Professor Joakim Goldhahn, an internationally acknowledged rock art scholar with more than 25 years’ experience exploring the meaning and significance of rock art, has been appointed the Kimberley Foundation Ian Potter Chair in Rock Art at The University of Western Australia (UWA). He takes up his position at UWA in August. He is based at
Researching, preserving and
promoting Kimberley rock art.
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KFA remains on mission and research continues apace
In these unusual days of lockdown, KFA continues its national mission: telling the story of the earliest human habitation of Australia, and subsequent adaptation and stories of survival. This story begins with the rock art record, and continues with the help of science, archaeology, and cultural knowledge to give us revelations that inform and inspire
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Inaugural Kimberley Foundation Minderoo Chair of Archaeological Science announced
Dr Rachel Popelka-Filcoff, an internationally recognised expert in radioanalytical chemistry and the scientific analysis of Indigenous Australian natural mineral pigments will lead the University of Melbourne’s Archaeological Science Group as the Kimberley Foundation Minderoo Chair in Archaeological Science. She takes up her position as Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Melbourne in June.
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BBC Radio 5 Live interview with Damien Finch
BBC Radio 5 Live “Up all night” – a ~10 minute live radio talk with Nick Garnett. The date of the art work published today in the journal Science Advances, is based on radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests. Gwion paintings in the Kimberley were created around 12,000 years ago, wasp nests suggest. Nick Garnett speaks with Damien
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MUD WASP NESTS TO DATE ANCIENT ABORIGINAL KIMBERLEY ROCK ART
Community & Indigenous radio interview with Damien Finch, PhD student from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne and Ian Waina, Kwini man from Kalumburu community The Wire TO Ian Waina The Kimberley region in Western Australia is a vast gallery of ancient Aboriginal rock art, containing tens of thousands of rock
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Gwion paintings in the Kimberley were created around 12,000 years ago, wasp nests suggest
Enigmatic human figures with elaborate headdresses, arm and waist decorations adorn rock shelters in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. This style of art, known as Gwion, Kiro Kiro or Kujon, was painted by the ancestors of today’s traditional owners around 12,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The Gwion Gwion paintings were created by
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