Our staff are international leaders in the area of rock art, history, and cultural evolution
Our people work closely with Traditional Owners, community stakeholders, and other international researchers to bring together diverse research interests and technical skills. Our mission is to better understand and promote rock-art, human evolution, cultural heritage, conservation, and Indigenous well-being.
To find out more about members’ individual research strengths, research study supervision and contact details, follow the links below to our Griffith Experts profiles.
Feel free to contact us individually if you have any questions regarding our expertise.
Centre Director, Chair of Rock Art Research
Professor Paul Taçon
Professor Paul Taçon is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2016-2021), Chair in Rock Art Research and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He also directs Griffith University's Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU) and leads research themes in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Griffith's Research Centre of Human Evolution.
PERAHU members
Professor Paul Taçon
Director, Place, Evolution, and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU)
Professor Maxime Aubert
Quaternary geochronology, U-series dating, rock art.
Dr Sally K. May
Rock art, Australian archaeology, contact histories, museum studies and cultural heritage.
Dr Andrea Jalandoni
Rock art; remote sensing; Southeast Asia and Northwestern Pacific archaeology
Dr Tim Maloney
Post Doctoral Fellow, Max Aubert's Future Fellowship Project
Dr Irina Ponomareva
Rock art of Siberia
Ms Fiona McKeague
Operations and logistics, Australian rock art, community engagement
Mr Samuel Dix
PhD Student
Indigenous and Historical archaeology, rock art, Tasmanian heritage policy
Ms Emily Miller
PhD Student
Fibre objects in rock art and museums
Ms Roxanne Tsang
PhD Student
Ethno-archaeology of rock art in PNG, PNG archaeology.
MEET OUR ADVISORS
Contact details
- perahu@griffith.edu.au