A5054592422- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Marine and environmental studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Water management and technologies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Australian National University
2015-2024
University of Haifa
2022-2024
During the Early Islamic period, several emerging agricultural innovations enabled cultivation of summer crops in unproductive Mediterranean lands. This necessitated development water harvesting methods. study delves into creation Plot-and-Berm (P&B) agroecosystem along sandy coast Caesarea, Israel. From early tenth century to mid-twelfth century, coeval later part period and beginning Crusader a 1.5 km2 P&B was constructed maintained. Remarkably, this system still dominates landscape. The...
Abstract Rice ( Oryza sativa ) was domesticated in the Yangtze Valley region at least 6000–8000 years ago, yet timing of dispersal rice to Southeast Asia is contentious. Often not well-preserved archaeobotanical assemblages early Neolithic sites wet tropics and consequently impressions pottery have been used as a proxy for cultivation despite their uncertain taxonomic domestication status. In this research, we use microCT technology determine 3D microscale morphology husk spikelet base...
Abstract The causes of the Late Pleistocene extinction most larger‐bodied animals on Australian continent have long been controversial. This is due, in no small part, to inadequate knowledge exactly when these species were lost from different ecosystems. Nombe rockshelter highlands Papua New Guinea one very few sites Sahul with as‐yet‐unrefuted evidence for survival megafaunal until more recently than 40 thousand years (ka) ago. However, our understanding age this site has based radiocarbon...
In the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures on Earth's surface, exploring ancient agricultural methods holds promise for innovative approaches, especially in traditionally considered less fertile landscapes like sandy landforms. The earliest documented instances utilization aeolian sand landforms are found form Plot-and-Berm (P&B) agroecosystems along present-day coastal plain dunefields Israel.  The close to pristine state a P&B agroecosystem hinterland...
The archaeology of Bald Rock 1, 2 and 3 at the sandstone outcrop Maliwawa has established ∼25,000 years Indigenous occupation in Wellington Range, northwestern Arnhem Land. Flaked stone artefacts were found from beginning sequence, with ground-edge axes, pounding grinding technology ochre recovered deposits dating Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to recent contact period. was occupied during LGM other major regional environmental changes arising post-glacial sea level rise stabilisation along...
Research on prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia is dominated by mortuary contexts, leaving processes such as the transition to sedentism relatively understudied. Recent excavations in southern Vietnam, however, have recovered new evidence for settlement. The authors report investigations at neolithic site of Loc Giang (3980–3270 cal BP) where excavation revealed a vertical sequence more than 30 surfaces. Microarchaeological analyses indicate that these features are carefully prepared lime...
Abstract The investigation of submerged archaeological sites faces numerous logistical challenges in the recovery stratigraphic sequences and, as a result, is often restricted to surface deposits limiting application geoarchaeology. This paper outlines new integrated field and microanalytical methodological protocol investigate deep (up 2 m) within Pre‐Pottery Neolithic (PPN) site Atlit‐Yam (9267–7970 cal. B.P. [calibrated years before present]). A coring method for extraction underwater...
In southeastern Australia, GunaiKurnai caves are known by current Aboriginal Elders and from nineteenth century ethnographic documents as special places used mulla-mullung (“clever men” “clever women”) for the practice of magic medicine. Pollen analysis conducted on sediments one such cave, Cloggs Cave, reveals an unusually well-preserved well-stratified pollen sequence extending back >25,000 years, with much introduced into cave people carrying flowering plants. High concentrations...
Based on surveys and three excavation seasons, we report details one of the first major utilizations loose aeolian sand for construction (hypothesized) vegetable agriculture at Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm (P&B) agroecosystem south Caesarea Maritima, along Mediterranean coast Israel. P&B agroecosystems are an innovative initiative to reconstruct bodies dunefields into agricultural plots sunken between berms. These sporadically found Iran Iberia some still in use. The plots, usually ~1...
Archaeological investigations at the site of Đầu Rằm in northern Vietnam have produced evidence for production nephrite/jade rings during first half 2nd millennium BC. Reconstruction manufacturing process indicates that artisans utilised techniques ring-making enabled several from a single nephrite blank. We argue was one settlements belonging to Tràng Kênh culture specialised manufacture jewellery. These were integrated into complex trade and exchange network had emerged within by 4000 years ago.