Claire Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Claire Smith

Australian archaeologist

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1957

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Claire Smith , (born 15 July 1957) is an Australian archaeologist specialising in Indigenous archaeology and rock art.
She served as dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in 2017-2018, and 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 12 books and 150 articles is the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (Springer 2014), for which she served as general editor and which is being produced in a second edition.