Archaeology - Dr Liam Brady - Research Interests

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
D.Phil,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2006
"Painting Patterns: Torres Strait Region Rock-Art, NE Australia"

B.A.(Hons.)
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, 2001

Contact:
lmbrady@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
P: +61 (8) 6488 2867
F: +61 (8) 6488 1023

Key Publications

AUSTRALIA:

BRADY, L.M. In Press. Pictures, Patterns and Objects: Rock-Art from the
Torres Strait Islands, NE Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly
Publishing (Indigenous Australia: contemporary debates and issues
Monograph Series)

BRADY, L.M. In Press. “Postcolonial Archaeology with Indigenous
Communities: Partnership Research and Ancestral Engagement in Torres
Strait, NE Australia”, in Handbook to Postcolonialism and Archaeology
(eds. J. Lydon & U. Rizvi) Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.

BRADY, L.M. 2008. Symbolic Language in Torres Strait, NE Australia:
images from rock-art, portable objects, and human scars. Antiquity
82:336-350

BRADY, L.M. 2008. “Mua’s Rock-Art: Design Patterning and Interregional
Interaction”, in Gelam’s Homeland: cultural history on the island of
Mua, Torres Strait. (eds. B. David, D. Tomsana, & M. Quinnell)
Brisbane: Queensland Museum [Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural
Heritage Series]

BRADY, L.M. 2007. A Different Look: Comparative Rock-Art Recording from
the Torres Strait Using Computer Enhancement Techniques. Australian
Aboriginal Studies 1:98-115.

BRADY, L.M. & Kaurareg Aboriginal Community. 2007. A Middle Ground?
Recent Archaeological Investigations from the Kaurareg Archipelago,
South-Western Torres Strait, Queensland. Australian Archaeology. 65:17-
29

BRADY, L.M. 2006. Documenting and Analyzing Rock Paintings from Torres
Strait, NE Australia, with Digital Photography and Computer Image
Enhancement. Journal of Field Archaeology. 31(4):363-379.

BRADY, L.M., David, B., Manas, L., Mualgal Native Title Group, &
McNiven, I.J. 2004. Rock-Paintings of Mua Island: Initial Results from
Torres Strait. Rock-Art Research. 21(1):27-46.

BRADY, L.M. David, B., Manas, L, & Mualgal Native Title Group. 2003.
Community Archaeology and Oral Tradition: Commemorating Cultural
Awareness on Mua Island, Torres Strait. Australian Journal of
Indigenous Education. 31:41-49.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Manas, L., Manas, J., Savage, S., Crouch, J.
Nelleman, G., & BRADY, L. 2004. Goba of Mua: archaeology working with
oral tradition. Antiquity. 78(299): 168-172.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., BRADY, L., & Brayer, J. 2004. Kabadul Kula
rock-art site, Dauan Island, Torres Strait. Memoirs of the Queensland
Museum, Cultural Heritage Series. 3(1):227-256.

CANADA:

Allen, W., BRADY, L.M., & Decontie, P. In Press. “Honouring the Spirits
of the Sacred Pictographs”, in Proceedings of a Conference, Symposium
2007 Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional
Approaches, Ottawa, Canada, September 24-28, 2007. (eds. Dignard, C.,
Helwig, K., Mason, J., Nanowin, K., & Stone, T.) Ottawa: Canadian
Conservation Institute.

Current projects:

Torres Strait Rock-Art Project (far northeastern Queensland)
Yanyuwa Rock-Art Project (southwestern Gulf of Carpenteria)
Kaurareg Archaeological Project (Torres Strait, far northeastern
Queensland)
Algonquin Park Rock-Art Project (northern Ontario, Canada)