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.

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Contact details

Location, delivery and postal address
Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit
Griffith University, Gold Coast campus
Parklands Drive
Southport QLD 4222