Prof Ian McNiven - Researcher Profile

Ian McNiven

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School of Geography & Environmental Science
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Biography

Making mountains out of eel traps

Dr Ian J. McNiven is digging in support of Australian Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and Papua New Guinean communities - with international ramifications. His work is changing understandings of Aboriginal society and what it was like before Europeans got here.

One of Ian’s largest undertakings has been in far north Queensland, where he has helped Torres Strait Islanders with the world’s largest native title claim over the sea. 

“I was the archaeological expert witness.  I was requested to provide detailed background documentation about who Torres Strait Islanders were in the past to assist Justice Paul Finn of the Federal Court of Australia make assessments of the degree of cultural continuity between current generations of Torres Strait Islanders and their ancestors.”

 

Legal precedents are nothing new for the region, however: 

“Torres Strait Islanders seem to lead the way here, with native title claims for the land (the historic Mabo decision), and now they’ve done the same with the sea. They like going for it.”

Ian’s expertise comes from having investigated the origins of Torres Strait Islanders over the past 15 years.

“They’re one of the most specialised maritime cultures in the world, but with lower sea levels ten thousand years ago, Torres Strait was Torres Plain – dry land studded with isolated hills. 

“Why do you have this archipelago now, with these incredible marine specialists, hunting turtles and dugongs, and eating four hundred different species of marine foods? Through our archaeological research out of Monash University, we have been able to track the development of Torres Strait Islander society over 9000 years. 

Also off the Queensland coast, Ian has been involved in studying the archaeology of Aboriginal use of the Great Barrier Reef.

“On the southern Great Barrier Reef, we’ve excavated a site on an island off the coast of Shoalwater Bay that reveals Aboriginal use of marine resources back to 5500 years ago. To get to the island required a canoe voyage across some 25 kilometres of open sea. That is no mean feat in a bark canoe. 

“It is interesting to think that at 5500 years ago, Polynesia wasn’t even on the human global map. There’s nobody in the remote Pacific at this time. It’s empty of people. There’s no such thing as ‘Hawaiians’, there’s no such thing as ‘Easter Islanders’. There are no people in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa and New Zealand – these people don’t exist at this time. The Pacific was a different world back then, and Aboriginal Australians were some of its earliest voyagers.”

One of Ian’s biggest endeavours, however, has been excavations associated with development projects in Papua New Guinea. 

“Basically, we had every single archaeology student and more from the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby, and more from around the world, salvaging archaeological sites before ExxonMobil built their 10 billion dollar gas plant. We would have twenty or so university students digging with us every day – and so we were helping train the future generation of archaeologists in Papua New Guinea. It was an incredibly rewarding exercise.”

Ian has also been instrumental in lobbying for what would be Victoria’s second World Heritage listing: the Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape centring on Lake Condah in the Western District. This landscape contains extraordinary evidence of ancient Aboriginal aquaculture belonging to the Gunditjmara people. 

“We’ve got fish traps going back something like 6500 years, making them some of the world’s oldest. The complexity of it is outstanding – really on a world scale.”

Working closely in partnership with the Gunditjmara people, Ian’s discoveries are helping to force a re-evaluation of Aboriginal Australians as strictly foragers. 

Some of the best work to come out of the excavations in western Victoria, however, has been cross-cultural, rather than archaeological.

“The excavations have been through my field methods class. Because the Aboriginal community owns the land, I get to introduce the students to a completely new dimension of Australia, and it’s probably that dimension which has been the most significant to them. The students can see how the Gunditjmara manage, and look after, their landscapes – that’s the big eye opener for them.”

 

 

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE FIELD OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Institution: University of Queensland
Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Books

David, B., Barker, B., McNiven, I.J. (eds), 2006, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia.

McNiven, I.J., Russell, L., 2005, Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology, AltaMira Press, Lanham USA.

Book Chapters

McNiven, I.J., Brady, L.M., 2012, Rock art and seascapes, in A Companion to Rock Art, eds Jo McDonald and Peter Veth, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, pp. 71-89.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Aplin, K., Mialanes, J., Asmussen, B., Ulm, S., Faulkner, P., Rowe, C., Richards, T.H., 2012, Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast, in Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, eds Simon G Haberle and Bruno David, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 119-154.

