Sally K. May

Experience

• 2022–present
  Professor, Adelaide University
• 2017–2021
  Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
• 2008–2017
  Senior Lecturer, The Australian National University

Education

• 2006 
  The Australian National University, PhD
• 2000 
  Flinders University of South Australia, Honours
• 1999 
  Flinders University of South Australia, Bachelor or Arts (Archaeology and History)

Publications

• 2022
  Meaningful choices and relational networks: analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
• 2022
  Nayombolmi (c.1895–1967), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography
• 2021
  ‘Our dad’s painting is hiding, in secret place’: Reverberations of a 1972 rock painting episode in Djok Country, western Arnhem Land, Australia, Rock Art Research
• 2021
  A spatial analysis of motif clusters at Nanguluwurr rock art site, Kakadu National Park, N.T. Australia, Journal of Field Archaeology
• 2021
  Kaparlgoo Blue: On the adoption of laundry blue pigment into the visual culture of western Arnhem Land, Australia, International Journal of Historical Archaeology
• 2021
  R. Lamilami, 1957-2021: Negotiating two worlds for cultural heritage, Australian Archaeology
• 2021
  History disappearing: the rapid loss of Australia’s contact period rock art with a case study from the Djarrng site of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Journal of Field Archaeology
• 2021
  The Missing Macassans: Indigenous sovereignty, rock art and the archaeology of absence, Australian Archaeology
• 2020
  New Insights into the Rock Art of Anbangbang Gallery, Kakadu National Park, Journal of Field Archaeology
• 2020
  Children and rock art: A case study from western Arnhem Land, Australia, Norwegian Archaeological Review
• 2020
  The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925 – 1931, ANU Press
• 2020
  The Buffaroo: a ‘first-sight’ depiction of introduced buffalo in the rock art of western Arnhem Land, Rock Art Research
• 2020
  Maliwawa Figures – a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style, Australian Archaeology
• 2020
  Rethinking the age and unity of large naturalistic animal forms in early Western Arnhem Land Rock Art, Australia, Australian Archaeology
• 2020
  How 3D models (photogrammetry) of rock art can improve recording veracity: a case study from Kakadu National Park, Australia, Australian Archaeology
• 2020
  What painting? Encountering and interpreting the archaeological record in western Arnhem Land, northern Australia,, Archaeology in Oceania
• 2020
  Survival, Social Cohesion and Rock Art: The Painted Hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2019
  This is my Father’s Painting: a first-hand account of the creation of the most iconic rock art in Kakadu National Park, Rock Art Research
• 2019
  Navigating Contact: Tradition and Innovation in Australian Contact Rock Art, International Journal of Historical Archaeology
• 2018
  The Archaeology of Maliwawa: 25,000 years of occupation in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land, Australian Archaeology
• 2018
  Reflections on the Pedagogy of Archaeological Field Schools within Indigenous Community Archaeology Programmes in Australia, Public Archaeology
• 2018
  The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific and Australian Perspectives, Routledge
• 2018
  Beyond the colonial encounter: global approaches to contact rock art studies, Australian Archaeology
• 2018
  Memorialization and the Stencilled Rock Art of Mirarr Country, Northern Australia, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2018
  Early Australian Anthropomorphs: the global significance of Jabiluka’s Dynamic Figure rock art, Cambridge Archaeological Journal
• 2013
  Macassan History and Heritage: journeys, encounters and influences, ANU Press
• 2009
  Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, Altamira
• 2008
  Archaeologies of Art: time, place and identity, Left Coast Press

Grants and Contracts

• 2022
  Painting Country: the life and legacy of western Arnhem Land rock painters

  Role:

  ARC Future Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2021
  Art at a Crossroads: Aboriginal responses to contact in northern Australia

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2016
  History Places: Wellington Range rock art in a global context

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2008
  Picturing Change: 21st Century perspectives on recent Australian rock art

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• Australian Archaeological Association
• Australian Rock Art Research Association
• ICOMOS
• World Archaeological Congress