Aedeen Cremin (born 1940) is an Irish born, Australian archaeologist working in NSW and Canberra.

Life and education

Cremin was born in Ireland and was educated Dublin, Paris, Rome, and London. She moved to Australia in the 1970s and has degrees in archaeology from the

National University of Ireland The National University of Ireland (NUI) () is a federal university system of ''constituent universities'' (previously called '' constituent colleges'') and ''recognised colleges'' set up under the Irish Universities Act 1908, and signifi ...

and

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

Career

Cremin was a lecturer at the

from 1978 to 2000, where she taught archaeology and Celtic studies, and then was a casual lecturer in archaeology as Visiting Fellow at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

and

University of Canberra The University of Canberra (UC) is a public university, public research university with its main campus located in Bruce, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The campus is from Belconnen Town Centre, and from Canberra's Civic, Australian ...

teaching world history up to 2015. She has undertaken fieldwork in northern Portugal between 1988 and 1992 and Angkor, Cambodia from 2001 to 2015. Cremin's research covers landscape archaeology, especially in North Portugal (The Vinhais Survey) and in Australia's industrial heritage (mining and metallurgy), with a particular interest in boundaries and boundary crossings, and she has published numerous works including general texts in archaeology and Celtic Studies. She was the Australian representative on the industrial heritage body, TICCIH in the 1990s.

Publications

Aedeen has worked as heritage editor, for the Australia ICOMOS publication Historic Environment, and the encyclopedia ''Archaeologica: The World's Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures''. She co-authored ''Australia's Age of Iron'' and, most recently, two chapters in ''The Angkorian World'' (ed. Mitch Hendricksen et al., Routledge 2023). Aedeen is sole author of ''The Celts'' and ''The Celts in Europe'' and contributes articles about archaeology to the ''ISAA Review'', journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia.

References

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