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Jo McDonald

Professor Jo McDonald is a leading Australian archaeologist with over 30 years of experience, specializing in Indigenous archaeology, particularly rock art, landscapes, and community heritage projects. She held the Rio Tinto Chair in Rock Art Studies (2012-2023) and currently leads the Dating Murujuga’s Dreaming and Desert to the Sea projects, alongside collaborations with Pilbara Aboriginal communities. Jo is a member of the Rock Art Network, the Murujuga Stakeholder Reference Group, and Murujuga’s World Heritage Committee, as well as serving on the Australia ICOMOS National Scientific Committee and as Australia’s representative on the ICOMOS International Scientific Rock Art Committee.

Alistair Paterson

Professor Alistair Paterson is an ARC Future Fellow in Archaeology at The University of Western Australia. His research examines the historical archaeology of colonial coastal contact and settlement in Australia’s North West and the Indian Ocean.

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Peter Veth

Professor Peter Veth is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at UWA. His five year project Desert People is working on the archaeology and heritage of communities from Ningaloo, across the Pilbara and into the Western Desert.

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Martin Porr

Associate Professor Martin Porr is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at UWA, working on contemporary heritage aspects of rock art in Europe, Australia, and South Africa. He was previously a Senior Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow.

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Sven Ouzman

Dr Sven Ouzman is an archaeologist who specialises in rock art, graffiti, heritage politics, Indigenous knowledge, intellectual property issues, landscape, creolisation and cross-cultural contact, monuments, origins, and understandings of time.

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Benjamin Smith

Professor Benjamin W Smith is the Chair of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Rock Art.

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Sarah de Koning

Sarah de Koning is the CRAR+M Database Manager. She works closely with CRAR+M staff and partners to coordinate data collection, management and presentation.

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Sam Harper

Dr Sam Harper is the Project Manager and a Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council Desert to the Sea Project. She is an archaeologist and rock art specialist, with research interests in Australia’s Northwest around style, identity, material culture and two-way knowledge exchange with Aboriginal partner communities.

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Emma Beckett

Dr Emma Beckett is the Heritage Liaison Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council Desert to the Sea Project. Her research is focused on how digital technologies and visualisations can be used to enhance understanding of human interaction and modification of past landscapes.

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Laura Mayer

Dr Laura Mayer is Lecturer in Archaeology and provides research assistance on the Deep Time Images in the Age of Globalisation: Contemporary Heritage and Future Opportunities project. She is interested in how heritage interpretation can be improved to create memorable and meaningful experiences for visitors.

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Ying-Li Wu

Ying-Li is a post doctoral researcher working on desert varnish with Dating Murujuga's Dreaming

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John Fairweather

Dr John Fairweather is an Geologist working on the Dating Murujuga's Dreaming Project at The University of Western Australia. His research is focused on characterisation of rock varnish and how it interacts with Deep time.

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Emily Grey

Dr Emily Grey is the Outreach Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council Desert to the Sea Project. Her role focuses on supporting and facilitating intergenerational knowledge transfer and research engagement in schools and communities connected to the project.

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