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  1. Characterisation of rock varnish at Murujuga (Western Australia): Implications for climate records and petroglyph dating

    Article • Quaternary International, April 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  2. Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History

    Article • Australian Archaeology, March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  3. Stone artefacts on submerged land surfaces: A response to Larcombe et al.

    Article • Geomorphology, January 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  4. Provenance analysis of stone artefact assemblages using petrography and pXRF at Murujuga (the Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, October 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  5. Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

    Article • Archaeometry, July 2025, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  6. Signalling and Mobility: Understanding Stylistic Diversity in the Rock Art of a Great Basin Cultural Landscape

    Article • Arts, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  7. Considering the Whole Environment in the Arctic Past

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 2025, University of Chicago Press

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  8. Challenging Narratives

    Article • March 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  9. Pilbara Fat-Tailed Macropods: Using Multivariate and Morphometric Analyses to Explore Spatial and Stylistic Variability

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  10. A method to date rock engravings using luminescence – tested at Murujuga, Western Australia

    Article • Quaternary Geochronology, December 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  11. On the balance of evidence, peopling of Parramatta, Sydney, Australia, occurred after the Last Glacial Maximum: A reply to Quinn et al. (2023) and Owen et al. (2024)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  12. Late Pleistocene scaphopod beads from Boodie Cave and deep time traditions of personal ornamentation in northwest Australia

    Article • Australian Archaeology, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  13. How many Juukans? The case for heritage conservation strategies into the future

    Article • Australian Archaeology, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  14. Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  15. Deep-Time Images and the Challenges of Globalization

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  16. Luminescence rock surface exposure and burial dating: a review of an innovative new method and its applications in archaeology

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  17. Stone artefacts on the seabed at a submerged freshwater spring confirm a drowned cultural landscape in Murujuga, Western Australia

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, August 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  18. Correction: Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia

    Article • PLOS One, June 2023, PLOS

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  19. New approaches for assessing site formation of submerged lithic scatters

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, June 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  20. The evolution of Australian island geographies and the emergence and persistence of Indigenous maritime cultures

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, May 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  21. Use of micro-analysis to augment the macro-archaeological investigation of an elevated Holocene shell midden, Dampier Archipelago, NW Australia

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, September 2022, Frontiers

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  22. A wet strawman: A response to Ward et al.

    Article • Geoarchaeology, September 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  23. Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

    Article • September 2022, ANU Press

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  24. Beyond the Barriers

    Article • August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  25. The dependable deep time Acacia: Anthracological analysis from Australia’s oldest Western Desert site

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  26. Was Aboriginal population recovery delayed after the Last Glacial Maximum? A synthesis of a terminal Pleistocene deposit from the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  27. Archaeology, deep history and the culture wars: Why most archaeologists have not critiquedDark Emu

    Article • Australian Archaeology, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  28. Seeing and managing rock art at Nganjarli: A tourist destination in Murujuga National Park, Western Australia

    Article • Australian Archaeology, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  29. The integrated cultural landscape of North Gidley Island: Coastal, intertidal and nearshore archaeology in Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), Western Australia

    Article • Australian Archaeology, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  30. A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

    Article • Quaternary International, May 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  31. ‘Disrupting paradise’: Changing pedagogy, practice and specialisations into a collaborative venture to ensure Australian archaeology has a future

    Article • Australian Archaeology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  32. Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia

    Article • PLOS One, July 2020, PLOS

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  33. Seeing the Landscape: Multiple Scales of Visualising Terrestrial Heritage on Rosemary Island (Dampier Archipelago)

    Article • Open Quaternary, January 2020, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  34. Serpents Glen (Karnatukul): New Histories for Deep time Attachment to Country in Australia’s Western Desert

    Article • Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, January 2020, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  35. Stone artifacts in the intertidal zone, Dampier Archipelago: Evidence for a submerged coastal site in Northwest Australia

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  36. Murujuga Mermaid: a ship amongst the Aboriginal rock art

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Tiffany Shellam , Prof. Jo McDonald

  37. A Strategy for Assessing Continuity in Terrestrial and Maritime Landscapes from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), North West Shelf, Australia

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  38. So ends this day:American whalers in Yaburara country, Dampier Archipelago

    Article • Antiquity, February 2019, Antiquity Publications

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  39. Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert

