Jane Balme

Jane Balme is a Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia and has a BSc (hons) from UWA and a PhD from ANU. For over 30 years she been working in the area of the archaeology of Australian First Nations people. Her major research interests and publications are about people’s subsistence, technology and symbolic adaptations in different geographic regions following their arrival in the Pleistocene continent of Sahul. Over the last decade, she has concentrated her work in the Kimberley in partnership with Indigenous landowners and in collaboration with researchers from other universities and institutions. Most recently this work has included recording carved boab trees. She also has a special interest in the history of the relationships between people and the Australian dog (dingo) following its arrival into Australia in the late Holocene.