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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.
Chief Investigators
Jo McDonald
UWA (Lead CI)
Matthias Leopold
UWA
Malcolm McCulloch
UWA
Pauline Grierson
UWA
Janet Hergt
University of Melbourne
Grzegorz Skrzypek
UWA
Mick O'Leary
UWA
Partner Investigators
Peter Jeffries
MAC
Luke Smith
Woodside
Ian Seah
Rio Tinto
Collaborating Researchers
Ken Mulvaney
Rock Art
Jen Gleeson
Hydrology
Tanzhuo Liu
Colombia University
Shawan Dogramaci
Hydrology
Vlad Levchenko
Radiocarbon Dating
David Fink
ANSTO
Amy Prendagast
Maleacology
Victorien Paumard
Geophysics
Aaron Cavosie
Curtin University
Bo Li
OSL Dating
Aleksey Sadekov
Uranium Series Dating
Martin Danisik
Curtin University
Project Staff
Luke Gliganic
Caroline Mather
Ying-Li Wu
John Fairweather
Postgraduate Students
Caitlin Smith
Diego da Silva Turollo
Ishara Pathirage
Patrick Morrison
Honours Students
Zoe Southam (UWA)
Lekshmy Santhosh Kumar (UWA)
Matthew Tetlaw (Curtin)
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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