the Mirrar people, a clan of the Bininj people. Here he tried to describe a chronological sequence of styles to the art within this style, describing four phases of the style. Although the classification proved problematical and continues to be debated, it was a significant piece of work in that it identified important attributes of the style, and provided a basis for similar studies in the future. Paul Taçon refers to them in the study led by him on the Maliwawa Figures, published in 2020. Recognition and honours Churchill Fellowship, 1983 Visiting fellow at the Department of Prehistory in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University Inaugural President of the Australian Rock Art Research Association, presiding over the First AURA Congress, 1988 Order of Australia, 1990 Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1997 Death and legacy Chaloupka died in the Royal Darwin Hospital. A state funeral was held on 4 November 2011, with an Aboriginal smoking ceremony held as part of the funeral. In 2008 the George Chaloupka Fellowship was established "to promote and support research and conservation of Aboriginal rock art located in Arnhem Land Plateau region in the Northern Territory of Australia". Selected works Burrunguy: Nourlangie rock. Northart, 1982 The Rock art sites of Kakadu National Park : some preliminary research findings for their conservation and management, Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra. (with Dan Gillespie & Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service) 1983 From palaeoart to casual paintings: the chronological sequence of Arnhem Land Plateau rock art, Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin. (with Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences) 1984 Chronological sequence of Arnhem Land Plateau rock art. In: Jones, R. Archaeological research in Kakadu National Park. Canberra : Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, 269-80. 1985 Report on acquital [sic] of 1986 grants, Rock Art Protection Programme, Darwin , 1987 'Rock art of the Northern Territory' The Inspired Dream: Life as Art in Aboriginal Australia, no. 1988, pp. 12–19,110. 1988 Retouch events. In: Retouch: maintenance and conservation of Aboriginal rock imagery / edited by Graeme K. Ward. Melbourne : Archaeological Publications , 1992; p. 12–16. 1992 References Further reading 1932 births 2011 deaths Australian art historians Australian anthropologists Czechoslovak emigrants to Australia Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal People from Rychnov nad Kněžnou District