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Jane Balme began her interest in archaeology while working at the Western Australian Museum, focusing on cave sites in southwestern Australia. She completed her PhD at the Australian National University in 1989, with research on Pleistocene fisheries along the Darling River in New South Wales. Her work spans Indigenous archaeology across various regions, including northern New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. She has secured numerous funding grants, including from the Australian Research Council for her projects on early occupation in the Kimberley and Aboriginal landscape transformations in southwestern Australia. Balme has held previous academic roles as a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of New England from 1986 to 1996. Currently, she teaches several courses, including Digging Past and Indigenous Australian Archaeology, and her research interests include subsistence social organization in Pleistocene Australia, gendered social organization, and ecological and faunal analysis in archaeology.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Formerly a Professor at the University of Western Australia, now an Emeritus Professor actively engaged in research.
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