Understanding the past to protect the future.
With more than 25 years of experience and thousands of projects successfully completed throughout Australia, we have the skills and expertise to meet all your cultural heritage requirements.
STUART HUYS
Stuart Huys is a founding director of CHMA. With over 30 years' experience as a consultant archaeologist, Stuart has worked on more than 1,600 projects and uses this extensive field expertise to provide advice and education on cultural heritage management practice.
Zoe Smith
Senior partner Zoe Smith has been a heritage consultant with CHMA for more than 20 years. Now focussed on project management, Zoe's passion is working for Traditional Owners and proponents to create collaborative and sustainable cultural heritage management solutions.
Dr Sophie Collins
Sophie Collins has worked as a professional archaeologist and heritage consultant for the past 20 years. With extensive academic and professional experience, Sophie is currently one of Australia's leading experts in stone artefact analysis.
Cultural Heritage Management Australia (CHMA) has been delivering comprehensive and effective cultural heritage management services and advice Australia-wide since 1993.
We have extensive expertise in the assessment and management of Indigenous and post-contact/historic cultural heritage and have successfully completed more than 2,000 projects across Australia. These have ranged in scope from simple desktop assessments through to high-profile national infrastructure developments spanning multiple states.
CHMA’s greatest strength is the expertise and diversity of its team, which includes some of Australia’s most experienced heritage practitioners.
And in addition to our core team, CHMA also has a network of specialist associate experts, who provide project-specific advice as required.
CHMA provides comprehensive archaeological and heritage management services for pre-contact and post-contact Indigenous cultural heritage and historic heritage.
Our consultants have been chosen for their qualifications and skills across a diverse range of heritage specialisations including:
- heritage assessment, planning and management
- Indigenous archaeology
- historical archaeology and research
- marine archaeology
- Indigenous community engagement
- artefact analysis and conservation
- bone and tissue analysis
- geospatial technology and geographic information systems
- photogrammetry/computerised 3-D modelling
- soil analysis and stratigraphy
Acknowledgment of Country
CHMA respectfully acknowledge that wherever we are across Australia we are on the unceded land of the First Peoples. We pay respects to the traditional owners of the places we live, work and travel. We are committed to working in allyship with First Peoples and for positive outcomes for Country, heritage and communities.