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Dr J. Huntley is an archaeological scientist based at Griffith University, who specialises in the physicochemical characterisation of ochres (mineral pigments), rock art and shelter/cave environments. Her formal qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New England (2015) and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the Australian National University (2006). She works for WHC on an as-needs, casual basis as a specialist heritage advisor and consultant archaeologist.
A field archaeologist with over 15 years of industry experience Jillian’s research blends the physical sciences with archaeological and anthropological approaches. Her collaborative work style blends the physical sciences with archaeological and anthropological approaches.
Jillian’s work has taken place across rugged sandstone escarpments of the Cape York Peninsula, the Kimberley, Sydney Basin and Arnhem Land; the BIF gorges of the central Pilbara; the limestone caves of Island Southeast Asia; and the remote islands of Eastern Torres Strait.
Jillian has a number of professional affiliations being a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and an associate membership of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution. She is a board member for Pigments Revealed International, the membership secretary for Australasian Research Cluster for Archaeological Science and an editorial board member for the Australian Archaeology Journal. Other relevant memberships include the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) and the Australian Rock Art Research Association.
Huntley, J. and L.A. Wallis 2023 The destruction of Australian Aboriginal heritage and its implications for Indigenous peoples globally. In J.A.G. Zarandona, E. Cunliffe and M. Saldi (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Art and Heritage Destruction, pp.384–394. Oxon: Routledge.
Huntley J., P.S.C. Taçon, A. Jalandoni, F. Petchey, E. Dotte-Sarout and M. Sherman Sauffi William 2023 Rock art and frontier conflict in Southeast Asia: Insights from direct radiocarbon ages for the large human figures of Gua Sireh, Sarawak. PLOS ONE.
Wallis, L.A., S. O’Sullivan, M. Nango, D. Djandjomerr, J. Huntley, B.L. MacDonald, C. Nadjamerrek and J. O’Brien 2023 Co-designed archaeological research in the Alligator Rivers region, Northern Territory, Australia. Advances in Archaeological Practice 11(3):274–288.
Ditchfield, K. J. Huntley, I. Ward, J. Webb, T. Doleman and R. Kurpiel 2023 Sourcing Stone and Ochre Artefacts: Why it Matters in Australia (and Beyond). In C.A. Speer, G. Barrientos and R. Parish (eds) Current Studies in Lithic Sourcing and Identification, pp.52–67. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Aubert, M., J. Huntley and A. Watchman 2022 Oxalate issues: comments on ‘Dating correlated microlayers in oxalate accretions from rock art shelters: new archives of paleoenvironments and human activity’. Rock Art Research (39)2: 213-215.
Marshall, M., J. Lee, G. O’Loughlin, K. May and J. Huntley 2022 Preserving the rock art of Kakadu: formative conservation trials during the 1980s. In U. Fredrick, P. Taçon, J. McDonald and S. May (eds), Histories of Australian Rock Art Research, pp. 235–256. Terra Australis, Australian National University Press, Canberra.
Huntley, J. and C. Webster 2022 Impact of fires on rock art. In B. David (ed.) Fires in the GunaiKurnai Landscape, East Gippsland (SE Australia): Characteristics, Cultural Practices and Impacts on Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts, pp.106–113. Archaeopress: Oxford, UK.
Huntley, J. and C. Webster 2022 Impact of fires on ochre sources. In B. David (ed.) Fires in the GunaiKurnai Landscape, East Gippsland (SE Australia): Characteristics, Cultural Practices and Impacts on Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts, pp. 113–116. Archaeopress: Oxford, UK.
Huntley, J., M. Aubert, A.A. Oktaviana, R. Lebe, B. Hakim, B. Burhan, L.M. Aksa, I.M. Geria, M. Ramli, L. Siagian, H.E.A. Brand and A. Brumm 2021 The effects of climate change on the Pleistocene rock art of Sulawesi. Scientific Reports 11 (9833) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87923-3.
Huntley, J., L.A. Wallis, B. Stephenson, Karlk Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation and A. Davis 2021 A multi-technique approach to contextualising painted rock art in the Central Pilbara of Western Australia: Integrating in-field and laboratory methods. Quaternary International 572: 52-73, DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.05.032.
Huntley, J. 2021 Ochre use, sourcing and exchange. In I. McNiven and B. David (eds) Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Australia and New Guinea. Oxford Handbooks 9th June, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190095611.013.21.
Brockwell, S., C. Pardoe, M. Litster, D. Wesley, J. Huntley, M.C.F. Disspain, M.C. Langley, P. Gaffey, R. Scadding and R.C. Willan 2020 Human responses to the freshwater transition on the northern floodplains, Kakadu. Australian Archaeology 86(1): 80-94.
Moore, M.W., K. Westaway, J. Ross, K. Newman, Y. Perston, J. Huntley, S. Keats and M.J. Morwood 2020 Archaeology and art in context: Excavations at the Gunu Site Complex, Northwest Kimberley, Western Australia. PloS ONE, DOI:1 0.1371/journal.pone.0226628.
