Dr Josephine McDonald is an Australian archaeologist and Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia.
[2] Her PhD research, titled Dreamtime Superhighway: An analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange, supervised by Andree Rosenfeld, Isobel McBryde, and Anthony Forge was completed in 1994 and a revised and expanded version was published by Terra Australis in 2008.
[3] Her doctorate research also helped to create an understanding of radiocarbon direct-dating on pigment rock art, an innovation in Australian archaeology.
[8] During her time as a consultant, McDonald was involved in The Canning Stock Route: Rock Art and Jukurrpa Project, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project focused on documenting the cultural heritage along the Canning Stock Route in collaboration with local Aboriginal communities.
[11] Together with Peter Veth, McDonald has undertaken research into the relationship between rock art and social networks in Pilbara and the Western Desert in 2013.