DrJacob Bongers

Tom Austen Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Tom Austen Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Employing multidisciplinary methodolgies built around community collaboration, digital archaeology, and archaeological science to advance understandings of the human past.
  • How Indigenous communities modify landscapes to facilitate interaction and respond to political and environmental change.
  • Leveraging isotopic analyses and geospatial technology to advance understandings of land-use strategies and how societies cooperated and adapted to diverse environments through time in Peru and Australia.
  • Mortuary practices in southern Peru in response to successive waves of Inca and European rule.
  • Advancement of community-engaged digital archaeology that integrates locally and scientifically informed perspectives of the human past.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Digital Archaeology and Ancient Human Occupation in the Australian Desert
    Australian Museum1 Jan 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bongers J