Red Ochre, Boodooree National Park, Jervis Bay Territory. Photo: Jillian Huntley
Source data from the scientific analysis of archaeopigments
The physicochemical characterization of archaeological earth minerals, including mineral pigments, generates informative data about their properties, how they may have altered over time (taphonomy), and technologies employed by past people in their preparation and use.
Making primary-source data available to other scholars is an important part of rigorous scientific practice.
Any use of data provided here should appropriately cite the source in accordance with a creative commons attribution/non-commercial/share-alike licence.
Please contact Dr Jillian Huntley if you would like copies of raw spectral files: j.huntley@griffith.edu.au
Archaeopigment Data Files
Archaeopigment Publications
Huntley, J., Wallis, L. A., Stephenson, B., Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation and Davis, A. (2020) A multi-technique approach to contextualising painted rock art in the Central Pilbara of Western Australia: Integrating in-field and laboratory methods. Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.05.032
Brockwell, S., Pardoe, C., Litster, M., Wesley, D., Huntley, J., Disspain, M. C. F., Langley, M.C., Gaffey, P., Scadding, R.and Willan, R. C.(2020) Human Responses to the Freshwater Transition on the Northern Floodplains, Kakadu. Australian Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2020.1764311
Moore, M. W., Westaway, K., Ross, J., Newman, K., Perston, Y., Huntley, J., Keats, S. and Morwood, M. J. (2020) Archaeology and art in context: Excavations at the Gunu Site Complex, Northwest Kimberley, Western Australia. PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226628
May, S. K., Huntley, J., Marshall, M., Miller, E., Hayward, J. A., Jalandoni, A., Goldhan, J., Johnston, I. G., Lee, J., O’Loughlin, G., May, K., Damingo Sanz, I. and Tacon, P. S. C. (2020) New insights into the rock art of Anbangbang Gallery, Kakadu National Park. Journal of Field Archaeology 45(2): 120-134. DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2019.1698883
David, B., Delannoy, J-J., Petchey, F., Gunn, R. G., Huntley, J., Veth, P., Genuite, K., Skelly, R. J., Mialanes, J., Harper, S., Ouzman, S., Heaney, P., Cosgrove, R., Field J. and Vanessa V.(2019) Dating painting events through by-products of ochre processing: Borologa, Kimberley, Australia. Australian Archaeology, 85(1): 57-94.
Huntley, J., George, S., Sutton, M-J., and Taҫon, P. S. C. (2018) Second-hand? Paint chemistry and the age, authenticity and conservation/management of hand stencils from the Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Clarkson, C., Jacobs, Z., Marwick, B., Fullagar,R., Wallis,L. A., Smith, M. A., Roberts, R.G, Hayes, E., Lowe, K., Carah, X., Florin, S. A., McNeil,, J., Cox, D., Hua Q., A., Huntley, J., Brand, H. E. A., Manne, T., Fairbairn, A., Shulmeister, J., Lyle, L., Salinas, M., Mara, Connell, K., Park, G., Norman, K., Murphy, T. and Pardoe, C. (2017) Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago. Nature 547: 306-310, DOI:10.1038/nature22968.
Brumm, A., Langley, M. C., Moore, M. W., Hakim, B., Ramli, M., Sumantri, I., Burhan, B., Saiful, A. M., Siagian, L., Suryatman, Sardi, R., Jusdi, A., Abdullah, A., Pampang Mubarak, A. P., Hasrianti, H., Oktaviana,, A. A., Adhityatama, S., den Bergh, G. D., Aubert, M., Zhao, J-x., Huntley, J., Bo, L., Roberts, R. G., Saptom, E. W., Perston, Y., and Grün, R. (2017) Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 18, 114 (16):4105-10.
Wallis, L., Huntley, J., Marsh, M., Watchman, A., Ewen, A., and Strano, A. (2016). PXRF analysis of a yellow ochre quarry and rock art motifs in the Central Pilbara. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia, 40, 134-155.
Huntley, J. (2015) Looking Up and Looking Down: Pigment Chemistry as a Chronological Marker in the Sydney Basin Rock Art Assemblage, Australia. Rock Art Research 32(2):131-145.
Huntley, J. Aubert, M., Ross, J., Brand H. E. A. and Morwood, M. J. (2015) One Colour, Two Minerals: A study of Mulberry Rock Art Pigment and a Mulberry Pigment ‘Quarry’ from the Kimberley, Northern Australia. Archaeometry 57(1):77-99, DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12073.
Huntley, J. (2012) Taphony or Paint Recipe: In situ portable x-ray fluorescence analysis of two anthropomorphic motifs from the Woronora Plateau, New South Wales. Australian Archaeology, 75, 78-94
Huntley, J., Watchman, A. and Dibden, J. (2011) Characteristics of a Pigment Art Sequence: Woronora Plateau, New South Wales. Rock Art Research, May 2011:85-97.
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