Jillian Garvey

Jillian Maree Garvey is an Australian archaeologist and researcher specialising in late Quaternary Australian Indigenous Archaeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne (Bundoora), Australia. She is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (ARC DECRA) Fellow in Archaeology. Her research interests include Australian Aboriginal Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, Late Pleistocene and Holocene Palaeoecology and Zooarchaeology
Garvey is a Registered Cultural Heritage Advisor (CHA) with the Office of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria (OAAV) and a current member of the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA); International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ); Australasian Quaternary Association (AQUA) and The Royal Society of Victoria (RSV). The focus of her thesis was in identifying the fossilized history of a late Holocene assemblage of small mammals in Tasmania. This project involved studying the dietary selectivity of predators and "included the role in which Strigiformes (owls) play in the accumulation of small animals in these faunal assemblages". "Experimental feeding trials of the three owl taxa known to currently inhabit Tasmania" were conducted as part of the research in the investigation of regurgitated owl-pellets in determining the source of small animal bones. In 2005, she investigated "the vertebrate taphonomy, palaeoecology and the depositional environment of an Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) fossil fish locality, Fish Hill, in the Home Station Member of the Snowy Plains Formation, Mansfield Basin, Australia. This project combined research on the vertebrate fish assemblage, micro vertebrates, ichnology, taphonomy and geology of the locality to develop an overall understanding of the palaeoecology and palaeocommunity". This PhD research contributed to improving knowledge on new fish species from the Early Carboniferous in the Mansfield Basin locality.
Career
Garvey has published on Indigenous Australian Archaeology with an extensive list of academic publications Lake Mungo in New South Wales (NSW), Cuddie Springs in New South Wales (NSW), and Murray River in north-west Victoria. Her contributions have included numerous book publications as an editor, reviewer and author and has over 30 published Conference papers nationally and internationally including Society of American Archaeology, International Conference for Zooarchaeology, Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Australian Archaeological Association Conference and Conference on Australian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS). Bones from megafauna and stone tool artefacts from human inhabitants have been found at these sites in association with each other. The cause of Indigenous Australian megafauna loss has been attributed to human-driven extinction (HDE) by numerous researchers, however, Garvey and her colleagues in dating faunal assemblages estimated 69% of total faunal species extinctions lie outside the known time for human colonization. To obtain a greater understanding of Indigenous Australian aboriginal hunting and butchery practices, collection of evidence from the ethnographic record and modern animal anatomical experiments are conducted including fatty acid analyses involving Bennett's Wallaby, as an analogue to ancient fauna. has also been undertaken by Garvey.
During November 2016, Garvey and colleagues were involved in an archaeological dig at the Lancefield megafauna excavation site in central Victoria, Australia where the discovery of teeth from the extinct giant marsupial Diprotodon, a rhinoceros-sized wombat, had been unearthed from the ancient swamplands, together with remains of Macropus Titan, an extinct giant kangaroo, and aboriginal artefacts. The findings from the excavation site may hold important information on the extinction of megafauna in the region.
Awards and grants
Garvey had been awarded the ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship Mentoring Scheme (2016)
Garvey has been awarded over $875,000<ref name "Grants dataset"/> in Research funding for project work between 2004 and 2016.<ref name"Staff profile" /> Grants and Awards have been presented to Dr Garvey from the Australian Research Council (ARC),<ref name"Grants dataset"/> Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE), Kimberley Foundation, La Trobe University (LTU) Research Transforming Human Societies and International Council for Archaeozoology and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).<ref name"Staff profile" />

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