Postgraduate Students
Completed Students
2023
Baker, S. PhD Thesis. A search for identity and significance: The rock art of Ometepe Island, Nicaragua.
Supervisors: Benjamin Smith, Jo McDonald
Grey, E. PhD Thesis, 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, and Kevin Kenneally (external)
He, S. Honours Thesis, Re-telling the Tales of Fat-tailed Macropods: A stylistic analysis of fat-tailed macropods engravings in the Pilbara Region.
Supervisor: Jo McDonald
Lanza, M. PhD Thesis, 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, and Thomas Whitley (external)
Sullivan, K. Honours Thesis, Quantifying the influence of argilliturbation on lithic scatter distribution: a case study from Middle Gidley Island, Murujuga.
Supervisors: Caroline Mather, Kane Ditchfield, Matthias Leopold, and Jo McDonald
Wade, V. PhD Thesis, Rock art of the Holocene marine transgression on the Dampier Archipelago.
Supervisors: Jo McDonald, Peter Veth, Alistair Paterson, and Ken Mulvaney (external)
Wilkinson, S. Honours Thesis, Human Occupation Patterns at Murujuga: A Spatial Analysis of a Terebralia Shell Midden at Enderby 10
Supervisor: Jo McDonald
2021
Beckett, E. PhD Thesis, Contextualising Murujuga Stone Structures: Dampier Archipelago
Supervisors: Jo McDonald, Joe Dortch, Petra Helmholz and Mick O'Leary
Clayton, L. PhD Thesis, Contextualising Great Basin Rock Art. A spatial and stylistic analysis of Volcanic Tableland rock art.
Supervisors: Jo McDonald
Motta, A. PhD Thesis, Animals into humans’: Multispecies encounters, relational ontologies, and social identity in Indigenous rock art from northeast Kimberley, Australia, during the Pleistocene.
Supervisors: Peter Veth, Jo McDonald, Martin Porr
2020
Mayer, L. PhD Thesis, 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.
Vellicky, E. PhD Thesis. Identifying diachronic changes in ochre behaviours throughout the Upper Palaeolithic (ca. 44-12.5 kya) of Southwestern Germany.
Supervisors: Martin Porr, Jo McDonald, Benjamin Smith, Nick Connard