Rock Art of the Western Desert and Great Basin: long term social responses to environmental change

Start date

2011

End date

2017

Research partner(s)

Australian National University

University of Western Australia

University of California

Rock art was integral to modern humans colonising Australia (earth's most arid continent) as well as the deserts of the USA. Major environmental changes have occurred since that initial arrival. This project will explore how rock art production changed in response to changing environment and assess whether or not lessons learnt here can be applied to arid zones globally.

Output(s)

The dependable deep time Acacia: Anthracological analysis from Australia's oldest Western Desert site

Type

Journal article

Authors

Chae Byrne, Emilie Dott-Sarout, Stephen van Leeuwen, Jo McDonald, Peter Veth

Publisher

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Publication date

2021

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Identity signalling in shields: how coastal hunter-gatherers use rock art and material culture in arid and temperate Australia

Type

Journal article

Authors

Jo McDonald, Sam Harper

Publisher

Australian Archaeology

Publication date

2016

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2016.1186345

Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert

Type

Journal article

Authors

Jo McDonald, Wendy Reynen, Fiona Petchey, Kane Ditchfield, Chae Byrne, Dorcas Vannieuwenhuyse, Matthias Leopold, Peter Veth

Publisher

PLoS ONE

Publication date

2018

Rights notice

Copyright: © 2018 McDonald et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

File

file (1).pdf

Link

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202511#ack

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Community / Language group(s)

Project contact(s)

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Researcher(s)

Josephine McDonald

Supporting partner(s)

Complete

Yes

Start date

2011

End date2017

Topic(s)

Closing the Gap focus

Funder(s)

Organisation(s)

Not listed

Indigenous involvement

Indigenous involvement notes

This research was undertaken with the permission of the Mungarlu Ngurrakatja Rirraunkaja Proscribed Body Corporate, and excavation proceeded in accordance with the approved Section 16 Permit (No. 542) granted by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Western Australia, on the 18th April 2013. The 2014 expedition and radiocarbon dating were funded by Jo McDonald’s ARC Future Fellowship (FT100100206). The sites of Serpents Glen and nearby Wirrili were excavated by a UWA team of Jo McDonald, Peter Veth, Joe Dortch, Kane Ditchfield, Sam Harper, Chae Byrne, Birgitta Stephenson, Zoë Hanson and Emily Maddocks, assisted by the Birriliburru traditional owners and Rangers and Ranger Co-Ordinator Po Mowero (Central Desert Native Title Services).

Rock Art of the Western Desert and Great Basin: long term social responses to environmental change

Output(s)

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