    Article • PLOS One, September 2018, PLOS

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  40. Murujuga Rockshelter: First evidence for Pleistocene occupation on the Burrup Peninsula

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, August 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  41. Testing predictions for symmetry, variability and chronology of backed artefact production in Australia's Western Desert

    Article • Archaeology in Oceania, July 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  42. Underwater archaeology and submerged landscapes in western Australia

    Article • Antiquity, June 2018, Antiquity Publications

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  43. Recognition and value of submerged prehistoric landscape resources in Australia

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, June 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  44. Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago) and the journey towards world heritage recognition

    Article • Australian Archaeology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  45. The Archaeology of Portable Art

    Article • April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  46. Archaeology and Rock Art of the North-West Arid Zone with a Focus on Animals

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  47. Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World: Navigating Symbolism, Meaning and Significance Edited by Liam M. Brady and Paul S.C. Taçon University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2016 ISBNs: 978-1-60732-779-0 (paper); 978-1-60732-498-0 (ebook). Pp. 384. US

    Article • December 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  48. Pilbara rock art: laser scanning, photogrammetry and 3D photographic reconstruction as heritage management tools

    Article • Heritage Science, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  49. Australia’s Rock Art Heritage

    Article • June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  50. Archaeological discontinuities in the southern hemisphere: A working agenda

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  51. Discontinuities in arid zone rock art: Graphic indicators for changing social complexity across space and through time

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  52. Digital technologies and quantitative approaches to recording rock art in the Great Basin, USA

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  53. Identity signalling in shields: how coastal hunter-gatherers use rock art and material culture in arid and temperate Australia

    Article • Australian Archaeology, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  54. Murujuga, Northwestern Australia: When Arid Hunter-Gatherers Became Coastal Foragers

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  55. The Australian Archaeologist’s Book of Quotations

    Article • Australian Archaeology, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  56. I must go down to the seas again: Or, what happens when the sea comes to you? Murujuga rock art as an environmental indicator for Australia's north-west

    Article • Quaternary International, October 2015, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  57. Results from the first intensive dating program for pigment art in the Australian arid zone: insights into recent social complexity

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  58. The Archaeology of Memory: The Recursive Relationship of Martu Rock Art and Place

    Article • Anthropological Forum, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  59. Contemporary Meanings and the Recursive Nature of Rock Art: Dilemmas for a Purely Archaeological Understanding of Rock Art

    Article • Time and Mind, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  60. A Companion to Rock Art

    Article • July 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  61. Pictures of Women: The Social Context of Australian Rock Art Production

    Article • July 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  62. Western Desert Iconography: Rock art mythological narratives and graphic vocabularies

    Article • Diogenes, August 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  63. Lithic Artefact Distribution in the Rouse Hill Development Area, Cumberland Plain, New South Wales

    Article • Australian Archaeology, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  64. Symbolic behaviour and the peopling of the southern arc route to Australia

    Article • Quaternary International, June 2009, Elsevier

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  65. Dreamtime Superhighway (Terra Australis 27) Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

    Article • August 2008, ANU Press

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  66. Dating Of Bush Turkey Rockshelter 3 in the Calvert Ranges establishes Early Holocene Occupation of the Little Sandy Desert, Western Australia

    Article • Australian Archaeology, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  67. Rock Art and Social Identity: A Comparison of Holocene Graphic Systems in Arid and Fertile Environments

    Article • January 2006, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  68. Archaic Faces to Headdresses: The Changing Role of Rock Art Across the Arid Zone

    Article • January 2005, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  69. Media and social context: Influences on stylistic communication networks in prehistoric Sydney

    Article • Australian Archaeology, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  70. Article • Archaeology in Oceania, October 1999, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  71. The depiction of species in macropod track engravings at an Aboriginal art site in western New South Wales. In F.D. McCarthy, Commemorative Papers (Archaeology, Anthropology, Rock Art), ed. Jim Specht

    Article • Records of the Australian Museum Supplement, May 1993, Australian Museum

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  72. The Great Mackerel Rockshelter Excavation: Women In The Archaeological Record?

    Article • Australian Archaeology, December 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Jo McDonald

  73. Article • Archaeology in Oceania, October 1990, Wiley

    Prof. Jo McDonald