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Dr Gillian Garvey

Dr Jillian Garvey

Postdoctoral Fellow
Room: Martin Building 158
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2806
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881
Email: j.garvey@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA/BSc (Hons) PhD, Zoology, La Trobe University

 

I am a zooarchaeologist with formal training in archaeology and zoology, and am interested in prehistoric human hunting and subsistence strategies, as well as environmental and ecological reconstruction of faunal communities. I come from a palaeontological background where during my PhD I focused on the palaeoecology and palaeocommunity of an Early Carboniferous fish locality from the Snowy Plains Formation, Mansfield Basin, Victoria, by considering the vertebrate material, microfossils, plants, tracefossils, taphonomy and geology. My current research focuses on the zooarchaeology of late Pleistocene south-west Tasmania, and aims to provide a better understanding of human subsistence strategies and the palaeoecology of the region during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Research Projects
  • Taphonomic analysis of the fauna from Kutikina Cave, SW Tasmania
  • The Economic Utility of the Bennett’s wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
  • Nutritional Analysis of the Bennett’s wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
  • Direct dating of megafauna bone in Tasmania
Australasian Science
Research Publications

Most recent publications include:

  • Garvey, J. Submitted. Economic utility of the Bennett’s wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus): implications for understanding human hunting strategies in late Pleistocene Tasmania. Quaternary International. 
  • Garvey, J. and Sandy, J.R. In Press. The first record of palaeopathology from the zooarchaeological record of late Pleistocene Tasmania. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
  • Pike-Tay, A., Cosgrove, R., and Garvey, J. 2008 Systematic seasonal land use by late Pleistocene Tasmanian Aborigines. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(9): 2532-2544.
  • Garvey, J. and Hasiotis, S. 2008. An ichnofossil assemblage from the Lower Carboniferous, Snowy Plains Formation, Mansfield Basin, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258:257-276.
  • Garvey, J. 2007. Surviving an Ice Age: the zooarchaeology from SW Tasmania. Palaios. 22(6): 583-585.
  • Garvey, J. 2007. The wallaby hunters of Ice Age Tasmania. Australasian Science, 28(5): 30-33.
  • Holland, T.M., Warren, A., Johanson, Z., Long, J.A., Parker, K., and Garvey, J.  2007. A new species of Barameda (Rhizodontida) and heterochrony in the rhizodontid pectoral fin. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology27(2); 295-315.
  • Garvey, J.M. 2006. Preliminary zooarchaeological interpretations from Kutikina Cave, southwest Tasmania. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2006/1: 58-63.
  • Garvey, J.M. and Turner, S. 2006. Microvertebrates from the Early Carboniferous of Mansfield, Australia. Alcheringa 30(1): 43-62.
  • Garvey, J.M. 2006. An Early Carboniferous Fossil Assemblage from Fish Hill, Mansfield Basin, Australia (Thesis Abstract). The Royal Society of New South Wales, 139: 63-64.
  • Harris, J.M. and Garvey, J.M. 2006. Palaeodistribution of pygmy-possums in Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 140: 1-10.
Research Grants
  • 2008 La Trobe Research Grant ($23,800)
  • 2006 & 2008 La Trobe University Research Travel Grants
  • 2006-2008 La Trobe Postdoctoral Fellowship, Archaeology, La Trobe University
  • 2006 Best paper prize at the Australian Archaeology Association Conference, Beechworth, Victoria.
  • 2006 La Trobe University Research Enhancement Funding Grant with Dr Richard Cosgrove ($11,000)
  • 2004/2005 AIATSIS Research Grant G2004/6909 ($46,000)
  • 2002 Betty Mayne Scientific Research Fund for Earth Sciences, Linnean Society of N.S.W.
  • 2002 Jones-Fenleigh Memorial Fund, SVPCA, United Kingdom
Professional Memberships
  • AAA- Australian Archaeological Association
  • SVP- Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • ICAZ- International Council for Archaeozoology
  • AQUA- Australian Quaternary Association
  • SAA- Society of American Archaeology
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Last Updated: 24 September, 2009