaeology.
This eventually led to an honour's thesis investigating hydraulic technology utilised within Greater Angkor and throughout the Khmer Empire. I am often asked how I ended up in archaeology with the simple answer being that I cannot imagine doing anything else.
The small and perhaps to some inconspicuous artefact I am holding not only conjures good memories of past excavations but reminds me that as archaeologists we have a responsibility to enquire about the origin and journey of artefacts so that we might better understand the past.
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