Jillian Garvey ABNA - Biobanking: Shaping the Future Together

Jillian Garvey

I am an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in Archaeology at La Trobe University, specialising in late Quaternary Australian Indigenous archaeology. I have a particular research focus on zooarchaeology, with formal qualifications in both Archaeology and Zoology. I have been involved in a variety of research projects in Australia including working on late Quaternary faunal assemblages from: southwest Tasmania; Lake Mungo, NSW; Cuddie Springs, NSW; and from the Murray River in northwestern Victoria. I have also worked on faunal assemblages from China. I have integrated my zoological background into my research by conducting experiments on modern Australian animals including: economic utility; fatty acid nutritional analyses; butchery; and cooking experiments. With a PhD in palaeontology, I am also interested in studying natural faunal assemblages and what this can infer about past palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology. In particular I am interested in the causes behind the extinction of Australia's megafauna during the late Pleistocene.