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Jo Thomson
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Jo
Thomson
Contact Details
0439 518 928
PO Box 224
Floreat
6014
WA
Australia
Professional Details
Big Island Research Pty Ltd
Doctor of Philosophy (UWA) 2023Master of Applied Cultural Heritage Studies (Curtin) 2013Postgraduate Certificate in Cultural Heritage Studies (JCU) 2003Bachelor of Arts (Hons I) in Prehistoric and historic archaeology (USyd) 1998Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training (Karratha College of TAFE) 2005Certificate IV in Business (Frontline Management) (Modal) 2005
Full member, Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists IncorporatednFull international member, ICOMOSnMember, Australian Archaeological Association nMember, World Archaeological Congress
Jo has dual expertise in archaeology and cultural heritage management. She has over 25 years experience and has worked in the Pilbara, South West, Wheat Belt, Central West, Gascoyne, Goldfields and greater Perth metropolitan regions of Western Australia and regional NSW.

In addition to archaeological survey, site recording, excavation and site management, Jo has extensive experience in field logistics in remote areas, Indigenous community liaison and consultation, project management, design and delivery of training to employees and the Indigenous community, CHMS development and implementation, GIS and audits and reviews (field and system), within a wide range of development contexts from conceptual studies through to feasibility, operations and planning for mine closure, large scale infrastructure developments, exploration and evaluation drilling, urban residential and pastoral activities.
Thomson, J.R. & J. Dortch, 2023. ‘A missed opportunity for a paradigm shift: The rescinded Western Australian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021’, Historic Environment, 34(1-3): 15-36. Dortch, J., Poelina, A., Thomson, J. & K. Muir, 2021. ‘A history of destruction: Why the WA Cultural Heritage Bill will not prevent another Juukan Gorge-like disaster’, The Conversation. Veth, P., Dortch, J. & J. Thomson, 2020. ‘Embracing the values of Aboriginal heritage in reforms to the WA Act’, National Indigenous Times, 2 April 2020. Thomson, J. R. & J. P. White, 2000. 'Localism of Lapita pottery in the Bismarck Archipelago', Australian Archaeologist: Collected papers in honour of Jim Allen, A. Anderson & T. Murray (Eds), Coombs Academic Publishing, ANU, pp308323.
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