Postgraduate Students

Victoria Anderson

Rock art of the Holocene marine transgression on the Dampier Archipelago

victoria.anderson@research.uwa.edu.au

Supervised by: Jo McDonald, Peter Veth, Alistair Paterson, and Ken Mulvaney (external)

Marine Benoit

Investigation of socio-cultural similarities and differences in Balanggarra Country’s stone tools assemblages during the Holocene (northeast Kimberley, Western Australia).

marine.benoit@research.uwa.edu.au

Supervised by: Peter Veth, Martin Porr, Jane Balme, and Jacques Pelegrin (external)

Emily Grey

People, Plants, and Paintings: A relational ecology of the human-environment interface in North-east Kimberley rock art, Australia

emily.grey@research.uwa.edu.au

Supervised by: Martin Porr, Sven Ouzman, Jo McDonald, and Kevin Kenneally (external)

Mariangela Lanza

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.

mariangela.lanza@research.uwa.edu.au

Supervised by: Sven Ouzman, Peter Veth, and Thomas Whitley (external)

Patrick Morrison

Voyaging in Murujuga: A Study of Holocene Maritime Culture and Climate

patrick.morrison@research.uwa.edu.au

Supervised by: Jo McDonald, Mick O’Leary, and Ian Goodwin

Recently Completed

2021

Beckett, E. PhD Thesis, Contextualising Murujuga Stone Structures: Dampier Archipelago

Supervisors: Jo McDonald

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.

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.