McNiven, I., Wright, D., 2008, Ritualised marine midden formation in western Senadh Kes (Torres Strait), in Islands of Inquiry: colonisation seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime landscapes, eds Geoffrey Clark, Foss Leach and Sue O'Connor, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 133-148.

McNiven, I.J., Wright, D.J., 2008, Ritualised marine midden formation in western Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), in Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime landscapes, eds Geoffrey Clark Foss Leach and Sue O'Connor, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 133-147.

McNiven, I.J., 2008, Sentient Sea: Seascapes as Spiritscapes, in Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, eds Bruno David and Julian Thomas, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek CA USA, pp. 149-157.

McNiven, I.J., Russell, L.W., 2008, Towards a postcolonial archaeology of Indigenous Australia, in Handbook of Archaeological Thoeries, eds R Alexander Bentley Herbert D G Maschner and Christopher Chippindale, AltaMira Press, Lanham MD USA, pp. 423-443.

McNiven, I.J., 2006, Colonial diffusionism and the archaeology of external influences on Aboriginal culture, in The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, eds Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J McNiven, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 85-106.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Barker, B., 2006, The social archaeology of indigenous Australia, in The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, eds Bruno David, Bryce Barker and Ian J McNiven, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 2-19.

McNiven, I.J., Russell, L., 2002, Ritual Response: Place marking and the colonial frontier in Australia, in Inscribed Landscapes: marking and making place, eds Bruno David and Meredith Wilson, University of Hawaii Press, Hawaii USA, pp. 27-41.

McNiven, I.J., 2001, Diggers and collectors: the early years of Aboriginal archaeology, in A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors 1854-2000, eds C Rasmussen, Scribe Publicationns, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 214-217.

Russell, L.W., McNiven, I.J., 2001, The Wurundjeri of Melbourne, in Endangered Peoples of Oceania: Struggles to Survive, eds Judith M. Fitzpatrick, The Greenwood Press, London UK, pp. 233-247.

McNiven, I.J., 2001, Torres Strait Islanders and the maritime frontier in early colonial Australia, in Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies, eds L Russell, Manchester University Press, Manchester England UK, pp. 175-197.

David, B., McNiven, I., Attenbrow, V., Flood, J., Collins, J., 1998, Of Lightning Brothers and White Cockatoos: Dating the Antiquity of Signifying Systems in the Northern Territory, Australia, in Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards NSW, pp. 290-304.

Journal Articles

Petchey, F., Ulm, S., David, B., McNiven, I.J., Asmussen, B., Tomkins, H., Richards, T., Rowe, C., Leavesley, M., Mandui, H., Stanisic, J., 2012, 14C Marine Reservoir Variability in Herbivores and Deposit-Feeding Gastropods from an Open Coastline, Papua New Guinea, Radiocarbon [P], vol 54, issue 3-4, University of Arizona Department of Geosciences, Tucson AZ USA, pp. 967-978.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Leavesley, M., Barker, B., Mandui, H., Richards, T., Skelly, R., 2012, A new ceramic assemblage from Caution Bay, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea: The Linear Shell Edge-Impressed Tradition from Bogi 1, Journal of Pacific Archaeology [P], vol 3, issue 1, New Zealand Archaeological Association, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, pp. 73-89.

McNiven, I.J., Crouch, J.A.S., Richards, T.H., Dolby, N.J., Jacobsen, G., Mirring, G., 2012, Dating Aboriginal stone-walled fishtraps at Lake Condah, southeast Australia, Journal Of Archaeological Science [P], vol 39, issue 2, Academic Press, United Kingdom, pp. 268-286.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Richards, T., Rowe, C., Leavesley, M., Mialanes, J., Connaughton, S., Baker, B., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., Faulkner, P., Ulm, S., 2012, Lapita on the south coast of Papua New Guinea: challenging new horizons in Pacific archaeology, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 75, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Australia, pp. 16-22.

McNiven, I., 2011, Backed artefacts as a material dimension of social inclusiveness, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 72, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Australia, pp. 71-72.

David, B., McNiven, I., Richards, T., Connaughton, S., Leavesley, M., Barker, B., Rowe, C., 2011, Lapita sites in the central province of mainland Papua New Guinea, World Archaeology [P], vol 43, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 576-593.

