About Us
About Our Company
Turnstone Archaeology is a Queensland consultancy providing archaeological and heritage services for large and small projects. We are committed to best practice heritage processes, working towards a mutual outcome for all stakeholders.
Turnstone has earned a reputation for delivering quality cultural heritage services to Aboriginal communities, government departments, mining companies and private developers.
Turnstone works across Queensland undertaking heritage management programs.
These include site surveys and assessments, Duty of Care compliance, mitigation strategies and excavations and reporting. Additionally we can provide heritage workshops that include training and upskilling.
We provide ethical and reliable assessments of cultural heritage and practical mitigation strategies while working closely with Aboriginal communities and proponents to ultimately achieve best practice successful outcomes.
Turnstone advocates professional and personal development and strives to provide its archaeologists with industry experience and training with Aboriginal communities.
Our Team
Our Associates
Professor Mark W. Moore is an ARC Future Fellow at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales. He is the Director of the Museum of Stone Tools and is a leading international authority on how stone tools are made. Mark is an expert flintknapper and he uses those skills to ‘reverse engineer’ the stone artefacts we find in the field to reconstruct the recipe of techniques and methods that were used to make them. He has worked on assemblages from across the world and, in Australia, he has particular expertise on stone tool manufacture in New South Wales, Queensland, and the Kimberley region of Western Australia. His research also explores how stone tool manufacture reflects brain evolution in our remote ancestors and cousin species like the ‘Hobbit’ (Homo floresiensis). Mark provides Turnstone Archaeology with valuable expertise in stone artefact analysis and interpretation.
Donna MacGregor is a forensic anthropologist and Lecturer in Forensics and Archaeology at Griffith University. She is one of the most highly trained experts in her field in Queensland, working on local cases for the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships (DATSIP) and the Queensland Police, as well as overseas for the Australian Army. Donna undertakes forensic identification of bone material for Turnstone Archaeology and the Aboriginal communities with whom we work.
Professor Paul Tacon FAHA FSA is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2016-2021), Chair in Rock Art Research and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He also directs Griffith University’s Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU) and leads research themes in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and Griffith’s Research Centre of Human Evolution. Paul co-edited The Archaeology of Rock-art with Dr Christopher Chippendale and has published over 275 academic and popular papers on rock art, material culture, colour, cultural evolution and identity. Paul provides expert advice and information on rock art for Aboriginal communities in association with Turnstone Archaeology.