Associate Professor Jane Balme - Research Interests

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Research interests:

Colonisation of Australia by modern humans; subsistence and social organisation in Indigenous Australia; origins of gender categories.

Some recent publications:

Balme, J. and Bowdler, S. 2006. Spear and Digging stick: The origin of gender and its implications for the colonisation of new continents. Journal of Social Archaeology 6, 379-401.

Balme, J. and Morse, K. 2006. Shell beads and social behaviour in Pleistocene Australia. Antiquity 80, 799-811.

Balme, J. and Paterson, A. (eds) 2006 Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Beck, W. and Balme J. 2005 Benchmarking for Archaeology Honours Degrees? Australian Archaeology 61, 32-40.

Balme, J., and Wilson, M.A. 2004 Perceptions of archaeology in Australia amongst educated young Australians. Australian Archaeology 58,19-24.

Balme, J. and Beck. W. 2002 Starch and charcoal: useful measures of activity areas in archaeological rockshelters. Journal of Archaeological Science 29, 157-166.

Balme, J. 2000. Excavations revealing 40,000 years of occupation at Mimbi Caves in south central Kimberley of Western Australia. Australian Archaeology 51, 1-5.