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Dating Murujuga's Dreaming
2021 – 2026
Project Overview
This project will bring innovative science to understand the age of the rock art and stone structures of Murujuga, reconstructing and modelling Holocene occupation and voyaging around the Dampier Archipelago.
King Bay high tide
Flooded mangroves at King Bay where the seasonality study was undertaken
Drilling a carbonate core
Matthias Leopold
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The crew after backfilling an excavation
King Bay high tide
Flooded mangroves at King Bay where the seasonality study was undertaken
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Chief Investigators
Jo McDonald
Lead Chief Investigator
Matthias Leopold
Chief Investigator
Malcolm McCulloch
Chief Investigator
Pauline Grierson
Chief Investigator
Janet Hergt
Chief Investigator
Grzegorz Skrzypek
Chief Investigator
Mick O'Leary
Chief Investigator
Partner Investigators
Peter Jeffries
Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation
Luke Smith
Woodside
Ian Seah
Rio Tinto
Post Doctoral Researchers
Luke Gliganic
University of Wollongong
Caroline Mather
The University of Western Australia
Ying-Li Wu
The University of Western Australia
John Fairweather
The University of Western Australia
PhD Candidates
Patrick Morrison
The University of Western Australia
Diego da Silva Turollo
The University of Western Australia
Caitlin Smith
The University of Western Australia
Ishara Pathirage
The University of Melbourne
Researcher Collaborators
Ken Mulvaney
Rock Art
Jen Gleeson
Hydrology
Shawan Dogramaci
Hydrology
Vlad Levchenko
Radiocarbon Dating
Amy Prendagast
Maleacology
Victorien Paumard
Geophysics
Bo Li
OSL Dating
Aleksey Sadekov
Uranium Series Dating
Partners
The Dating Murujuga's Rock Art Project (LP190100724) is an Australian Research Council Linkage Project between The University of Western Australia, The University of Melbourne, The University of Wollongong, Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, Rio Tinto and Woodside.
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