David, B., Geneste, J., Whear, R., Delannoy, J., Katherine, M., Gunn, R., Clarkson, C., Plisson, H., Lee, P., Petchey, F., Rowe, C., Barker, B., Lamb, L., Miller, W., Hoerle, S., James, D., Boche, E., Aplin, K., McNiven, I., Richards, T., Fairbairn, A., Matthews, J., 2011, Nawarla Gabarnmang, a 45,180±910 cal BP site in Jawoyn country, southwest Arnhem Land plateau, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 73, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Australia, pp. 73-77.

McNiven, I., David, B., Richards, T., Aplin, K., Asmussen, B., Mialanes, J., Leavesley, M., Faulkner, P., Ulm, S., 2011, New direction in human colonisation of the Pacific: Lapita settlement of South Coast New Guinea, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 72, Australian Archaeological Association, Australia, pp. 1-6.

McNiven, I., 2011, The Bradshaw Debate: Lessons learned from critiquing colonialist interpretations of Gwion Gwion rock paintings of the Kimberley, Western Australia, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 72, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Australia, pp. 35-44.

McNiven, I., Bell, D., 2010, Fishers and farmers: historicising the Gunditjmara freshwater fishery, western Victoria, The La Trobe Journal [P], vol 85, issue May 2010, State Library of Victoria Foundation, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 83-105.

McNiven, I., David, B., Aplin, K., Pivoru, M., Pivoru, W., Sexton, A., Brown, J., Clarkson, C., Connell, K., Stanisic, J., Weisler, M., Haberle, S., Fairbairn, A., Kemp, N., 2010, Historicising the present: Late holocene emergence of a rainforest hunting camp, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 71, Australian Archeological Association Inc, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 41-56.

McNiven, I., 2010, Navigating the human-animal divide: marine mammal hunters and rituals of sensory allurement, World Archaeology [P], vol 42, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 215-230.

McNiven, I., 2010, 'Oh wonderful beach': the Marind-anim of Papua and ethnographic foundations for an archaeology of a littoral sea people, Artefact: Pacific rim archaeology [P], vol 33, Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria Inc., Australia, pp. 91-108.

Brady, L., Thorn, A., McNiven, I., Evans, T., 2010, Rock art conservation and termite management in Torres Strait, NE Australia, Rock Art Research [P], vol 27, issue 1, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Australia, pp. 19-34.

McNiven, I.J., Brady, L.M., Barham, A., 2009, Kabadul Kula and the antiquity of Torres Strait rock art, Australian Archaeology [P], vol 69, Australian Archaeological Association Inc, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 29-40.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Crouch, J.A.S., Skelly, R.J., Barker, B., Courtney, K., Hewitt, G., 2009, Koey Ngurtai: the emergence of a ritual domain in Western Torres Strait, Archaeology In Oceania [P], vol 44, issue 1, Oceania Publications, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 1-17.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Goemulgau, K., Fitzpatrick, J., 2009, The great Kod of Pulu: Mutual historical emergence of ceremonial sites and social groups in Torres Strait, northeast Australia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal [P], vol 19, issue 3, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, pp. 291-317.

McNiven, I.J., Von Gnielinski, F., 2008, A decorated stone club head (gabagab) from Mua Torres Strait, Memoris of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 553-557.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Weisler, M., 2008, Archaeological excavations at Gerain and Urakaraltam, Queensland Museum. Memoirs. Cultural Heritage Series [P], vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 525-552.

Ash, J.E., Brooks, A., David, B., McNiven, I.J., 2008, European-manufactured objects from the 'Early Mission' site of Totalai Mua (Western Torres Strait), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, vol 4, issue 2, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 473-491.

McNiven, I.J., 2008, Inclusions, exclusions and transitions: Torres Strait Islander constructed landscapes over the past 4000 years, northeast Australia, The Holocene, vol 18, issue 3, Sage, Los Angeles London New Delhi and Singapore, pp. 449-462.

McNiven, I.J., Bedingfield, A., 2008, Past and present marine mammal hunting rates and abundances: dugong (Dugong dugon) evidence from Dabangai Bone Mound, Torres Strait, Journal of Archaeologial Science, vol 35, Elsevier Ltd, London Amsterdam and New York, pp. 505-515.

