Dr Lynley Wallis

Senior Researcher

Email: lynley.wallis@nd.edu.au

  • Biography

    Lynley comes from Noongar country in southwest WA and has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of WA in Perth and a PhD from The Australian National University in Canberra. She joined Nulungu Research Institute in March 2016 with longstanding interests in Aboriginal cultural heritage and a commitment to undertaking collaborative research partnerships with communities. She has previously worked at James Cook University, for the ACT Government and for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She was also employed as a Senior Lecturer in archaeology at Flinders University (Adelaide) from 2005–2009, before moving to Brisbane to take up a Senior Research Fellow position in the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland for several years. After than until March 2016 she ran her own heritage consulting business and worked as an independent researcher.

  • Teaching areas

    At present Lynley has limited teaching responsibilities at UNDA, although she has extensive past experience in undergraduate and graduate teaching in archaeology and cultural heritage management. She is a recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation "For leadership and innovation in developing an outstanding graduate training program in archaeology and cultural heritage management to produce industry ready graduates". She also regularly assists with training of Aboriginal community members in cultural heritage management as part of professional development opportunities.

  • Research expertise and supervision

    • Human-environment interactions
    • Ethnobotany
    • Aboriginal archaeology, especially in coastal areas and northern Australia
    • Aboriginal-colonist relationships on the frontier
    • The archaeology of the Queensland Native Mounted Police
    • Cultural heritage management
    • Rock art conservation and management

  • Books

  • Book chapters

    • Wallis, L.A. 2018 Chapter 12 Phytolith analysis of sediment samples from Djadjiling (HD07-1A-04), HN-A9 (Jundaru) and HD07-3A-PAD13, Pilbara, Western Australia. In D. Cropper and B. Law (eds), Rockshelter Excavations in the East Hamersley Range, Pilbara Region, Western Australia. British Archaeological Reports International Series, pp359–384. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing.
    • Davidson, I., H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, E. Hatte and N. Cole 2018 Connecting Myall Creek and the Wonomo. In J. Lydon and L. Ryan (eds), Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre, pp.100–111. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing.

