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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Archaeology | Archaeological Science | Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant | Quaternary Environments | Archaeology of Australia (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) | Archaeology Of Agricultural And Pastoral Societies | Archaeology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies (Incl. Pleistocene | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology) | Geology | Geochemistry | Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Archaeology Of Complex Societies: Europe, The Mediterranean And | Geochronology And Isotope Geochemistry | Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand) | Archaeological Science | Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology | Isotope Geochemistry | Other Stratigraphy (Incl. Sequence Stratigraphy) |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Collections and Movable Cultural Heritage | Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) | Conserving the Historic Environment | Understanding Asia's Past | Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Studies in human society | Mineral Exploration not elsewhere classified | Climate change | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales
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Publications
Procedures for measuring women's influence: Data translation and manipulation and related problems
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.11141/IA.24.6
Wild plant seed storage at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-08-2006
A Holocene sequence from Walufeni Cave, Southern Highlands Province, and its implications for the settlement of the Great Papuan Plateau, Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Juniper smoke, skulls and wolves’ tails. The Epipalaeolithic of the Anatolian plateau in its South-west Asian context; insights from Pınarbaşı
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2013
The first Australian plant foods at Madjedbebe, 65,000–53,000 years ago
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-02-2020
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-020-14723-0
Abstract: There is little evidence for the role of plant foods in the dispersal of early modern humans into new habitats globally. Researchers have hypothesised that early movements of human populations through Island Southeast Asia and into Sahul were driven by the lure of high-calorie, low-handling-cost foods, and that the use of plant foods requiring processing was not common in Sahul until the Holocene. Here we present the analysis of charred plant food remains from Madjedbebe rockshelter in northern Australia, dated to between 65 kya and 53 kya. We demonstrate that Australia’s earliest known human population exploited a range of plant foods, including those requiring processing. Our finds predate existing evidence for such subsistence practices in Sahul by at least 23ky. These results suggest that dietary breadth underpinned the success of early modern human populations in this region, with the expenditure of labour on the processing of plants guaranteeing reliable access to nutrients in new environments.
Archaeological identification and significance ofÉSAG(agricultural storage pits) at Kaman-Kalehöyük, central Anatolia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2005
DOI: 10.1017/S0066154600000636
Abstract: Evidence for the presence of storage pits described in Hittite texts by the Sumerogram ÉSAG is presented from Kaman-Kalehöyük, a multi-period tell site in central Turkey occupied during the second and first millennia BC. Small earthen pits matching the description of ÉSAG were part of the normal suite of domestic installations at the site throughout the period. Similar to pits seen across western Eurasia, they were probably used to store seed corn or seed for trade. Large earthen pits ( m in diameter) were also present that matched the description of the ÉSAG form, and in some cases contained archaeological cereal remains. Evidence from Kaman shows ÉSAG were part of Anatolian life for at least 4,000 years and suggests that the term was generic for lined, earthen storage pits. The presence of so many small pits at Kaman-Kalehöyük showed that it was an agricultural production site for much of its existence. The appearance of the large pits, confined to the Hittite period, reflects centralised control of grain supply, probably by the Hittite Kingdom, and fits a pattern seen at other sites in the region during the second millennium BC.
Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 10-2010
Abstract: Isolated by water, Australia and New Guinea were some of the last major parts of the world colonized by modern humans. Summerhayes et al. (p. 78 see the Perspective by Gosden ) describe an archaeological site in the highlands of New Guinea that sheds light on this migration. The record extends back to nearly 50,000 years ago and thus represents one of the earliest known records. Nuts and yams were widely consumed, and the variety of stone tools discovered implies that the early humans may have cleared forest patches to promote the growth of useful plants.
Forager-farmer transitions from East Asia to Sahul: Regional and Global Perspectives
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
Neolithic human impact on the landscapes of North-East Hungary inferred from pollen and settlement records
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-02-2012
The animate house, the institutionalization of the household in Neolithic central Anatolia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-09-2016
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Cooperative Deployment of a Generalized, Archaeology-Specific Field Data Collection System
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2016
Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-03-2019
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-019-09209-7
Abstract: Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunter-gatherer and from seven Anatolian and Levantine early farmers. We find high genetic continuity (~80–90%) between the hunter-gatherers and early farmers of Anatolia and detect two distinct incoming ancestries: an early Iranian/Caucasus related one and a later one linked to the ancient Levant. Finally, we observe a genetic link between southern Europe and the Near East predating 15,000 years ago. Our results suggest a limited role of human migration in the emergence of agriculture in central Anatolia.
