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Jane Balme is an Australian archaeologist and leading researcher in the archaeology of Indigenous Australia. She is currently associate professor in archaeology at the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia.
Jane grew up mainly in Western Australia and was awarded her bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 1979 from the University of Western Australia. As a graduate assistant in archaeology at the Western Australian Museum, she worked on cave sites in South West Australia. This sparked her interest in archaeology, and she enrolled in a PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her PhD research on Pleistocene fishery on the Darling River in western New South Wales was awarded in 1990. She has worked as a consultant to the National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales and as a lecturer in the Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology Department at the University of New England.
Jane has extensive research experience in the...
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Balme, J., and S.E. Bowdler. 2006. Spear and digging stick: The origin of gender and its implications for the colonization of new continents. Journal of Social Archaeology 6 (3): 379–401.
Balme, J., and C. Bulbeck. 2008. Engendering origins: Theories of gender in sociology and archaeology. Australian Archaeology 67: 3–11.
Balme, J., and K.H. Morse. 2006. Shell beads and social behaviour in Pleistocene Australia. Antiquity 80 (310): 799–811.
Balme, J., and S. O’Connor. 2014. Early modern humans in Island Southeast Asia and Sahul: Adaptive and creative societies with simple lithic industries. In East of Africa: Southern Asia, Australia and human origins, ed. R. Dennell and M. Porr, 164–174. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Balme, J., and S. O’Connor. 2015. A ‘port scene’, identity and rock art of the inland southern Kimberley, Western Australia. Rock Art Research 32 (1): 75–83.
Balme, J., and S. O’Connor. 2016. Dingoes and Aboriginal social organisation in Holocene Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 7: 775–781.
Balme, J., I. Davidson, J. McDonald, N. Stern, and P. Veth. 2009. Symbolic behaviour and the peopling of the southern arc route to Australia. Quaternary International 202: 59–68.
Beck, W., and J. Balme. 2005. Benchmarking for archaeology honours degrees in Australian universities. Australian Archaeology 61: 32–40.
Bowdler, S.E., and J. Balme. 2010. Gatherers and grannies: Further thoughts on the origins of gender. Australian Feminist Studies 25 (66): 391–405.
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Arthure, S. (2018). Balme, Jane. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2398-2
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