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Associate Professor Lynley A. Wallis is an Australian archaeologist and a prominent researcher in the discipline of Australian archaeology. She is a specialist in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through the analysis of phytolith s but her contribution to Australian archaeology is broader reaching. Wallis is an influential advocate of community-led archaeological research in Australia and has a commitment to the development of students and graduate archaeologists.

Education
Wallis obtained her Bachelor of Science at the University of Western Australia with 1st class honours in 1994 and her PhD from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2001. Her PhD thesis titled Phytoliths, Late Quaternary Environment and Archaeology in Tropical Semi-arid Northwest Australia demonstrated the suitability of phytolith analysis to questions of palaeoenvironmental interest in the tropical semi-arid areas and, subsequently, produced the first detailed late Quaternary terrestrial vegetation record for northwest Australia, which innovated the use of non-traditional coring sites, opening up new avenues for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Career
Since the completion of her doctoral studies, Associate Professor Wallis has had a diverse career in private and public sector cultural heritage management, lecturing and research across Indigenous and historical archaeology.

She was employed as a lecturer in the School of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology at James Cook University (2001–2002) and then for five years at Flinders University (2005–2009) where she, with colleague Professor Heather Burke, designed and initiated the Flinders post-graduate archaeological program—a unique program designed to produce industry ready graduates. From 2009–2011, Associate Professor Wallis served as a senior research fellow at the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Queensland , where she undertook a major research project investigating phytolith production in northern Australian plants. From 2016–2020 Wallis was a senior research fellow with Nulungu Research Institute at University of Notre Dame but in 2020 took up a research position at Griffith University in Brisbane.

Between the aforementioned positions in the academy, Wallis worked as the senior conservation officer for the Heritage Unit, Environment ACT (2002–2004) before being appointed as a senior research officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (2004–2005). With her extensive experience in cultural heritage management in Australia, she started her own consulting company Wallis Heritage Consulting in 2011. This niche company specialises in delivering comprehensive services in cultural heritage management and Indigenous liaison for a range of government and private sector clients.

Wallis has been an advisory editorial board member of a number of peer-review journals including the Nulungu Publications series, Archaeology in Oceania, Australian Archaeology (journal) and Queensland Archaeological Research. She has been the national president of the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) (2009–2011), the president of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists (AACAI) from 2013–2015, the Vice-President of AACAI from 2015–2017 and the Membership Secretary of AACAI from 2017–2019.

From January 2012 until June 2016 Associate Professor Wallis also served as the Co-Editor (with Professor Heather Burke) of AAA’s flagship journal Australian Archaeology.

Research
Wallis’ research interests focus around human-environment relationships through the late Quaternary period, coastal and island archaeology, phytolith analysis, and ethnobotany. She specialises in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through the analysis of phytoliths and remote area fieldwork, but maintains broad interests in community-based Indigenous archaeology.

Wallis has been involved in and coordinated research projects across most of Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA), Northern Territory (NT), Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Queensland (QLD). She also has international experience working in Thailand, Vietnam and Chile. Wallis has a longstanding interest in Aboriginal cultural heritage and a commitment to undertaking collaborative research partnerships with communities. In 2019, she was the project manager on the award-nominated, community-based project titled The Djenj Project: Bininj Fishing Past, Present and Future, designed to promote two-way knowledge sharing and learning about fish and fishing in West Arnhem Land. She has also undertaken major research projects with Aboriginal communities across QLD, WA , SA and the NT.

She has been involved in a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants across her career; most recently The Archaeology of the Queensland Native Mounted Police: Aborigines and Europeans on The Queensland Frontier , which focused on documenting and analysing frontier conflict and, particularly, the Native Mounted Police in Queensland. Previous ARC Discovery projects she has been involved in have included Naïve island landscapes: People and environmental change in tropical sclerophyll landscapes (led by Professor Sean Ulm), and Modern human origins and early behavioral complexity in Australia and South East Asia (led By Professor Chris Clarkson), which included the excavation of the 65,000yo site of Madjedbebe in West Arnhem Land.

Wallis is the Chief Investigator on the 2019 announced ARC Linkage Project Aboriginal rock art and cultural heritage management in Cape York Peninsula, which will systematically map and analyse cultural heritage sites and rock art of the largely unexplored Laura Sandstone Basin of the Cape York Peninsula. This unprecedented research was made possible through Wallis and fellow investigators’ “strong, long-term and highly positive working relationships with existing Indigenous groups” and has been described as a project that will generate “data of national scientific and social significance”.