Pleistocene occupation of New Guinea's highland and subalpine environments
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
Inhibitory neighbor priming effects in eye movements during reading
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2009
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.1.43
The Emo site (OAC), Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea: Resolving long-standing questions of antiquity and implications for the history of the ancestral Hiri maritime trade
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Impact of Human Colonization on the Landscape: A View from the Western Pacific
Publisher: Pacific Science
Date: 10-2009
DOI: 10.2984/049.063.0412
Archaeobotany in Australia and New Guinea: Practice, potential and prospects
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
We don’t have as much agency as you think
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
Macro-botanical evidence for plant use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük south-central Anatolia, Turkey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2002
Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Catalhoyuk, central Anatolia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1017/S0066154617000072
Abstract: Intensive archaeobotanical investigations at Çatalhöyük have created a unique opportunity to explore change and continuity in plant use through the ca 1,500-year Neolithic to early Chalcolithic sequence of an early established farming community. The combination of crops and herd animals in the earliest (Aceramic) part of the sequence reflects a distinct and erse central Anatolian ‘package’ at the end of the eighth millennium cal. BC. Here we report evidence for near continual adjustment of cropping regimes through time at Çatalhöyük, featuring recruitment of minor crops or crop contaminants to become major staples. We use panarchy theory to frame an understanding of Çatalhöyük's long-term sustainability, arguing that its resilience was a function of three key factors: its erse initial crop spectrum, which acted as an archive for later innovations its modular social structure, enabling small-scale experimentation and innovation in cropping at the household level and its agglomerated social morphology, allowing successful developments to be scaled up across the wider community. This case study in long-term sustainability through flexible, changeable cropping strategies is significant not only for understanding so-called boom and bust cycles elsewhere but also for informing wider agro-ecological understanding of sustainable development in central Anatolia and beyond.
Early Ceramics in Anatolia: Implications for the Production and Use of the Earliest Pottery. The Evidence from Boncuklu Höyük
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 18-01-2017
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774316000767
Abstract: Fragments of possible fired clay found at Boncuklu Höyük, central Turkey, appear to derive from rudimentary vessels, despite the later ninth- and early eighth-millennium cal. bc and thus ‘Aceramic’ dates for the site. This paper will examine the evidence for such fired clay vessels at Boncuklu and consider their implications as ex les of some of the earliest pottery in Anatolia. The discussion will examine contextual evidence for the role of these fragments and consider their relative rarity at the site and the implications for the marked widespread adoption of pottery in southwest Asia c. 7000–6700 cal. bc .
Settlement Reorganisation and the Rebirth of the Ottoman Empire: Bayesian Modelling Narrows Dates for Post-Medieval Occupation at Kaman-Kalehöyük, Kırşehir Province, Turkey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-09-2016
Re-Dating Mid-Holocene Betelnut (Areca Catechu L.) and Other Plant Use at Dongan, Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200035153
Abstract: Direct accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating of anaerobically preserved plant remains from the Dongan site in New Guinea, combined with assessment of preservation condition, confirms earlier doubts about the antiquity of betelnut ( Areca catechu L.) found at the site. A possible sago leaf fragment is also identified as a modern contaminant. The mid-Holocene age of other fruit and nut remains is verified using these methods. The utility of AMS dating in combination with detailed archaeobotanical assessment is demonstrated, thus improving chronometric hygiene and with it knowledge of past plant use in Oceania.
