Jo McDonald
Cultural Heritage
Management
Now trading as:
News
May 2011: Jo delivers the 2011 Allen Lecture at the Melbourne Museum. More news..
2010: A new paper on Cumberland Plain open sites was published in Australian Archaeology. Building on work
done by the company over the last decade, this looks at artefact distributions as the choices that people have made in camping locations across a major cultural landscape on the Cumberland Plain …. Click here to download a pdf
Martu men, researchers and Project partners
This year’s fieldwork for the Canning Stock Route Project has just successfully concluded with the recording of rock art sites and dreaming stories at Jilligurru (The Durba Hills) and Kaalpi (the Calvert Ranges). More..
Martu women, researchers and Project partners (photo Luke Reyolds)
Jo McDonald and Karen Steelman collecting charcoal samples for dating
Welcome
Welcome to the new Jo McDonald Cultural Heritage Management site
Jo McDonald Cultural Heritage Management Pty Ltd provides high quality work utilising innovative approaches to the management of Indigenous cultural heritage.
Jo McDonald CHM provides the following general and specialist skills and services:
- Aboriginal archaeological site survey and recording
- Aboriginal open and shelter site excavation
- Aboriginal rock art recording
- Midden analysis
- Project and strategic management planning
- Liaison with Aboriginal communities
- Regional planning studies
- Thorough background research and documentation
- Human skeletal remains/burial excavation
- Native Title data collection and reporting
The firm has offices in Sydney and Canberra. The company specialises in rock art investigations, open site excavation and heritage management in the Sydney region, but also undertakes projects in regional NSW and other States and Territories. The company has a core team of archaeologists and an extensive network of specialists in related interdisciplinary fields. Jo McDonald has professional contacts in most states of Australia.