Sally Brockwell, BA (Hons) ANU, MA (ANU), PhD (NTU)
ARC Research Associate, Department of Archaeology and Natural History

Biographical Statement

I have recently been involved in a collaborative project with Betty Meehan, analysing shell midden sites from the Blyth River, Northern Territory, funded by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. I am currently working on an ARC Discovery Project, ‘Cultural and Environmental Shifts in Late Holocene East Timor: Evidence for Climate Change?’ with Dr Sue O’Connor (ANU) and Dr Andrew McWilliam (ANU)

Research Interests

Archaeology of northern Australia and South East Asia

Key Publications

• Models, mounds and mobility. Wetlands archaeology in the Top End: Some comparisons. In A. Anderson, Ian Lilley and S. O'Connor (eds) Histories of Old Ages. Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones, pp. 327-42. Pandanus, Canberra, 2001.
• (with A. Clarke and R. Levitus) Seasonal movement in the prehistoric human ecology of the Alligator Rivers region, north Australia. In J. Allen, W. Ambrose, A. Anderson and A. Andrews (eds) Histories of Old Ages. Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones, pp.361-80. Pandanus, Canberra, 2001.
• (ed. with P. Bourke and C. Fredericksen) Darwin Archaeology: Aboriginal, Asian and European Heritage. Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin, 2005.
• Earth mounds in northern Australia: A review. Australian Archaeology (63): 47-56, 2006.
• (with P. Bourke, P. Faulkner and B. Meehan) Climate variability in the mid to late Holocene Arnhem Land region, north Australia: Archaeological archives of environmental and cultural change. In P. Lape (ed.) Climate Change and Archaeology in the Pacific. Archaeology in Oceania42(3): 91-101, 2007.

Career Highlights

Visiting Fellow, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU (2003-2005); Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, ANU (2005-2006).