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Since the mid-2000s, she has produced a number of publications on space archaeology and is credited for pioneering the concept of space as a cultural landscape and the application of cultural significance assessment to "space junk". Gorman not only explored "Space Race" that happened during the Cold
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Gorman, A.C. (2018). Gravity's playground: dreams of spaceflight and the rocket park in
Australian culture. In Darran Jordan and Rocco Bosco, ed. Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology. Pyramidiots, Paranoia and the Paranormal. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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in 2001. Her doctoral thesis examined how archaeologists can identify tools used in body modification through wear and residue analysis. After graduation, she continued working as a heritage consultant until receiving a permanent academic position at
Flinders University in 2005. Gorman continues to
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In 2019, Gorman published her first book on space archaeology entitled "Dr Space Junk vs The
Universe: Archaeology and the future" for which she was interviewed on the ABC's Conversations program. In December 2019, "Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future" was awarded the John
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Gorman, A. C., 2001, The archaeology of body modification. Identifying symbolic behaviour through use-wear and residues on flaked stone tools. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Division of
Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, School of Human and Environmental Studies, University of New England,
203:. In 2017 she was awarded the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her essay "Trace fossils: The silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium". In 2020, Gorman was given a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of New England. In 2021, the
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Munt, S., Roberts, A. and Gorman, A. (2018). An investigation of human responses to climatic fluctuations at Allen’s Cave, South
Australia, from ca 40,000 to 5,000 BP, by a technological analysis of stone artefacts. Australian Archaeology, 84(1) pp.
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From an early age, Gorman wanted to be both an astrophysicist and an archaeologist. While she ended up pursuing a career in archaeology, she has reconciled the two by turning her research focus onto the archaeology of space exploration, or simply,
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Burke, H.D., Arthure, S.A., De Leiuen, C., McEgan, J. and Gorman, A.C. (2018). In Search of the Hidden Irish: Historical
Archaeology, Identity and "Irishness" in Nineteenth Century South Australia. Historical Archaeology, 52(4) pp.
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Fossils. The silence of Ediacara, the shadow of uranium. In Julianne Schultz and Patrick Allington, ed. Griffith Review 55 State of Hope. Melbourne: Text Publishing, pp. 257-266.
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Smith, C., Burke, H.D., Ralph, J., Pollard, K., Gorman, A.C., Wilson, C.J., et al. (2019). Pursuing social justice through collaborative archaeologies in
Aboriginal Australia. Archaeologies, 15: 536-569.
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Burke, H. D., Gorman, A., Mayes, Ken, and D. Renshaw, 2011, The
Heritage Uncertainty Principle: Excavating Air Raid Shelters from the Second World War. In Katsuyuki Okamura and Akira Matsuda, ed.
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in 1986 with a B.A. (Hons) before working as an archaeological consultant in the
Indigenous heritage management sector. She returned to study in the late 1990s and obtained a Ph.D. from
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Wallis, Lynley and A. C. Gorman, 2010, A time for change? Indigenous heritage values and management practice in the Coorong and Lower Murray Lakes region, South Australia.
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Gorman, A. C. and Beth Laura O'Leary, 2007, An ideological vacuum: the Cold War in space. In John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft (eds)
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