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Jacqui Tumney

Postgraduate Student Room: Martin Building 157 Tel: (61 3) 9479 1386 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881 Email: jtumney@students.latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science(Honours), University of Melbourne, Graduate Diploma of Humanities and Social Science, La Trobe University, Master of Archaeology, La Trobe University

Research Interests
Australian Indigenous archaeology
Stone tool technology
The effect of landscape processes on archaeological sites Human evolution

Current Research Topic/Supervisor
Topic: Landscape archaeology in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area
Supervisors: Dr Nicola Stern and Dr Richard Cosgrove

Theses/Publications

• Tumney, J.N. 2001. Optical dating of megafauna-bearing aeolian deposits in the Corangamite region, western Victoria. B.Sc.(Hons) Thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
• Tumney, J.N. 2006. Is there an archaeological signature for modern human behaviour? Recognising modern behaviour in the Australian Pleistocene and African Middle Stone Age. M.Arch. Thesis, La Trobe University, Bundoora

Research projects