Prof. Roland John Fletcher
Reference type	Person
Family name	Fletcher
Given name(s)	Roland John
Title/honorific	Prof.
Overview of activities	Over the past thirty years I have developed a global and interdisciplinary perspective in Archaeology, that integrates research, teaching and service. My fields of expertise are the theory and philosophy of archaeology, the study of settlement growth and decline and the analysis of large-scale cultural phenomena over time. In 1995 I published The Limits of Settlement Growth: a theoretical outline - an analysis of the past 15,000 years of settlement-growth and decline - with Cambridge University Press. I have an international reputation as a radical theorist and as the instigator of the Greater Angkor Project, which derives from my theoretical work and is part of a major research program in Cambodia. As well as teaching across a wide spectrum of archaeology, I have initiated new teaching programs in the Archaeology of Asia and have taught a generation of diverse, innovative professional archaeologists. My combination of teaching and research has created a multi-disciplinary research team of local and international research students and staff, linking the Humanities and the Sciences. This program of research on Angkor has developed international collaborations for the University and has enhanced its public profile through media presentations, such as the National Geographic International TV program “Lost City”. The Angkor research team also serves the intentional community through the applied research of the Living with Heritage Project at Angkor, in collaboration with the Cambodian government and UNESCO.
Curriculum Vitae file	2007_fletcher_CV.doc
Contact details URL	http://www.usyd.edu.au/perl-bin/phlookup.cgi?type ...
Person Role	Teaching staff
Research Projects	Living with Heritage (LWH) (Fletcher, Bruce, Johnson) Greater Angkor Project (GAP) (Fletcher) The Limits of Settlement Growth (Fletcher)
Publications	The Limits of Settlement Growth. A theoretical outline. Fletcher, Roland J. et al., 1995 Settlement Studies - Fletcher, Roland J. (1977) in Clarke, David L. (ed) Spatial Archaeology Issues in the Study of Settlement Space - Fletcher, Roland J. (1978) in Green, David L. et al. (ed) Social Organisation and Settlement Alternatives and Differences - Fletcher, Roland J. (1977) in Spriggs, M (ed) Archaeology and Anthropology People and Space - Fletcher, Roland J. (1981) in Hodder, Ian et al. (ed) Pattern of the Past: Essays in Honour of David Clarke Identifying Spatial Disorder: a case study on a Mongol fort - Fletcher, Roland J. (1984) in Hietala, H. F. (ed) Intrasite Spatial Analysis in Archaeology Very Large Mobile Communities: interaction stress and residential dispersal - Fletcher, Roland J. (1991) in Gamble, C.S. et al. (ed) Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Mobile Campsites: Hunter-gatherer and Pastoralist Case-studies Time perspectivism, Annales, and the potential of archaeology - Fletcher, Roland J. et al. (1992) in Knapp, A.B. (ed) Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory The Evolution of Human Behaviour - Fletcher, Roland J. (1993) in Burenhult, G. (ed) The Illustrated History of Humankind Volume 1: The First Humans The mammoth bone huts of Mezirich - Fletcher, Roland J. (1993) in Burenhult, G. (ed) The Illustrated History of Humankind Volume 1: The First Humans Olduvai Gorge - window on the past - Fletcher, Roland J. (1993) in Burenhult, G. (ed) The Illustrated History of Humankind Volume 1: The First Humans Settlement area and communication in African towns and cities - Fletcher, Roland J. (1993) in Shaw, T et al. (ed) The Archaeology of Africa: Foods, metals and towns The Urban Future - Fletcher, Roland J. (1994) in Burenhult, G. (ed) The Illustrated History of Humankind Volume 5: Traditional peoples today: Continuity and change in the modern world Organized dissonance in cultural message systems - Fletcher, Roland J. (1996) in Maschner, Herbert D. G. (ed) Darwinian Archaeologies African Urbanism: scale, mobility and transformations - Fletcher, R et al. (1989) in Connah, G. (ed) Africa: pre-colonial achievements David Clarke: analytical archaeologist - Fletcher, Roland J. (1999) in Murray, Tim (ed) Archaeologists: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume