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Biography
Jo McDonald is the Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at UWA. She held the Rio Tinto Chair in Rock Art Studies (2012-2017). Jo has recently completed an ARC Future Fellowship (2011-2016). Her Fellowship project studied rock art, social and environmental change in two of the great deserts of the world: the Western Desert in Australia and the Great Basin in the USA.
Prior to taking up her role as Director of CRAR+M, Jo was Director of Jo McDonald CHM Pty Ltd, a leading cultural heritage practice based in Sydney. She has more than 35 years’ experience in managing Indigenous archaeology and has been researching rock art throughout this time.
Roles and responsibilities
Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management
Rio Tinto Chair of Rock Art Studies
2019 UWA Innovation Champion
ARCY2014 Co-Ordinator 2019
ARCY3011 Cor-Ordinator 2019
Future research
Rock Art of the Pilbara
Kimberley and desert art connections
Pilbara and desert art connections
Great Basin rock art
Rock art of the early Americans and Australians
Kimberley and desert art connections
Pilbara and desert art connections
Great Basin rock art
Rock art of the early Americans and Australians
Funding overview
AIATSIS Grant for dating arid zone rock art 2005 Canning Stock Route ARC Linkage Project (Rock Art and Jukurrpa) 2007-2011
Jo was Principal Investigator and JMcD CHM was a Partner organisation.
ARC Future Fellowship: Arid zone rock art of the Western Desert and Great Basin 2011-2016
Lead Chief Investigator - Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming ARC Linkage Project (2015-2018)
Jo was Principal Investigator and JMcD CHM was a Partner organisation.
ARC Future Fellowship: Arid zone rock art of the Western Desert and Great Basin 2011-2016
Lead Chief Investigator - Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming ARC Linkage Project (2015-2018)
Previous positions
Director, Jo McDonald Cultural Heritage Management Pty Ltd
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University
Director, Brayshaw McDonald Pty Ltd
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University
Director, Brayshaw McDonald Pty Ltd
Industrial relevance
As a long term cultural heritage practitioner, Jo has good links with Industry and government, and is well versed in the practicalities of heritage management in Australia. This long term experience has seen her involved as an expert witness in Native Title and Land and Environment Court actions, as well as providing advice to government (Stage and Commonwealth) on heritage matters.
Jo currently sits on the Murujuga Stakeholder Reference Group (WA) and the Murujuga Heritage Committee (WA)
Teaching overview
ARCY 2004 - Rock Art in Archaeology Undergraduate course 2012, 2019
ARCY 2005 - Rock Art Field school (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
ARCY 3011 - Australian Archaeology 2019
Research
Rock art and information exchange;
Gender and rock art;
Arid zone rock art;
The contemporaneity of rock art with other occupation evidence;
Direct-dating rock art;
Rock art and dreaming tracks (Jukurrpa);
Applied rock art research (Native Title arena, National Heritage and World Heritage)
Gender and rock art;
Arid zone rock art;
The contemporaneity of rock art with other occupation evidence;
Direct-dating rock art;
Rock art and dreaming tracks (Jukurrpa);
Applied rock art research (Native Title arena, National Heritage and World Heritage)
Languages
English
written and colloquial French
written and colloquial French
Keywords
- Environmental
- Rock art method and theory
- Archaeological method and theory
- Pleistocene archaeology
- Chronometric dating of pigment art
- Archaeology of gender
- The archaeology of Indigenous Australia
- Hunter-gatherer archaeology
- Open site archaeology
- Regional archaeological studies
- Application of geographical information systems in archaeology
- Rock art database development
- Visualization of rock art
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Research Output 2006 2019
A Strategy for Assessing Continuity in Terrestrial and Maritime Landscapes from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), North West Shelf, Australia
Veth, P., McDonald, J., Ward, I., O'Leary, M., Beckett, E., Benjamin, J., Ulm, S., Hacker, J., Ross, P. J. & Bailey, G., 25 Apr 2019, In : The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Rock art shows early contact with US whalers on Australia’s remote northwest coast
McDonald, J., Paterson, A. & Anderson, R., 19 Feb 2019, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Open Access
rock art
archipelago
coast
rock
So ends this day: American whalers in Yaburara country, Dampier Archipelago
Paterson, A., Ross, A., Mulvaney, K., de Koning, S., Dortch, J. & McDonald, J., 18 Feb 2019, In : Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology. 93, 367, p. 218-235 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Open Access
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antiquity
art
history
evidence
Rock Art
The Mermaid? Re-envisaging the 1818 exploration of Enderby Island, Murujuga, Western Australia
Paterson, A., Shellam, T., Veth, P., Mulvaney, K., Anderson, J., Dortch, J. & McDonald, J., 2019, In : Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. p. 1-19 19 p., 0.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
The Murujuga Mermaid: how rock art in WA sheds light on historic encounters of Australian exploration
Paterson, A., McDonald, J. & Shellam, T., 16 May 2019, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Datasets
Karnatukul, Katjarra (Serpents Glen)
McDonald, J. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 23 Mar 2018
Dataset
File
Port Hedland Legacy
McDonald, J. (Creator), Paterson, A. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
Dataset
Chief Investigator Images 2011 - Oblique and aerial images of historic contact sites
Veth, P. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
Dataset
Barrow Island Archaeology Project - General Images
Veth, P. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
Dataset
Investigator Images 2011 - Subterranean Shelter Close-ups
Veth, P. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
Dataset
Projects 2012 2023
CRARM+M Database Research Collaboration
Environmental Systems Solutions
1/08/19 → 31/07/21
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