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Jennifer (Jenny) Atchison

Research Interests

• Cultural ecology of plants, wheat in Australia
• Aboriginal landscapes in deep and recent times
• Archaeobotany and ethnobotany of Australian plants
• Fire and disturbance in tropical savannas
• Geography of food

Current projects

• The Wheat Project

Representative Publications

Denham, T., Atchison, J., Austin, J., Bestel, S., Bowdery, D., Crowther, A. et al. (2009) Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guniea: Practice, potential and prospects. Australian Archaeology. 68:1-10.

Atchison J. (2009) Human impacts on Persoonia falcata. Perspectives on post-contact vegetation change in the Keep River region, Australia, from contemporary vegetation surveys. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 18:147-157

Head, L. and J. Atchison (2008) Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies. Progress in Human Geography, 33(2): 236-245

Atchison J. L. Head and R. Fullagar (2005) Archaeobotany of fruit seed processing in a monsoon savanna environment: evidence from the Keep River region, Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32:167-181.

Head L., J. Atchison and R. Fullagar (2002) Country and garden. Ethnobotany, archaeobotany and Aboriginal landscapes near the Keep River, northwestern Australia. Journal of Social Archaeology. Vol 2(2):173-196.

Atchison J., L.M. Head, and L.P. McCarthy (2000) Stomatal parameters and atmospheric change since 7500 years before present. Evidence from Eremophila deserti (Myoporaceae) leaves from the Flinders Ranges South Australia. Australian Journal of Botany, 48:223-232.

Atchison J. and L. Head (1999) Preparing sub-fossil leaves from Leporillus spp. (Stick-nest rat) middens for measuring stomatal parameters. Quaternary Australasia, 17:27-30.

Atchison J. and R. Fullagar (1998) Starch residues on pounding implements from Jinmium rock-shelter in A Closer Look: Recent Australasian Studies of Stone Tools (R. Fullagar ed). Sydney Archaeology Laboratories, Sydney.

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Abbreviated CV

2006-2009 Research Fellow, Casual lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong.

2005-2006 Associate Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong.

2001-2003 Project Officer, World Wide Fund for Nature, Australia.

PhD (2001) University of Wollongong. Continuity and Change: a late Holocene and post contact history of Aboriginal environmental interaction and vegetation process from the Keep River region, Northern Territory.

1996 Research Assistant, University of Wollongong.

1995 Environmental Scientist, Sydney Water.

Bach. Env Sc (1994) (Hons) University of Wollongong. Analysis of food starch residues at the Jinmium archaeological site, Northern Territory.