Martin Porr

Biography

Martin Porr is associate professor in archaeology and a member of the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2002. He was employed at the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte (Halle/Saale, Germany) and was museum director of the Städtische Museen Quedlinburg (Germany). Since February 2013 he has been discipline chair for archaeology at UWA. He teaches archaeology at undergraduate and honours level and supervises postgraduate research students. He has published widely on palaeolithic art and archaeology as well as general theoretical aspects of archaeological and rock art research. He is co-editor of the volume The hominid individual in context. Archaeological investigations of lower and middle palaeolithic landscapes, locales and artefacts (with C. S. Gamble; Routledge, 2005) and the volume Southern Asia, Australia and the search for human origins (with R. Dennell; Cambridge University Press, 2014). His research has so far concentrated on aspects related to the palaeolithic art of Europe and Australian rock art, which has resulted in a number of contributions to major journals, such as the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Current Anthropology, and Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory and Antiquity. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany, Thailand, Australia, India and the Philippines. During his career he has received grants from the Australian Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Arts and Humanities Research Board of the British Academy, the National Geographic Society, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)And other institutions. Since August 2015 he is based at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History at the University of Tübingen as well as at Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.

Research Interest

Archaeology