Person
Balme, Jane Margaret (c. 1957 - )
- Born
- c. 1957
- Occupation
- Archaeologist
- Website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1387-9379
Summary
Jane Balme is an archaeologist who is recognised as an expert on early Indigenous groups and Australian archaeology. She became interested in the field while working for the Western Australian Museum at the Devil's Lair cave in southwest Australia. Her research focus has mainly been on subsistence and social organisation in Pleistocene Australia, the development of gendered social organisation, and archaeology as a discipline. She has worked across Australia including in New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Balme is Emerita Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia where she had been Professor of Archaeology.
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Chronology
- 1979
- Education - BSc (hons), University of Western Australia
- 1986 - 1996
- Career position - Lecturer in Archaeology, University of New England
- 1989 - 1990
- Career position - Secretary, Australian Archaeological Association
- 1990
- Education - PhD, Australian National University
- 2018 -
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Published resources
Edited Books
- Balme, Jane and Paterson, A. Alistair eds, Archaeology in practice: a student guide to archaeological analyses (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006), 438 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Balme, Jane, '30,000 years of fishery in western New South Wales', Archaeology in Oceania, 30 (1) (1995), 1-46, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.1995.tb00324.x. Details
- Balme, Jane, 'Of boats and string: the maritime colonisation of Australia', Quaternary international, 285 (2013), 68-75, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.029. Details
- Balme, Jane, 'From 'Jane roughed it with the men' - the last 50 years', Australian archaeology, 90 (1) (2024), 6-8, https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2024.2317515. Details
- Balme, Jane and Beck, Wendy, 'Starch and charcoal: useful measures of activity areas in archaeological rock shelters', Journal of archaeological science, 29 (2) (2002), 157-66, https://doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2001.0700. Details
- Balme, Jane and O'Connor, Sue, 'Introduction to special volume: more unconsidered trifles', Australian Archaeology, 67 (2008), 1-2. Details
- Balme, Jane, Merrilees, D. and Porter, J. K., ' Late Quaternary mammal remains, spanning about 30,000 years, from excavations in Devil's Lair, Western Australia', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 61 (1978), 33-65. Details
- Frederick, Ursula K., Balme, Jane, Jamieson, J., Marshall, M, and O'Connor, Sue, 'Embedded in the bark: Kimberley boab trees as sites of historical archaeology', International journal of historical archaeology, 27 (2023), 817-40, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-022-00678-z. Details
- Koungoulos, Loukas George, Balme, Jane and O'Connor, Sue, 'Holocene subsistence change in eastern Australia: the zooarchaeology of Graman B1Rockshelter', Holocene, 35 (9) (2025), 865-82, https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251340811. Details
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Created: 31 March 2026