Dr Sally Brockwell
Areas of expertise
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Archaeology 210101
- Archaeology Of Asia, Africa And The Americas 210103
Biography
My doctoral research was on earth mound sites on the Adelaide River in the Northern Territory. Currently I am involved in several multi-disciplinary collaborative projects: ARC Linkage led by Macquarie University with Partner Organization Rio Tinto Alcan, investigating earth mounds at Weipa with ANU colleague Dr Janelle Stevenson; ARC Linkage with Kakadu National Park, From Prehistory to History: Landscape and Cultural Change on the South Alligator River, Kakadu National Park with ANU colleagues Dr Janelle Stevenson, Dr Ulrike Proske and Dr Robert Levitus; ARC Discovery, Earth Mounds in Northern Australia: Archaeological and Environmental Archives of the Mid to Late Holocene; the Anbarra Project analysing shell midden sites at the Blyth River in central Arnhem Land with colleague Dr Betty Meehan; and Climate Change and Human Behavioural Variability in the Coastal Wet-Dry Tropics of Northern Australia with colleagues Dr Patricia Bourke (ANU), Dr Patrick Faulkner (University of Sydney) and Dr Richard Willan (Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory)
Career highlights
ARC Research Associate (2008-2012) and Fellow (2012-16) Department of Archaeology and Natural History, ANU.
Researcher's projects
Enhancing Cultural Heritage Management for Mining Operations: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach (Lead CI Dr P. Fanning, Macquarie University) (ARC Linkage Project LP110100180)
From Prehistory to History: Landscape and Cultural Change on the South Alligator River, Kakadu National Park with Dr Janelle Stevenson (ANU) (ARC Linkage Project LP110201128)
Earth Mounds in Northern Australia: Archaeological and Environmental Archives of the Mid to Late Holocene (ARC Discovery Project DP120100512)
The Anbarra Archaeological Project with Dr Betty Meehan (AIATSIS & ANU grants)
Climate Change and Human Behavioural Variability in the Coastal Wet-Dry Tropics of Northern Australia with Dr Patricia Bourke (ANU), Dr Patrick Faulkner (USyd) and Dr Richard Willan (Museums and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (ANU grant)
Culture Contact and Cross-Cultural Engagement on the Northern Frontier with Dr Annie Clarke (USyd) (ANU grant)
Mounds of the Murray River with Dr Colin Pardoe (ANU grant)
Available student projects
The department welcomes inquiries from potential research students who would like to develop projects on:
- Archaeology in northern Australia
- Earth mounds in Australia
- Archaeology of East Timor and Indonesia
- Archaeology and climate change
- Cultural heritage in Australia and Island SE Asia
Current student projects
Ms Helen Cooke (PhD candidate): Linking the Past with the Present: Exploring Ethno-Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management in Weipa, Far North Queensland
Mr Billy O'Foghlu (PhD candidate): Mounds of the North: Discerning the Nature of Earth Mounds in Northern Australia
Ms Tristen Jones (PhD candidate) Disentangling the Styles and Chronologies in Northern Australian Rock Art
Ms Charlotte Feakins (PhD candidate) A Forgotten Past: Reawakening Shared Histories of the Buffalo Shooting Industry in Kakadu National Park
Ms Elena Piotto (PhD candidate) Island Life: Technological Adaptations during the Pleistocene in Wallacea
Ms Norma Richardson (PhD candidate) An Assessment of the Integrity and Antiquity of Archaeological Sites on the Cumberland Plain, Sydney
Mr Bethune Carmichael (PhD candidate joint ANU/CDU) Framework for the Adaptation of Indigenous Heritage Sites to the Impacts of Climate Change
Past student projects
Dr Daryl Wesley (PhD 2015): Baijini, Macassans, Balanda, and Bininj: Defining the Indigenous Past of Arnhem Land through Culture Contact
Dr Nick McClean (PhD 2015): Rethinking Cultural Heritage: Culture and Nature in the Australasian Region
Mr Jeff Theys (Master of Archaeological Science 2014) Considerations for a New Typological System of Grinding Technologies in Northern Australia
Mr Damien Finch (Master of Archaeological Science 2013) Western Arnhem Land Rock Art Chronologies with a Human Figure Focus
Publications
- Brockwell, S, Stevenson, J & Clarke, A 2016, 'Plants and archaeology in Australia', in Karen Hardy and Lucy Kubiak-Martens (ed.), Wild harvest: Plants in the hominin and pre-agrarian human worlds, Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, pp. 273-299.
- Brockwell, S, O Foghlu, B, Fenner, J et al 2016, 'New dates for earth mounds at Weipa, North Queensland, Australia', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. online, pp. 1-8.
- Stevenson, J, Brockwell, S, Rowe, C et al 2015, 'The palaeo-environmental history of Big Willum Swamp, Weipa: An environmental context for the archaeological record', Australian Archaeology, vol. 80, pp. 17-31.
- Brockwell, S 2014, 'Meehan, Betty', in C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 4756-4758.
- Brockwell, S 2014, 'O'Connor, Susan', in C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, pp. 5547-5549.
- Brockwell, S 2013, ''Dead Men and Dreamings': Some Reflections on An-barra Archaeology, Australia', in Geoffrey N. Bailey, Karen Hardy and Abdoulaye Camara (ed.), Shell Energy: Mollusc Shells as Coastal Resources, Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 287-298.
- Brockwell, S, O'Connor, S & Byrne, D, eds, 2013, Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia-Pacific Region, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia.
- Brockwell, S 2013, 'Australian wetland occupation before and after the Europeans', in Francesco Menotti and Aidan O'Sullivan (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 211-229.