McNiven, I.J., Crouch, J.A.S., Weisler, M.I., Kemp, N., Martinez, L.C., Stanisic, J., Orr, M.L., Brady, L., Hocknull, S., Boles, W., 2008, Tigershark Rockshelter (Baidamau Mudh): Seascape and settlement reconfigurations on the Sacred islet of Pulu, Western Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), Australian Archaeology [P], vol 66, Ausstralian Archaeological Association Inc, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 15-32.

Crouch, J.A.S., McNiven, I.J., David, B., Rowe, C., Weisler, M., 2007, Berberass: Marine resource specialisation and environmental change in Torres Strait during the past 4000 years, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 42, issue 2, Oceania publications, University of Sydney, pp. 49-64.

McNiven, I.J., 2006, Dauan 4 and the emergence of ethnographically-known social arrangements across Torres Strait during the last 600-800 years, Australian Archaeology, vol 62, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 1-12.

McNiven, I.J., 2006, Late moves on Donax: Aboriginal marine specialisation in southeast Queensland over the last 6000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit Research Report Series, vol 7, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 109-124.

McNiven, I.J., Dickinson, W.R., David, B., Weisler, M.I., Von Gnielinski, F., Carter, M., Zoppi, U.M., 2006, Mask cave: red-slipped pottery and the Australian-Papuan settlement of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), Archaeology in Oceania, vol 41, issue 2, Oceania Publications, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 49-81.

David, D., Hogan, P., Walt, H., Wilson, M., McNiven, I.J., Lawson, E., 2005, Rio de las Vacas Shelter and the distribution of Sudden and San Rafael Side-notched points: high country cultural links during the late Archaic in the American Southwest, The Artefact, vol 27, pp. 113-122.

McNiven, I.J., Fitzpatrick, J., Cordell, J., 2004, An Islander world: managing the archaeological heritage of Torres Strait, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 73-91.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Bowie, W., Nomoa, M., Ahmat, P., Crouch, J.A.S., Brady, L., Quinnell, M., Herle, A., 2004, Archaeology of Torres Strait turtle-shell masks: the Badu Cache, Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol 2004, issue 1, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 18-26.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Mitchell, R., Orr, M.L., Haberle, S.G., Brady, L., Crouch, J.A.S., 2004, Badu 15 and the Papuan-Austronesian settlement of Torres Strait, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 39, issue 2, Oceania Publications, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 65-78.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Manas, L., Manas, J., Savage, S., Crouch, J.A.S., Neliman, G., Brady, L., 2004, Goba of Mua: archaeology working with oral tradition, Antiquity, vol 78, issue 299, Antiquity Publications, England UK, pp. 158-172.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Brady, L., Brayer, J.M., 2004, Kabadul Kula: a rock-art site on Dauan Island,Torres Strait, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Australia, pp. 227-255.

Brady, L.M., David, B., Manas, L., McNiven, I.J., 2004, Rock paintings of Mua Island: initial results from western Torres Strait, Rock Art Research, vol 21, issue 1, Archaeological Publications, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 27-46.

McNiven, I.J., Von Gnielinski, F., 2004, Stone club head manufacture on Dauan Island, Torres Strait, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 291-304.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., Mura Badulgal, Crouch, J.A.S., Brady, L., 2004, The Argan stone arrangement complex, Badu: initial results from Torres Strait, Australian Archaeology, vol 58, Australian Archaeological Association Inc., Adelaide SA Australia, pp. 1-6.

McNiven, I.J., 2004, Torres Strait Islander marine subsistence specialisation and terrestrial animal translocation, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 105-162.

McNiven, I.J., Von Gnielinski, F., Quinnell, M., 2004, Torres Strait and the origin of large stone axes from Kiwai Island, Fly River estuary (Papua New Guinea), Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 271-289.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., 2004, Torres Strait rock-art and ochre sources: an overview, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 209-225.

David, B., McNiven, I.J., 2004, Western Torres Strait cultural history project: research design and initial results, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Cultural Heritage Series, vol 3, issue 1, Queensland Museum, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 199-208.

McNiven, I.J., Feldman, R., 2003, Ritually orchestrated seascapes: hunting magic and dugong bone mounds in Torres Strait, NE Australia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol 13, issue 2, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 169-194.

McNiven, I.J., 2003, Saltwater People: spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of Australian indigenous seascapes, World Archaeology, vol 35, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 329-349.

