Biography

Dr Jillian Huntley is an archaeological scientist based in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Associate of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution. She is interested in the influence of large scale environmental shifts on the way people used art and ritual across the human history of the most climatically dynamic region on Earth - the Australasian Monsoon Domain.

Jillian specialises in the physicochemical characterisation of ochres (mineral pigments), rock art and shelter/cave environments. Her research interests include the materiality of rock art and ochre, the origins of human behavioural complexity (image making and pigment use), the taphonomy of rockshelter/cave environments, and the movement of goods and ideas via trade and exchange.