Jillian Huntley

I live and work on Kombumerri land. As a settler Australian, I acknowledge that I occupy the unceded lands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

I am an archaeological scientist based in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research where I co-lead the Safeguarding Heritage Theme.
I am interested in the influence of large scale environmental shifts on peoples’ use of art and ritual. I work across the human history of the most climatically dynamic region on Earth - the Australasian Monsoon Domain.

A field archaeologist with 25 years' experience across industry and academia, I work collaboratively with Indigenous custodians and other key stakeholders to co-design and conduct accountable archaeological/conservation research. My work traverses the 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.

My research program has been funded by the National Science Foundation of America and the Australian Research Council, the Australian Nuclear Technology Organisation, the Australian Geographic Society and Australian Institute of Geoscientists.