McNiven, I.J., Thomas, I., Zoppi, U., 2002, Fraser Island Archaeological Project: Background aims and preliminary results of excavations at Waddy Point 1 Rockshelter, Queensland Archaeological Research, vol 13, pp. 1-20.

David, B., Langton, M., McNiven, I.J., 2002, Re-inventing the wheel: indigenous peoples and the master race in Philip Ruddock's "wheel" comments, Philosophy Activism Nature, vol 0, issue 2, LaTrobe University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 31-45.

McNiven, I.J., David, B., Brady, L., 2002, Torres Strait rock-art: an enhanced perspective, Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol 1, issue 2, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 69-74.

David, B., Brayer, J., McNiven, I., Watchman, A., 2001, Why digital enhancement of rock paintings works: rescaling and saturating colours, Antiquity, vol 75, issue 290, Antiquity Publications Ltd, Cambridge UK, pp. 781-792.

David, B., Brayer, J.M., McNiven, I.J., Watchman, A., 2001, Why digital enhancement of rock-art works: rescaling and saturating colours, Antiquity, vol 75, Antiquity Publications Ltd, Cambridge England, pp. 781-792.

McNiven, I.J., 2000, Backed to the Pleistocene, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 35, pp. 48-52.

McNiven, I., David, B., Brayer, J., 2000, Digital Enhancement of Torres Strait Rock-Art, Antiquity, vol 74, Antiquity Trust, Cambridge UK, pp. 759-760.

Watchman, A., David, B., McNiven, I.J., Flood, J., 2000, Micro-Archaeology of Engraved and Painted Rock Surface Crusts at Yiwarlarlay (the Lightning Brothers site), Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 27 issue 4, Academic Press, http://www academicpress.com/jas, pp. 315-325.

McNiven, I.J., 2000, Treats or retreats: Aboriginal island use along the Gippsland coast, southeastern Australia, The Artefact, vol 23, Scribe Publications, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 22-34.

McNiven, I., David, B., Lourandos, H., 1999, Long-term Aboriginal use of Western Victoria: Reconsidering the Significance of Recent Pleistocene Dates for the Grampians-Gariwerd Region, Archaeology in Oceania, vol 34 issue 2, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 83-85.

Other

McNiven, I.J., 2012, Australia, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, vol encyclopedia, Oxford University Press, New York, United States, pp. 152-156.

McNiven, I.J., 2012, Colonialism, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, vol encyclopedia, Oxford University Press, New York, United States, pp. 330-332.

Lourandos, H., David, B., Barker, B., McNiven, I.J., 2006, An interview with Harry Lourandos, The Social Archaeology of Australian Indigenous Societies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra ACT Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
A spatial and temporal study of oven mounds associated with Lake Condah.
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main), Zhu, X (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Boundaries and Connections: Aboriginal visibility on South Australian Rural Landscapes .
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Changing Places - An Archaeological Study of Manikilarr Country 'A Borderland in Western Arnhem Land'.
Supervisors:
David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate), Wright, D (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Echoes of the past: the rock-art of the Little Barra rockshelter Jawoyn country Arnhem.
Supervisors:
David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Historicising the hiri: ceramic trade in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea.
Supervisors:
David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Identification of unknown degradation mechanisms of Lapita archaeological ceramics and methods to arrest degradation pre and post excavation.
Supervisors:
David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Landscapes of the Dead: An Archaeology of the Kaiam people of the Kikori and their continued relatio.
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main), David, B (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Nineteenth century Aboriginal mission churches in Victoria: an interpretation of church ruins and their significance to twenty first century Aboriginal communities.
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main), Lydon, J (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The Aboriginal rock art of Nawarla Gabarnmang.
Supervisors:
David, B (Main), Mcniven, I (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The archaeology of transegalitarian Aboriginal societies in South Western Victoria, Australia.
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main), David, B (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
The source and use life of lithic artifacts from the south coast of Papua New Guinea.
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main), David, B (Associate).
Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
Visualising the past in digital earth systems.
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main), Marriott, K (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Brady, L.
Program of Study:
Painting patterns: Torres Strait region rock-art, NE Australia. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:
Grindrod, J (Main), David, B (Associate), Mcniven, I (Associate).
Student:
Wright, D.
Program of Study:
The archaeology of community emergence and development on Mabuyag in the Western Torres Strait. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Mcniven, I (Main).