- Brockwell, S, Marwick, B, Bourke, P et al 2013, 'Late Holocene climate change and human behavioural variability in the coastal wet -dry tropics of northern Australia : Evidence from a pilot study of oxygen isotopes in marine bivalve shells from archaeological sites', Australian Archaeology, vol. 76, pp. 21-33.
- Byrne, D, Brockwell, S & O'Connor, S 2013, 'Introduction: Engaging culture and nature', in Sally Brockwell, Sue O'Connor & Denis Byrne (ed.), Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia-Pacific Region, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 1-11.
- O'Connor, S, Pannell, S & Brockwell, S 2013, 'The dynamics of culture and nature in a 'protected' Fataluku landscape', in Sally Brockwell, Sue O'Connor & Denis Byrne (eds) Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage: Views from the Asia-Pacific Region. ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 203-234.
- McWilliam, A, Bulbeck, F, Brockwell, S et al 2012, 'The Cultural Legacy of Makassar Stone in East Timor', Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 262-279.
- O'Connor, S, McWilliam, A, Fenner, JN, Brockwell, S. 2012, 'Examining the Origin of Fortifications in East Timor: Social and Environmental Factors', Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 200-218.
- Brockwell, C, Meehan, B, O'Connor, S et al 2011, 'Holocene settlement of the northern coastal plains, Northern Territory, Australia', Beagle: records of the museums and art galleries of the northern territory, vol. 2011, no. 27, pp. 1-22.
- Taylor, P & Brockwell, S 2011, 'PAMPHLET - Art Deco In Acton: A Self-guided Walking Tour'.
- Reepmeyer, C, O'Connor, S & Brockwell, S 2011, 'Long-term obsidian use at the Jerimalai rock shelter in East Timor', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 85-90.
- O'Connor, S, Brockwell, C & Pannell, S 2011, 'Whose Culture and Heritage for Whom? The Limits of National Public Good Protected Area Models in Timor Leste', in John N. Miksic, Geok Yian Goh and Sue O'Connor (ed.), Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia, Anthem Press, London, pp. 39-65.
- Brockwell, S, Faulkner, P, Bourke, P et al 2009, 'Radiocarbon Dates from The Top End: A Cultural Chronology for the Northern Territory Coastal Plains', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 1, pp. 54-76.
- Bourke, P & Brockwell, C 2009, 'Book Review: Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe', International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, vol. 38, no. 1 (March), pp. 176-178.
- Brockwell, C 2009, Archaeological Settlement Patterns and Mobility Strategies: Lower Adelaide River, Northern Australia, John and Erica Hedges Ltd, London UK.
- Bourke, P, Brockwell, S, Faulkner, P et al 2007, 'Climate variability in the mid to late Holocene Arnhem Land Region, North Australia: Archaeological Archives of environmental and cultural change', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 91-101.
- Brockwell, S & Akerman, K 2007, 'Bone points from the Adelaide River, Northern Territory', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 1, pp. 111-128.
- Brockwell, S 2006, 'Earth Mounds in Northern Australia: A Review', Australian Archaeology, vol. 63, pp. 47-56.
- Brockwell, S 2006, 'Radiocarbon dates for earth mounds on the Adelaide River, Northern Australia', Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 118-122.
- Bourke, P, Brockwell, C & Fredericksen, C, eds, 2005, Darwin Archaeology: Aboriginal, Asian and European Heritage of Australia's Top End, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, Australia.
- Brockwell, C 2005, 'Settlement patterns on the lower Adelaide River in the Mid to Late Holocene', in P Bourke, S Brockwell, C Fredericksen (ed.), Darwin Archaeology: Aboriginal, Asian and European Heritage of Australia's Top End, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, Australia, pp. 9-18.
- Fredericksen, C, Brockwell, C & Bourke, P 2005, 'Introduction: Physical and cultural transformations in the Darwin Region', in P Bourke, S Brockwell, C Fredericksen (ed.), Darwin Archaeology: Aboriginal, Asian and European Heritage of Australia's Top End, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, Australia, pp. 1-8.
- Brockwell, S, Meehan, B & Ngurrabangurraba, B 2005, 'The An-barra Archaeological Project: A progress report', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 1, pp. 84-89.
- Brockwell, S & Chippindale, C 2005, 'Walter Burley Griffin and a Museum of Archaeology at the Heart of Australia's Capital', Australian Archaeology, vol. 60, pp. 52-54.
- Brockwell, S, ed., 2005, Culture, Conflict Management and Native Title: An Emerging Bibliography, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Canberra.
- Brockwell, C 2001, 'Wetland Archeology in the Top End:Models, Mounds and Mobility', in A.Anderson, I.Lilley & S.O'Connor (ed.), Histories of Old Ages: Essays in honour of Rhys Jones, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 327-340.
- Brockwell, C, Levitus, R & Clarke, A 2001, 'Seasonal movement in the prehistoric human ecology of the Alligator Rivers region, north Australia', in A.Anderson, I.Lilley & S.O'Connor (ed.), Histories of Old Ages: Essays in honour of Rhys Jones, Pandanus Books, Canberra, pp. 361-380.
Projects and Grants
Grants are drawn from ARIES. To add Projects or Grants please contact your College Research Office.
- Earth Mounds in Northern Australia: Archaeological and Environmental Archives of the Mid to Late Holocene (Primary Investigator)
- From Prehistory to History: Landscape and Cultural Change on the South Alligator River, Kakadu National Park (Primary Investigator)
- Enhancing cultural heritage management for mining operations: a multi-disciplinary approach (Secondary Investigator)
