Peter Hiscock is the inaugural Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He was awarded a DSc by the Australian National University for his contribution to the fields of lithic technology and Australian archaeology, and his book Archaeology of Ancient Australia won the Mulvaney Book Award in 2010. In addition to being a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and a Research Associate of the Australian Museum, Sydney