I Appraising the urban future: an archaeological time perspective - Fletcher, Roland J. (1999) in Murray, Tim (ed) Time and archaeology David Clarke: A brief life - Fletcher, Roland J. (2000) in Murray, Tim (ed) Encyclopedia of the History of Archaeology Materiél Culture: The Archaeology of 20th Century Conflict. Schofield, J. et al., 2002 Angkor - Fletcher, Roland J. in, (ed) Encyclopedia of historical archaeology, Orser, Charles E., 2002 (Routledge) Materiality, space, time and outcome - Fletcher, Roland J. et al. (2004) in Bintliff, J.L. (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Archaeology CA Comment on C.C. Kolb, Demographic Estimates in Archaeology. Fletcher, Roland J. (1985) Current Anthropology 26 Settlement Archaeology: world-wide comparisons. Fletcher, Roland J. (1986) World Archaeology 18 Archaeology and Philosophy. A review article on M. Salmon. Philosophy and Archaeology [1983]. Fletcher, Roland J. (1986) Mankind 16 Human Behaviour Evolution. Fletcher, Roland J. (1988) Tracks thought Time. The Story of Human Evolution. Australian National History, Supplement 2 Social theory and archaeology: diversity, paradox and potential. Fletcher, Roland J. (1989) Mankind 19 Refutation and tradition: an uneasy relationship. Fletcher, Roland J. (1991) Australian Archaeology 33 Sneak Preview – The Limits of Settlement Growth. Fletcher, Roland J. (1994) American Anthropological Newsletter 1994 Seeing Angkor - New views of an old city. A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture. Fletcher, Roland (2001) Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 32-33 The Gossamer City - a new enquiry. Fletcher, Roland J. et al. (2002) Museum International 54 Barbed wire was an invention to control American cows: What is required in a Neo-Darwinian theory of cultural behaviour?. Fletcher, Roland J. (2003) Cambridge Archaeological Journal 13 Angkor. Great temples - vast city. Fletcher, Roland J. (2003) Lotus Leaves 6 Redefining Angkor: Structure and environment in the largest, low density urban complex of the pre-industrial world. Fletcher, R et al. (2003) Udaya 4 Bounded space: the continuous galleries at Angkor. Polkinghorne, Martin et al. (2003) TAASA Review, The Journal of the Asian Art Society of Australia 12 - 2 The contribution of 14C AMS dating to the Greater Angkor archaeological project. Zoppi, U et al. (204) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 223 Vegetation and land-use at Angkor, Cambodia: a dated pollen sequence from the Bakong temple moat. Penny, Dan et al. (2006) Antiquity 80 House Form and Family Arrangement (Fletcher, Roland J) in Space and Community Behaviour (Fletcher, Roland J) in Intensification and Interaction. A Material Behaviour analysis of Mug House (Fletcher, Roland J) in The messages of material behaviour: an analysis of non-verbal meaning (Fletcher, Roland J) in Residential densities, group size and social stress in Australian Aboriginal Settlements (Fletcher, Roland J) in East Coast City: The Post-Modern City and New York in the 21st Century (Fletcher, Roland J) in The risks of urban development: A long term perspective (From the conference on The Effect on Humans of Development, University of Sydney, September 1992). Fletcher, Roland J. (1993) People and Physical Environment Research. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Person-Environment Studies 43 The China TimeMap Project: China and the Silk Roads (Fletcher, Roland J. et al) in Angkor: Extent, settlement pattern and ecology. Preliminary results of an AIRSAR survey in September 2000. Fletcher, R et al. (2004) Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 24 The Greater Angkor Project 2005-2009: Issues and Program (Fletcher, Roland J. et al) in The Formation of Urban Settlements. Fletcher, Roland J., 1981 Human Physical and Behavioural Evolution. Fletcher, Roland J., 1986 The use of AMS 14C dating to explore issues of occupation. Penny, Dan et al. (2007) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 259 Computational Archaeology (Bordes, N. et al) in Living with heritage: site monitoring and heritage values in Greater Angkor and the Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia. Fletcher, Roland J. et al. (2007) World Archaeology 39 - 3
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