Anthea Vella

Team Leader - Heritage (NSW) at Biosis Pty Ltd

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About

Anthea is a Team Leader - Heritage (NSW) with over six years’ experience. Anthea has experience in conducting Aboriginal and historical heritage assessments, surveys, archaeological test excavations, and salvages for a variety of projects throughout NSW. Anthea possesses specialist skills in analysing Ground Penetrating Radar data, and has experience in undertaking desktop assessments, project management, research, and reporting. Anthea's Masters research focused on a Neolithic settlement in Northern Mongolia and utilised geophysical techniques in order to map the palaeolandscape and determine when the site was inhabitable over the past 10,000 years.

Experience

  • Biosis Pty Ltd (Full-time · 8 yrs 2 mos)
    • Team Leader - Heritage (NSW)
      Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Senior Heritage Consultant
      Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Heritage Consultant
      Mar 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Field Archaeologist at GML Heritage
    May 2017 - Mar 2018 · 11 mos

    Field Archaeologist for historical excavations at Randwick, and in Parramatta. Duties included excavation, photography, artefact cleaning and catalouging.

  • Assistant Archaeologist at Sticks and Stones Cultural Resource Management
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2017 · 2 mos

    Surveying and GPS marking of sites at Citic Pacific Mine, Cape Preston WA, in conjunction with Yaburara & Coastal Mardudhunera Aboriginal Corporation (YACMAC).

  • Geophysics Instructor at Northern Mongolia Archaeology Project
    Jul 2017 - Jul 2017 · 1 mo

    Taught students how to use geophysical equipment, complete a magnetometer survey and download data.