West and Central Asia: Early Homo Fossil Records
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Walsh, Grahame Leslie Maria Myers1 and Cecilia Myers2 1 Melbourne, VIC, Australia 2 Theda Station, WA, Australia
Biographical Information Grahame Leslie Walsh was born on the 20th of September 1944 in Roma, Queensland, Australia, and he died on the 18th of August 2007, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Walsh’s early years were spent on a Queensland sheep and cattle station where at 13 he was introduced to rock art, an interest he pursued for the rest of his life. After 4 years of high school, he worked as an assistant to a newspaper photographer where he began to develop his photographic skills. In 1977 he became an Aboriginal Site Recorder and later Historic Sites Officer with the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service (QNPWS). In this role Walsh undertook systematic recording of cultural heritage sites across Queensland using his own detailed recording system. In the same year, he began annual visits to the Kimberley area of Western Australia and the Victoria River Downs area in the Northern Territory studying, comparing, and recording the rock art of these two regions. Walsh established the Takarakka Rock Art Research Centre at Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland in 1984 and began to collate and organize
his collection. Supported by the Australian Bicentennial Authority’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, he produced a book on Australia’s rock art for the 1988 Bicentenary. In 1989 he took a position as a cultural consultant (specializing in rock art) with the Dreamtime Cultural Centre in Rockhampton, run by Traditional Owners. From thereon Walsh became a full-time independent rock art researcher, and his annual field trip to the Kimberley was extended to 3–4 months. Between then and his death he focused increasingly on Kimberley rock art, publishing and presenting at numerous conferences, workshops, and private lectures in Australia, Europe, and the USA. He initiated multi-disciplinary rock art research projects and amassed a huge database of sites and associated information. He attracted private funding and a large number of committed volunteers because of his dedication, his mastery of his subject, and his ability to engage others in the possibilities of rock art research, to explain the past. He was awarded a D.Litt. from the University of Melbourne in 2004. The citation in part read “His contribution to the field of rock art research, management and conservation has been immense, and of international as well as national significance.” He was awarded a Ph.D. from Griffith University in 2007 for his Development of Australian Rock Art Recording Methodologies for the Recording and Interpretation of Cultural and Environmental Histories.
C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2, # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
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Walsh, Grahame Leslie, Fig. 1 Examples of headdress detail, body decoration, and body style identified within the Kimberley rock art sequence (After Walsh 2000: 95)
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