May, S.K., J. Huntley, M. Marshall, E. Miller, J. A. Hayward, A. Jalandoni, J. Goldhan, I.G. Johnston, J.Lee, G.O’Loughlin, K. May, I. Damingo Sanz and P.S.C. Tacon 2020 New insights into the rock art of Anbangbang Gallery, Kakadu National Park. Journal of Field Archaeology 45(2): 120–134, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2019.1698883.
Huntley, J. 2019 Prologue. In J. Huntley and G. Nash (eds) Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art, pp. iii-vi. Archaeopress: Oxford, UK.
Huntley, J. and G. Nash 2019 Parting Remarks. In J. Huntley and G. Nash (eds) Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art, pp. 213–218. Archaeopress: Oxford, UK.
Brand, H.E.A., D.L. Howard, J. Huntley, P.Kappen, A. Maksimenko, D.J. Paterson, L. Puskar and M.J. Tobin 2019 ‘Research in art and archaeology: Capabilities and investigations at the Australian Synchrotron’, Synchrotron Radiation News 32(6): 3–10, DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2019.1680208
Huntley, J. and G. Nash (eds) 2019 Aesthetics, Applications, Artistry and Anarchy: Essays in Prehistoric and Contemporary Art. Archaepress: Oxford, UK.
David, B., J. Delannoy, F. Petchey, R. Gunn, J. Huntley, P. Veth, K. Genuite, R.J. Skelly, J. Mialanes, S. Harper, S. Ouzman, P. Heaney, R. Cosgrove, J. Field and V. Wong 2019 Dating painting events through by-products of ochre processing: Borologa, Kimberley, Australia. Australian Archaeology 85(1): 57–94.
Aubert, M., A. Brumm and J. Huntley 2018 Early dates for ‘Neanderthal cave art’ may be wrong. Journal of Human Evolution 125: 2215–2217. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.08.004
Aubert,M., P. Setiawan, A. A. Oktaviana,, A. Brumm, P. H. Sulistyarto, E. W. Saptomo, B. Istiawan, T. A. Ma’rifat, V. N. Wahyuono, F. T. Atmoko, J.-X. Zhao, J. Huntley, P. S. C. Taçon, D. L. Howard, H. E. A. Brand 2018. Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo, Nature 564 (7735): 25–257. DOI:10.1038/s41586-018-0679-9.
Huntley, J. 2018 Rock Art, Egyptians and Aliens: Homage as Colonial Instrument. In D. Jorden and R. Bosco (eds) Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology, pp. 47–64. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge.
Chalmin E. and J. Huntley 2018 Rock Art Pigment Characterisation. In B. David and I. McNiven (eds) Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art. Oxford University Press: Oxford. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190607357.013.48.
Clarkson, C., Z. Jacobs, B. Marwick, R. Fullagar, L.A. Wallis, M. Smith, R.G. Roberts, E. Hayes, K. Lowe, X. Carah, A. Florin, J. McNeil, D. Cox, L.J. Arnold, Q. Hua, J. Huntley, H.E.A. Brand, T. Manne, A. Fairbairn, J. Shulmeister, L.Lyle, M. Salina, M. Page, K. Connell, G. Park, K. Norman, T. Murphy and C. Pardoe 2017 New evidence for the human colonisation of northern Australia about 65,000 years ago. Nature 547(7663):303–310.
Brumm, A., M.C. Langley, M.W. Moore, B. Hakim, M. Ramli, I. Sumantri, B. Burhan, A.M. Saiful, L. Siagian, Suryatman, R. Sardi, A. Jusdi, Abdullah, A.P. Mubarak, Haslianae, Hasrianti, A.A. Oktaviana, S. Adhityatama, G.D. van den Bergh, M. Aubert, J. Zhao, J. Huntley, B. Li, R.G. Roberts, E.W. Saptom, Y. Perston and R. Grün 2017 Early human symbolic behaviour in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 18, 114 (16):4105–4110.
Wallis, L.A., J. Huntley, M. Marsh, A. Ewen, A. Watchman and A. Strano 2016 A yellow ochre quarry in the Central Pilbara. Journal of the South Australian Anthropology Society 40: 134–155.
Huntley, J. and C. Freeman 2016 Evaluating non-invasive x-ray techniques for material science investigations of rock art: Community driven Australian research. In R.G. Bednarik, D. Fiore and M. Basile (eds) Paleoart and Materiality: The scientific study of rock art. Archaeopress: London.
Huntley. J., K.E. Westaway, D.B. Gore, M. Aubert, J. Ross, and M.J. Morwood 2016 Non-destructive or non-invasive? The potential effect of X-ray fluorescence spectrometers on luminescence age estimates of archaeological samples. Geoarchaeology: an International Journal 31(6):592–602 DOI: 10.1002/gea.21574.
Huntley, J. 2015 Looking up and looking down: pigment chemistry as a chronological marker in the Sydney Basin rock art assemblage, Australia. Rock Art Research 32(2): 131–145.
