PhD Project
‘Indigenous Resilience in Post-Glacial Northern Australia: A faunal analysis of the Malangangerr shell midden’
This research aims to understand Aboriginal response to the dramatic post-glacial sea level rise following the Last Glacial Maximum in the north of Australia. Indigenous resilience to this broad scale landscape change will be understood through the lens of zooarchaeological analysis of vertebrate and invertebrate remains from the site of Malangangerr. Importantly, this project will produce one of the first high-resolution records of Aboriginal and faunal interactions in the western Arnhem Land region.
Qualifications
2022 Honours Class One (Archaeology), University of Queensland, University Medal for Outstanding Scholarship
Taxonomic Identification of Hawaiian Bone Fishhooks using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS)
2018-2020 Bachelor of Arts: Extended Major in Archaeology and Minor in Ancient History, University of Queensland
2014-2016 Bachelor of Science: Extended Major in Biomedical Science, University of Queensland
Publications
Cheeseman, M., Lambourne, M.L., Peters, C., Amano, N., Boivin, N & Manne, 2025. Food and identity (re)creation in migrant communities: Applying ZooMS to highly fragmented faunal remains from an historical Queensland gold mining town, Ravenswood. Journal of Archaeological Science.
Presentations
2025 Lambourne, ML., Manne, T., Clarkson, C., Crowther, A., Faulkner, P., Norman, K., Jones, T., Wesley, D., Nayinggul, A., Manilikarr Clan & Njanjma Rangers 2025. Aboriginal response to post-glacial sea level rise in the North of Australia. Association for Environmental Archaeology, Stavanger, Norway.
2022 Lambourne, M.L., Crowther, A., Peters, C., Amano, N., Boivin, N & Weisler, M 2023. Taxonomic Identification of Hawaiian Bone Fishhooks Using Collagen Fingerprinting: Documenting raw material selection and possible ritual use of terrestrial species. International Council for Archaeozoology, Cairns, Australia.