Kimberley Visions

IN PROGRESS

Rock art style provinces in northern Australia

Project Overview

The project aims to combine high resolution rock art and excavation data from the NE Kimberley, providing a critical link in the Kimberley-Arnhem Land nexus

The Kimberley Visions Project (LP150100490) is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project between Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, Monash University, the University of Melbourne, the Kimberley Foundation Australia, Western Australia’s Department of Parks and Wildlife, Dunkeld Pastoral
and the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management (CRAR+M) at the University of Western Australia (UWA).

2015 – active

Partners

Investigators & Research Staff

Lead Chief Investigator

Dr Sven Ouzman

Chief Investigator

Professor

Peter Veth

Chief Investigator

Professor

Andy Gleadow

Project Manager

Dr Sam Harper

Chief Investigator

Dr Bruno David

Chief Investigator

Associate Professor

Martin Porr

Chief Investigator

Associate Professor

Leslie Zubieta Calvert

Project Updates

Student Spotlight: Ana Paula Motta

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Kimberley Visions COVID-19 Update

Kimberley Visions has now completed four major field seasons between 2016 and 2019. The final planned fieldwork for the project was sched...

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Kimberley Visions Update 2019

In 2019 the Visions team had two field camps on the Carson Plateau and escarpment, the first led by UWA in June and the second, in collab...

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Kimberley Visions Update 2018

Kimberley Visions has completed three field seasons (2016-2018), and is now halfway through the project timeline, with a cumulative 145 f...

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Kimberley Visions Update 2017

Kimberley Visions completed its second year of fieldwork, with two large campaigns on the Drysdale River and King George River. Smaller t...

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Kimberley Visions Update 2016

In 2016 we completed our first field season of this five year ARC Linkage project. Between July and September the team, with additional v...

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Project Outputs

Harper, S., Veth, P., & Ouzman, S. 2020, 'Kimberley Rock Art' in C. Smith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.). (Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology), Netherlands: Springer.

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David, B., Delannoy, J-J., Petchey, F., Huntley, J., Gunn, R., Veth, P., ... Wong, V. 2019, 'Dating painting events through by-products of ochre processing: Borologa 1 Rockshelter, Kimberley, Australia', Australian Archaeology, vol 85(1), pp. 57-94.

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Veth, P., Ditchfield, K., Bateman, M., Ouzman, S., Benoit, M., Motta, A. P., ... Aboriginal Corporation, B. 2019, 'Minjiwarra: archaeological evidence of human occupation of Australia’s northern Kimberley by 50,000 BP', Australian Archaeology, vol. 85(2), pp. 115-125.

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Gunn, R., David, B., Douglas, L., Delannoy, J-J., Harper, S., Heaney, P., ... Veth, P. 2019, ‘Kimberley Stout figures’: a new rock art style for Kimberley rock art, North-Western Australia', Australian Archaeology, vol. 85(2), pp. 151-169.

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Motta, A. P. 2019, 'From Top Down Under: New Insights into the Social Significance of Superimpositions in the Rock Art of Northern Kimberley, Australia', Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 29(3), pp. 479-495.

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Veth, P., Myers, C., Heaney, P., & Ouzman, S. 2018, 'Plants before farming: The deep history of plant-use and representation in the rock art of Australia's Kimberley region', Quaternary International, vol. 489, pp. 26-45.

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Ouzman, S., Veth, P., Myers, C., Heaney, P., & Kenneally, K. 2017, 'Plants before animals? Aboriginal rock art as evidence of ecoscaping in Australia’s Kimberley', in B. David, & I. McNiven (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art Oxford University Press.

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