  • Journal articles and proceedings

    • Miller, G.H., J.W. Magee, M.L. Fogel, M.J. Wooller, P.P. Hesse, N.A. Spooner, B.J. Johnson and L.A. Wallis 2018 Wolfe Creek Crater: a continuous sediment fill in the Australian arid zone records changes in monsoon strength through the Late Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews 199:108–125.
    • Burke, H., B. Barker, N. Cole, L.A. Wallis, E. Hatte, I. Davidson and K. Lowe 2018 The Queensland Native Police and strategies of recruitment on the Queensland frontier 1849–1901. Journal of Australian Studies. DIO: https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2018.1474942
    • Lowe, K.M., N. Cole, H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, E. Hatte and Rinyirru Aboriginal Corporation 2018 The archaeological signature of ‘ant bed’ mound floors in the northern tropics of Australia: case study on the Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York Peninsula. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19:686–700.
    • Disspain, M.C.F, L.A. Wallis, S. Fallon, M. Sumner, C. St George, C. Wilson, D. Wright, S. Ulm and B.M. Gillanders 2017 Direct radiocarbon dating of fish otoliths from mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) and black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) from Long Point, South Australia. Journal of the Anthropological Society of South Australia 41:3–17.
    • Burke, H., L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, M. Tutty, N. Cole, I. Davidson, E. Hatte and K. Lowe 2017 The homestead as fortress: fact or folklore? Aboriginal History 40:151–177.
    • L.A. Wallis, Davidson, I., H. Burke, S. Mitchell, B. Barker, E. Hatte, N. Cole and K. Lowe 2017 Aboriginal stone huts along the Georgina River, southwest Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 20:1–8.
    • Clarkson, C., Z. Jacobs, B. Marwick, R. Fullagar, L.A. Wallis, M. Smith, R.G. Roberts, E. Hayes, K. Lowe, X. Carah, A. Florin, J. McNeil, D. Cox, L.J. Arnold, Q. Hua, J. Huntley, H.E.A. Brand, T. Manne, A. Fairbairn, J. Shulmeister, L.Lyle, M. Salina, M. Page, K. Connell, G. Park, K. Norman, T. Murphy and C. Pardoe 2017 New evidence for the human colonisation of northern Australia about 65,000 years ago. Nature 547(7663):303–310.
    • Moss, P., S. Ulm, L. Mackenzie, L.A. Wallis, D. Rosendahl and L. Steinberger 2016 Robust local vegetation records from dense archaeological shell matrixes: a palynological analysis of the Thundiy shell deposit, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0394-0
    • Lowe, K.M., S.M. Mentzer, L.A. Wallis and J. Shulmeister 2016 A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: Exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in northern Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. DOI :10.1007/s12520-016-0354-8.
    • Wallis, L.A., J. Huntley, M. Marsh, A. Watchman, A. Ewen and A. Strano 2016 pXRF analysis of a yellow ochre quarry and rock art motifs in the Central Pilbara. Journal of the Anthropological Association of South Australia 40:134–155.
    • Wallis, L.A. and J. Matthews 2016 Built structures in rockshelters of the Pilbara, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 31:1–26.
    • Lowe, K.M., S.M. Mentzer, L.A. Wallis and J. Shulmeister 2016 A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in northern Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. < DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0354-8 >
    • Lowe, K.M., J. Shulmeister, J.M. Feinberg, T. Manne, L.A. Wallis and K. Welsh 2016 Using soil magnetic properties to determine the onset of Pleistocene human settlement at Gledswood Shelter 1, northern Australia. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal.
    • Matthews, J. and L.A. Wallis 2015 Broadcasting, listening and the mysteries of public engagement: An investigation of the AAA online audience. Australian Archaeology 81:1–11.
    • Moss, P., L. Mackenzie, S. Ulm, C. Sloss, D. Rosendahl, L. Petherick, L. Steinberger, L.A. Wallis, H. Heijnis, F. Petchey and G. Jacobsen 2015 Environmental context for late Holocene human occupation of the south Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia. Quaternary International 385:136–144.
    • L.A. Wallis, Davidson, I., H. Burke, S. Mitchell, B. Barker, E. Hatte, N. Cole and K. Lowe 2017 Aboriginal stone huts along the Georgina River, southwest Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 20:1–8.
    • Clarkson, C., Z. Jacobs, B. Marwick, R. Fullagar, L.A. Wallis, M. Smith, R.G. Roberts, E. Hayes, K. Lowe, X. Carah, A. Florin, J. McNeil, D. Cox, L.J. Arnold, Q. Hua, J. Huntley, H.E.A. Brand, T. Manne, A. Fairbairn, J. Shulmeister, L.Lyle, M. Salina, M. Page, K. Connell, G. Park, K. Norman, T. Murphy and C. Pardoe 2017 New evidence for the human colonisation of northern Australia about 65,000 years ago. Nature 547(7663):303–310.
    • Moss, P., S. Ulm, L. Mackenzie, L.A. Wallis, D. Rosendahl and L. Steinberger 2016 Robust local vegetation records from dense archaeological shell matrixes: a palynological analysis of the Thundiy shell deposit, Bentinck Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0394-0
    • Lowe, K.M., S.M. Mentzer, L.A. Wallis and J. Shulmeister 2016 A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: Exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in northern Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. DOI :10.1007/s12520-016-0354-8.
    • Wallis, L.A., J. Huntley, M. Marsh, A. Watchman, A. Ewen and A. Strano 2016 pXRF analysis of a yellow ochre quarry and rock art motifs in the Central Pilbara. Journal of the Anthropological Association of South Australia 40:134–155.
    • Wallis, L.A. and J. Matthews 2016 Built structures in rockshelters of the Pilbara, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 31:1–26.
    • Lowe, K.M., S.M. Mentzer, L.A. Wallis and J. Shulmeister 2016 A multi-proxy study of anthropogenic sedimentation and human occupation of Gledswood Shelter 1: exploring an interior sandstone rockshelter in northern Australia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. < DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0354-8 >
    • Lowe, K.M., J. Shulmeister, J.M. Feinberg, T. Manne, L.A. Wallis and K. Welsh 2016 Using soil magnetic properties to determine the onset of Pleistocene human settlement at Gledswood Shelter 1, northern Australia. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal.
    • Matthews, J. and L.A. Wallis 2015 Broadcasting, listening and the mysteries of public engagement: An investigation of the AAA online audience. Australian Archaeology 81:1–11.
    • Moss, P., L. Mackenzie, S. Ulm, C. Sloss, D. Rosendahl, L. Petherick, L. Steinberger, L.A. Wallis, H. Heijnis, F. Petchey and G. Jacobsen 2015 Environmental context for late Holocene human occupation of the south Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia. Quaternary International 385:136–144.

