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Postgraduate Students
Victoria Anderson
Thesis Title:
Rock art of the Holocene marine transgression on the Dampier Archipelago
Supervisors:
Jo McDonald
Peter Veth
Alistair Paterson
Ken Mulvaney (external)
Lucia Clayton
Thesis Title:
Images in place: a contextualisation of rock art on the Volcanic Tableland, California.
Supervisors:
Jo McDonald
David Zeanah (external) SSU
Mark Basgall (external)
Alistair Paterson
Ana Motta
Thesis Title:
‘Animals into humans’: a study of social identity in northeast Kimberley rock art, Australia
Supervisors:
Peter Veth
Sven Ouzman
Jo McDonald
Martin Porr
Emma Beckett
Thesis Title:
Contextualising the Stone Arrangements of the Dampier Archipelago and Murujuga
Supervisors:
Jo McDonald
Mick O'Leary
Joe Dortch
Petra Helmholz (external)
Emily Grey
Thesis Title:
People, Plants, and Paintings: A relational ecology of the human-environment interface in North-east Kimberley rock art, Australia
Supervisors:
Martin Porr
Sven Ouzman
Jo McDonald
Kevin Kenneally
Marine Benoit
Thesis Title:
Investigation of socio-cultural similarities and differences in Balanggarra Country’s stone tools assemblages during the Holocene (northeast Kimberley, Western Australia).
Supervisors:
Peter Veth
Martin Porr
Jane Balme
Jacques Pelegrin
Mariangela Lanza
Thesis Title:
Understanding human mobility and residence behaviour in Australia’s northeast Kimberley during Late Pleistocene and Holocene. A geospatial analysis of rock art and archaeological sites' distribution patterns.
Supervisors:
Sven Ouzman
Peter Veth
Thomas Whitley (external)
Student Updates
Recently Completed
2020
Mayer, L. PhD Graduand, Authenticity in 3D: immersive rock art replicas in cultural tourism and heritage.
Supervisors: Benjamin Smith and Jo McDonald.
2019
Blunt, Z. Honours Thesis, Sea Level Rise and Islandisation: How did the reconfiguration of Murujuga’s Holocene landscape influence Indigenous people’s occupation and resource exploitation on Enderby and Rosemary Islands?
Supervisors: Jane Balme and Jo McDonald.
Burcham, A. Honours Thesis, A 'Share in the Place': The isolated frontier settlement of West Lewis Island, Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia.
Supervisors: Alistair Paterson and Jo McDonald.
Morrison, P. Honours Thesis, The Geoarchaeology of a Submerged Aboriginal Site in the Intertidal Zone of
Dolphin Island, Murujuga.
Supervisor: Jo McDonald.