Aboriginal astronomy and songline connections

Dr Robert S. Fuller (Bob)

Bob is a late returnee to academia after a 45-year break for a career in first, the military,
and then, industry. He was tertiary educated as an anthropologist/archaeologist, and much
later, after retiring, did a research MPhil at Macquarie University, Sydney, on Indigenous
astronomy, publishing on the cultural astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi peoples of
New South Wales. He has now completed a PhD at the School of Humanities and
Languages, University of NSW, researching the cultural astronomy and songlines of the
saltwater Aboriginal peoples of the New South Wales Coast, under the supervision of Duane
Hamacher (University of Melbourne) and Dan Robinson (University of NSW). He has been
active in outreach to the non-Indigenous community through lectures and non-academic
articles and was the instigator of the successful documentary on Euahlayi astronomy, “Star
Stories of the Dreaming”. He is now an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Science, Western
Sydney University, working with Dr Ray Norris, astrophysicist and early Australian cultural
astronomer.

Bob’s academic publishing is available at
https://westernsydney.academia.edu/RobertFuller .

You can contact him at
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