A5059712406- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Marine animal studies overview
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- African history and culture analysis
Monash University
2016-2025
Australian Research Council
2018-2024
National Museum of Natural History
2022-2023
Smithsonian Institution
2022-2023
ACT Government
2021
Museums Victoria
2018-2020
Abstract In societies without writing, ethnographically known rituals have rarely been tracked back archaeologically more than a few hundred years. At the invitation of GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Elders, we undertook archaeological excavations at Cloggs Cave in foothills Australian Alps. Country, caves were not used as residential places during early colonial period (mid-nineteenth century CE), but secluded retreats for performance by medicine men and women ‘mulla-mullung’, documented...
In this paper we report on new research at the iconic archaeological site of Cloggs Cave (GunaiKurnai Country), in southern foothills SE Australia's Great Dividing Range. Detailed chronometric dating, combined with high-resolution 3D mapping, geomorphological studies and excavations, now allow a dense sequence Late Holocene ash layers their contents to be correlated GunaiKurnai ethnography current knowledge. These results suggest critical re-interpretation what Old People were, were not,...
The Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, is a rapidly changing geomorphic and cultural landscape in which the ancestral past constantly being (re)interpreted negotiated. This paper examines importance subsurface archaeological geomorphological features for various communities Orokolo Bay as they maintain re-construct cosmological migration narratives. everyday practices digging clearing agriculture house construction at antecedent village locations bring locals into regular engagement with...
The exchange of specialized items and the social connections those exchanges engender play a fundamental role in trajectories societal relations. Processual archaeologists developed core–periphery model to understand how these relations work. evoked complex "cores" "peripheries" at edges where with other cultures take place. rigidity modeling led emergence more nuanced network analyses explain qualitative as well quantitative dimensions cultural exchange. Yet contemporary models still focus...
Insects form an important source of food for many people around the world, but little is known deep-time history insect harvesting from archaeological record. In Australia, early settler writings 1830s to mid-1800s reported congregations Aboriginal groups multiple clans and language taking advantage annual migration Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) in near Australian Alps, continent's highest mountain range. The were targeted as a item their large numbers high fat contents. Within 30 years...
ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia c.1750 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in Aboriginal languages suggest a long complex history of foreign voyaging Australia. Yet archaeological radiocarbon chronologies for the Asian industry earlier encounters are few dates have never been comprehensively reviewed. Only one Arnhem Land fishery site has dated extensively,...
Abstract Archaeologists often wonder how and when rock shelters formed, yet their origins antiquity are almost never systematically investigated. Here we present a new method to determine individual boulders came lie in landscape settings. We do so through 3D laser (LiDAR) mapping, illustrating the by example of Borologa Aboriginal site complex Kimberley region northwestern Australia. Through combination geomorphological study high‐resolution modelling, blocks refitted repositioned t680their...
Cultural research at Orokolo Bay (PNG) has long focussed on elaborate social-ceremonial practice and maritime exchange (hiri). Previously the chronology of settlement was based a single radiocarbon determination 410 ± 80 BP from Popo village. Today, is an important village site along ancestral migration route for clan groups living up to 125 km east. This paper presents archaeological results recent excavation Popo, undertaken near location Rhoads’ earlier investigations in 1976. A...
In their book on global social archaeologies, Koji Mizoguchi and Claire Smith set out to describe promote archaeologies aligned with human rights justice. The authors aim provide ...
Seafaring ceramicists connected widely spaced communities along the expanse of PNG's south coast for more than 1,500 years following arrival people using pots with Lapita decoration c.2,900 cal BP. Archaeological investigations at locations from Gulf Papua in west to Mailu Island east suggest a major change occurred seafaring and social relations after 1,200 The five centuries often referred as 'Ceramic Hiccup' were characterised by contraction scale formerly long-distance voyaging. Here we...
Dugong hunting by Torres Strait Islanders has a long history dating back at least 4000 years. Dugongs are highly susceptible to over-predation, due slow development and low fecundity/reproductive rates. While attempts model catch sustainability using recent survey data have caused conservation concern, lack of historical prevents reliable statements on the past dugong practices. In absence data, archaeological in form bones provide unique valuable archive examine long-term terms changes prey...
Ethnographic records show that people from Orokolo Bay in the Papuan Gulf (Papua New Guinea) made, used, and exchanged artefacts made bone teeth during twentieth century. Archaeologically, these kinds of are poorly documented, partly because osseous materials tend to decay rapidly exposed tropical rainforest sites. Where have been found Gulf, only a few reported detail. Here we contribute detailed analyses eight past village site Popo which date within period 770–220 cal BP. We describe...
ABSTRACT When European colonists arrived in the late 19th century, large villages dotted coastline of Gulf Papua (southern New Guinea). These central places sustained long-distance exchange and decade-spanning ceremonial cycles. Besides ethnohistoric records, little is known villages’ antiquity, spatiality, or development. Here we combine oral traditional 14 C chronological evidence to investigate spatial history two ancestral village sites Orokolo Bay: Popo Mirimua Mapoe. A Bayesian model...