Mary Dallas (1952–2023) was a Scottish-born Australian archaeologist, who specialised in the area of Aboriginal cultural heritage management.
She also had considerable experience in legal matters related to assessment of the impact of development on heritage protection.
[1] She has completed important Aboriginal heritage assessments for the municipalities of Parramatta,[2] and Blacktown[3] and for the Royal National Park Sydney.
She was a founding and past president of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists, a member of the Australian Rock Art Research Association, member of Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, and one of, if not the first consultants to work in NSW.
Along with Helen Brayshaw, Laila Haglund, Jo McDonald and Val Attenbrow, she was among the first archaeologists in Australia to make their living purely from consulting.