Huntley, J., M. Aubert, J. Ross and M. Morwood 2015 One colour, two minerals: a study of mulberry rock art pigment and a mulberry pigment ‘quarry’ from the Kimberley, Northern Australia. Archaeometry 57(1):77–99, DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12073.
Huntley, J. H.E.A. Brand, M. Aubert and M. Morwood 2014 Mineralogical identification of stratified Wandjina motif paint from the Kimberley, Western Australia: The first Australian Synchrotron powder diffraction analysis of rock art. Australian Archaeology 78(1): 33–38.
Sutton, M.J., J. Huntley and B. Anderson 2013 “All our sites are of high significance” Reflections form recent work in the Hunter Valley – Archaeological and Indigenous perspectives. Journal of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. 1: 1–14.
Huntley, J. 2012 Taphonomy or paint recipe? In situ portable x-ray fluorescence analysis of two anthropomorphic motifs from the South Woronora Plateau. Australian Archaeology 75: 78–94.
Huntley, J., A. Watchman and J. Dibden 2011 Characteristics of a pigment art sequence: Woronora Plateau, New South Wales. Rock Art Research 1: 85–97.
Note: Below is a selection of unpublished reports.
Dardengo, M., L.A. Wallis and J. Huntley 2023 The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project Year 3: Fieldwork in Melsonby (Gaarraay) National Park and Melsonby Freehold. Unpublished report prepared for Balnggarrawarra/Melsonby Rangers (South Cape York Catchments) and Balnggarrawarra Aboriginal Corporation.
Dardengo, M., J. Huntley and L.A. Wallis 2022 The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project Year 2: Archaeological Fieldwork on Normanby Station. Unpublished report prepared for Normanby Land Management.
Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, J. Huntley, B. Barker and M. Dardengo 2022 The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project Year 2: Archaeological Fieldwork with the Laura Rangers. Unpublished report prepared for the Laura Rangers.
Huntley, J., M. Dardengo and L.A. Wallis 2022 The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project Year 2: Dhaarba Members of the Buubu Gujin Aboriginal Corporation. Unpublished report prepared for Buubu Gujin Aboriginal Corporation (Dharraba).
Dardengo, M., L.A. Wallis, J. Huntley, C. Morgan, H. Burke and M. Aubert 2022 The Agayrr Bamangay Milbi Project Year 2: Field work in Ngaynggarr National Park, Melsonby (Gaarraay) National Park and Balnggarrawarra Freehold. Unpublished report prepared for Balnggarrawarra Aboriginal Corporation and South Cape York Catchments Inc (Balnggarrawarra/Melsonby Rangers).
Huntley, J., B. MacDonald and R. Crough-Heaton 2022 Kundjeyhmi Ochre Sourcing Project Interim Report on Fieldwork 2022. Unpublished report to Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation and Mirrar Traditional Owners.
Burke, H., L.A. Wallis, M. Dardengo, B. Barker and J. Huntley 2021 Aboriginal Rock Art and Cultural Heritage Management in the Sandstone Country of Southeast Cape York Peninsula: Year 1 Report. Unpublished report prepared for Normanby Land Management.
Burke, H., L.A. Wallis, M. Dardengo, B. Barker and J. Huntley 2021 Aboriginal Rock Art and Cultural Heritage Management in the Sandstone Country of Southeast Cape York Peninsula: Year 1 Report. Unpublished report prepared for Normanby Land Management.
Barker, B., L.A. Wallis, M. Dardengo, J. Huntley and H. Burke 2021 Aboriginal Rock Art and Cultural Heritage Management in the Sandstone Country of Southeast Cape York Peninsula: Year 1 Report. Unpublished report prepared for Buubu Gujin Aboriginal Corporation.
Wallis, L.A., M. Dardengo, B. Barker, H. Burke and J. Huntley 2021 Aboriginal Rock Art and Cultural Heritage Management in the Sandstone Country of Southeast Cape York Peninsula: Year 1 Report. Unpublished report prepared for Balnggarrawarra Aboriginal Corporation and South Cape York Catchments Inc (Balnggarrawarra/Melsonby Rangers).
Huntley, J. August 2021 Museum and field inspections of rock engravings from Preminghana, Tasmania with advice regarding repatriation. Unpublished report for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.
Huntley, J. 2020 Scanning Electron Microscope analysis of black pigment samples from Gua Sireh, Sarawak, Malaysia – Pre-screening for 14C dating. Unpublished report to the Sarawak Museum.
Huntley, J. 2020 Scanning Electron Microscope and portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of painted wooden objects. Unpublished report to Mirarr Traditional Owners and the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation.
Huntley, J. 2019 Appletree Aboriginal Area Plan of Management. Unpublished report to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (Bulga Office), Office of Environment and Heritage and the Wonnarua Advisory Committee.
Huntley, J. and M. Marshall 2018 Scanning Electron Microscopy Analysis of Dark Staining at Ubirr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park. Unpublished report for Kakadu National Park, Jabiru NT.
Huntley, J. 2018 Scanning Electron Microscopy Analysis of a Coptic Tapestry. Unpublished report for Victoria Pearce, principle of Endangered Heritage, ACT.
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