Kane Ditchfield

Dr.

Kane

Ditchfield

Full member

Yes

Membership Secretary Membership Committee

0428225968

2/779 Canning Highway

Applecross

Perth

6153

WA

Australia

Big Island Research

BA (Hons), MA, Ph.D.

All states

-Principal Archaeologist and Director: Big Island Research -Research Fellow: The University of Western Australia -Full Member: AACAI -Member: Australian Archaeology Association -Member: Computer Applications in Archaeology, Australia Chapter

Kane has over 10 years of experience working in heritage consulting and research throughout Western Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2018 and is a specialist in stone artefact analysis, field methods, and chronological analyses as well as coastal and Pilbara archaeology. Kane is currently a principal archaeologist and director at Big Island Research. He has extensive consulting experience across north-western Australia, working with a variety of different groups on survey, excavation, and salvage projects with communities. Kane particularly enjoys spending time on country with Traditional Owners, continuing to learn and contribute towards cultural heritage management. Kane also has a part-time research position at UWA and continues to undertake research throughout north-western Australia with Traditional Owner communities. His research has been published in international and national journals including Australian Archaeology, Archaeology in Oceania, and Journal of Archaeological Science. Kane is a member of the Australian Archaeological Association (AAA) and a Full Member of the Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Incorporated (AACAI).

-Veth, P., Ditchfield, K., Hook, F., 2014. Maritime deserts of the Australian northwest. Australian Archaeology 79, 156 – 166. -Ditchfield, K., 2016. An experimental approach to distinguishing different stone artefact transport patterns from debitage assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 65, 44 – 56. -Ditchfield, K., 2016. The influence of raw material size on stone artefact assemblage formation: An example from Bone Cave, South-Western Tasmania. Quaternary International 422, 29 – 43. -Veth, P., Ward, I., Ditchfield, K., 2017. Reconceptualising Last Glacial Maximum discontinuities: A case study from the maritime deserts of north-western Australia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 46, 82 – 91. -Veth, P., Ward, I., Manne, T., Ulm, S., Ditchfield, K., Dortch, J., Hook, F., Petchey, F., Hogg, A., Questiaux, D., Demuro, M., Arnold, L., Spooner, N., Levchenko, V., Skippington, J., Byrne, C., Basgall, M., Zeanah, D., Belton, D., Helmholz, P., Bajkan, S., Bailey, R., Placzek, C., Kendrick, P., 2017. Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 168, 19 – 29. -Ditchfield, K., Manne, T., Hook, F., Ward, I., Veth, P., 2018. Coastal Occupation before the ‘Big Swamp’: Results from Excavations at John Wayne Country Rockshelter on Barrow Island. Archaeology in Oceania 53, 163–178. -Ditchfield, K., Reynen, W., Rankenburg, K., George, A.D., Evans, N.J., McDonald, B.J., 2021. The pilot application of geochemical sourcing to an inland Pilbara archaeological landscape in north-western Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38, 103104. -Ditchfield, K., Reynen, W., 2022. Extracting New Information from Old Stones: An Analysis of Three Quarries in the Semi-Arid Pilbara Region, Northwest Australia. Australian Archaeology 88, 282 – 298. -Ditchfield, K., Ulm, S., Manne, T., Farr, H., O’Grady, D., Veth, P., 2022. Framing Australian Pleistocene coastal occupation and archaeology. Quaternary Science Reviews 292, 107706. -Ditchfield, K., Huntley, J., Ward, I., Webb, J., Doelman, T., Kurpiel, R., 2023. Sourcing stone and ochre artefacts: a review of why it matters in Australia (and beyond). In C. A. Speer, G. Barrientos and R. Parish (eds), Sourcing Archeological Lithic Assemblages: New Perspectives and Integrated Approaches, pp. 52 - 67. University of Utah Press, Utah.

Excavation Site Recording Site Survey

Lithic Analysis; Bayesian Analysis