  • Conference papers

    • McBride, E., L.A. Wallis, S. Haberle and D. Werndley 2018 Amberat middens and the palaeoenvironmental record of the inland Pilbara, Western Australia. Unpublished paper presented at the Southern Deserts 5 Conference, August 2018.
    • Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, B. Barker, N. Cole, L. Bateman, U. Artym, T. Pagels, A. Madden, E. Hatte, Col McLennan and Iain Davidson 2018 The archaeology of the ‘secret war’ in colonial Queensland, 1849 to 1904. Unpublished paper presented at the Archaeology of War conference, Sydney, June 2018.
    • Burke, H., B. Barker, N. Cole, L.A. Wallis, I. Davidson and E. Hatte 2017 The Queensland Native Police and strategies of recruitment on the frontier 1849–1901. Unpublished paper presented at the AAS/ASA/ASAANZ 2017 Shifting States Conference, Adelaide, December 2017.
    • Wallis, L.A., J. Huntley, B. Stephenson and A. Davis 2017 Pigments, painting and pounding: the analysis of grinding stones, pecked hollows, rock art and pigments in the Central Pilbara, WA. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
    • McBride, E., L.A. Wallis, S. Haberle and D. Werndley 2017 Amberat middens and the palaeoenvironmental record of the inland Pilbara, Western Australia. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
    • Bateman, L., B. Barker, H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2017 Domesticity on the frontier: an investigation of daily life at a Queensland Native Police Camp. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
    • Lowe, K.M., H. Burke, L.A. Wallis, B. Barker, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2017 The archaeological signature of ‘ant bed’ mound floors in the northern tropics of Australia: a case study on the Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
    • Madden, A., K. Lowe, L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, B. Barker, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2017 Where crossroads meet: Investigating the spatio-temporal interactions of the Queensland Native Mounted Police and telegraphic communications. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Melbourne, December 2017.
    • Wallis, L.A., N. Cole, B. Barker, H. Burke, K. Lowe, I. Davidson and E. Hatte 2016 Rewriting the history of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Terrigal, December 2016.
    • Cole, N., B. Barker, L.A. Wallis, H. Burke, I. Davidson, E. Hatte and K. Lowe 2016 An archaeological study of Indigenous and cross-cultural exchanges at Boralga Native Mounted Police Camp, Cape York, Qld. Unpublished paper presented at the Colonial Formations: Connections and Collisions Conference, University of Wollongong, 25 November 2016.
    • Wallis, L.A., H. Burke, B. Barker, K. Lowe, I. Davidson, N. Cole and E. Hatte 2016 The Archaeology of the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Unpublished paper presented in the Talking Heads Seminar Series, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia, 18 October 2016.
    • Wallis, L.A. 2016 Indigenous cultural landscape interactions in the Australian desert. International Forum on Sustainable Future of Life in the Desert hosted by the Government of the State of Coahuila and the Office in Mexico of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 25–27, Saltillo, Mexico.
    • Matthews, J. and L.A. Wallis 2015 Walled structures in rockshelters of the Pilbara, Western Australia. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Fremantle.
    • Wallis, L.A., J. Huntley, A. Watchman and J. Ralph 2015 Painting the Pilbara: an overview of the painted rock art of the Hamersley Plateau. Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference, Fremantle.

  • In the media

  • Professional affiliations

    • Full Member, Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. (AACAI)
    • Life Member, Australian Archaeological Association (AACAI)
    • Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

  • Community engagement

    Lynley is a life member of AAA, having served as its President from 2009–2011. She is also the current Vice-President of AACAI, having served as the National President from 2013–2015. For nearly four years she was the Co-Editor (with Assoc. Prof. Heather Burke) of the national journal 'Australian Archaeology'.

    Lynley works closely with many Aboriginal communities around Australia, working on archaeology and cultural heritage related projects, often on a pro-bono basis. Some of these communities in recent years have included Ngarrindjeri, Banjima, Mitakoodi, Mirarr and Wanamara. Now that she is based in Broome, Lynley has also commenced working on local, Kimberley based projects, particularly with KALACC, Wiligun Aboriginal Corporation and Yawuru.

  • Awards

    • Liverpool University Press Award for Outstanding Journal Reviewer (2016)
    • Life Membership for Outstanding Contribution to the Australian Archaeological Association (2012)
    • The Eureka Archaeological Research and Consulting Prize for Excellence in Archaeological Interpretation, Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference (2009)
    • Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation "For leadership and innovation in developing an outstanding graduate training program in archaeology and cultural heritage management to produce industry ready graduates" (2009)
    • Staff Excellence Award Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (2004)
    • Best Overall Poster Australian Archaeological Association Annual Conference (2003)