During her career, Wallis has been awarded more than 40 research grants and has amassed a substantive list of published works in both national and international journals, as well as numerous unpublished consulting and community reports.

Awards and Honours
In 2004, Wallis was awarded a staff excellence award from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies where she was employed as a senior research officer. In 2009, Wallis was recognised for her contribution to student development and producing industry ready graduates at Flinders University, with the prestigious Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation. This award was presented for leadership and innovation in developing an outstanding graduate training program in archaeology and cultural heritage management.

In 2012, Wallis was awarded life membership for her outstanding contribution to the Australian Archaeological Association, where, as president, she re-invigorated the association, leading to its highest membership numbers ever, formalised the system for industry sponsorship of the conference and was a strong advocate for a more inclusive archaeological discipline in Australia.

Papers

 * Florin, S.A., A.S. Fairbairn, M. Nango, J. Djandjomerr, B. Marwick, R. Fullagar, M. Smith, L.A. Wallis and C. Clarkson 2020 The first Australian ‘bush foods’ at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago. Nature Communications 11(924).
 * Davidson, I., H. Burke, L. Sullivan, L.A. Wallis, U. Artym and B. Barker 2020 Cultural conflict in text and materiality: the impact of words and lead on the northwest Queensland colonial frontier. World Archaeology. DIO: doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1711153
 * 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
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Clarkson, C., M. Smith, B. Marwick, R. Fullagar, L.A. Wallis, P. Faulkner, T. Manne, Z. Jacobs, E. Hayes, X. Carah, K. Lowe, R.G. Roberts, J. Matthews and S.A. Florin 2015 The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation. Journal of Human Evolution 83:46–64.
 * Lowe, K.M., L.A Wallis, C. Pardoe, B. Marwick, C. Clarkson, T. Manne, M. Smith and R. Fullagar 2014 Ground-penetrating radar and burial practices in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 48(3):148–157.
 * Rosendahl, D., K.M. Lowe, L.A. Wallis and S. Ulm 2014 Integrating geoarchaeology and magnetic susceptibility at three shell mounds: a pilot study from Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 49:21–32.
 * Gamage, H., S. Mondal, L.A. Wallis, P. Memmott, D. Martin, B. Wright and S Schmidt 2012 Indigenous and modern biomaterials derived from Triodia (spinifex) grasslands in Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 60(2):114–127.
 * Pitman, H.T. and L.A. Wallis 2012 The point of spinifex: A review of Aboriginal uses of spinifex grasses in Australia. Ethnobotanical Research and Applications 10:109–131.
 * Disspain, M., L.A. Wallis and B. Gillanders 2011 Developing baseline data to understand environmental change: a geochemical pilot study of archaeological otoliths from the Coorong, South Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 38:1842–1857.
 * Sim, R. and L.A. Wallis 2008 Northern Australian offshore island use during the Holocene: the archaeology of Vanderlin Island, Sir Edward Pellew Group, Gulf of Carpentaria. Australian Archaeology 67:95–106.
 * Wallis, L.A. 2001 Environmental history of northwest Australia based on phytolith analysis at Carpenter’s Gap 1. Quaternary International 83–85:103–117.
 * Veth, P., S. O’Connor and L.A. Wallis 2000 Perspectives on ecological approaches in Australian archaeology. Australian Archaeology 50:54–66.

Books

 * Connelly, P. and L.A. Wallis 2013 Kar-kar: Mitakoodi Traditional Medicinal Plant Uses of the Cloncurry Region. Mount Isa: Southern Gulf Catchments Ltd.
 * Veth, P., K. Aplin, L. Wallis, T. Manne, T. Pulsford, E. White and A. Chappell 2007 The Archaeology of Montebello Islands, North-West Australia: Late Quaternary Foragers on an Arid Coastline. BAR International Series 1668.
 * Taylor, L., G.K. Ward, G. Henderson, R. Davis and L.A. Wallis (eds) 2005 The Power of Knowledge: The Resonance of Tradition. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra.

Book Chapters

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Hiscock, P. and L.A. Wallis 2005 Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective. In P. Veth, M. Smith and P. Hiscock (eds), Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives, pp.34–57. Malden: Blackwell Publishers.
 * Smith, M., P. Veth, P. Hiscock and L.A. Wallis 2005 Introduction: Global deserts in perspective. In P. Veth, M. Smith and P. Hiscock (eds), Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives, pp.1–13. Malden: Blackwell Publishers.
 * Bowdery, D.B., D. Hart, C. Lentfer and L.A. Wallis 2001 A universal phytolith key. In J.D. Meunier and F. Colin (eds), Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Science and Human History, pp.267–278. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema Publishers.

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