Debating Lapita: Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 11-12-2019
DOI: 10.22459/TA52.2019
The Preservation and Interpretation of δ 34 S Values in Charred Archaeobotanical Remains
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-05-2018
DOI: 10.1111/ARCM.12388
Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-2017
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE22968
Abstract: The time of arrival of people in Australia is an unresolved question. It is relevant to debates about when modern humans first dispersed out of Africa and when their descendants incorporated genetic material from Neanderthals, Denisovans and possibly other hominins. Humans have also been implicated in the extinction of Australia's megafauna. Here we report the results of new excavations conducted at Madjedbebe, a rock shelter in northern Australia. Artefacts in primary depositional context are concentrated in three dense bands, with the stratigraphic integrity of the deposit demonstrated by artefact refits and by optical dating and other analyses of the sediments. Human occupation began around 65,000 years ago, with a distinctive stone tool assemblage including grinding stones, ground ochres, reflective additives and ground-edge hatchet heads. This evidence sets a new minimum age for the arrival of humans in Australia, the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, and the subsequent interactions of modern humans with Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 30-08-2019
Abstract: Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 to 8000 years ago. Through a synthetic collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled a comprehensive picture of the trajectory of human land use worldwide during the Holocene (see the Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed the face of Earth earlier and to a greater extent than has been widely appreciated, a transformation that was essentially global by 3000 years before the present. Science , this issue p. 897 see also p. 865
Agricultural origins on the Anatolian plateau
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 19-03-2018
Abstract: We demonstrate that the initial spread of farming outside of the area of its first appearance in the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, into Central Anatolia, involved adoption of cultivars by indigenous foragers and contemporary experimentation in animal herding of local species. This represents a rare clear-cut instance of forager adoption and sustained low-level food production. We have also demonstrated that farming uptake was not uniform, with some forager communities rejecting it despite proximity to early farming communities. We also show that adoption of small-scale cultivation could still have significant social consequences for the communities concerned. The evidence suggests forager adoption of cultivation and initiation of herding was not necessarily motivated by simple economic concerns of increasing levels of food production and security.
Seeds From The Slums: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Mountain Street, Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2007
A history of agricultural production at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2005
Ceremonial plant consumption at Middle Bronze Age Büklükale, Kırıkkale Province, central Turkey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-11-2019
Private pantries and celebrated surplus: storing and sharing food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2009
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00098896
Abstract: In the Neolithic megasite at Çatalhöyük families lived side by side in conjoined dwellings, like a pueblo. It can be assumed that people were always in and out of each others' houses – in this case via the roof. Social mechanisms were needed to make all this run smoothly, and in a tour-de-force of botanical, faunal and spatial analysis the authors show how it worked. Families stored their own produce of grain, fruit, nuts and condiments in special bins deep inside the house, but displayed the heads and horns of aurochs near the entrance. While the latter had a religious overtone they also remembered feasts, episodes of sharing that mitigated the provocations of a full larder.
Early Human Occupation of Australia’s Eastern Seaboard
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 25-04-2023
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-2843483/V1
Abstract: The authors have requested that this preprint be removed from Research Square.
Poromoi Tamu and the Case of the Drowning Village: History, Lost Places and the Stories We Tell
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-04-2012
An archaeobotanical perspective on Holocene plant-use practices in lowland northern New Guinea
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2005
The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
New Directions in Archaeological Science
Publisher: ANU Press
Date: 02-2009
Archaeobotanical evidence for trade in hazelnut (Corylus sp.) at Middle Bronze Age Kültepe (c. 1950–1830 b.c.), Kayseri Province, Turkey
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-06-2013
Explaining changing patterns of wood presence across the Bronze and Iron Age at Kaman-Kalehöyük, central Anatolia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Woodland modification in Bronze and Iron Age central Anatolia: an anthracological signature for the Hittite state?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
Settlement change on the western Konya Plain: refining Neolithic and Chalcolithic chronologies at Canhasan, Turkey
Publisher: Antiquity Publications
Date: 17-03-2020
DOI: 10.15184/AQY.2020.13
Historicising the present: Late Holocene emergence of a rainforest hunting camp, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-01-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-020-01379-8
Abstract: Little is known about the Pleistocene climatic context of northern Australia at the time of early human settlement. Here we generate a palaeoprecipitation proxy using stable carbon isotope analysis of modern and archaeological pandanus nutshell from Madjedbebe, Australia’s oldest known archaeological site. We document fluctuations in precipitation over the last 65,000 years and identify periods of lower precipitation during the penultimate and last glacial stages, Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 2. However, the lowest effective annual precipitation is recorded at the present time. Periods of lower precipitation, including the earliest phase of occupation, correspond with peaks in exotic stone raw materials and artefact discard at the site. This pattern is interpreted as suggesting increased group mobility and intensified use of the region during drier periods.
Interceding role of institutional extension services on the livelihood impacts of drought tolerant maize technology adoption in Zimbabwe
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
OJP, a terminal pleistocene archaeological site from the gulf province lowlands, papua new guinea
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2007
9th millennium plant subsistence in the central Anatolian highlands: new evidence from Pınarbaşı, Karaman Province, central Anatolia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
Technical Notes on the Preparation of Leaf and Epidermis Specimens for Reference Collections and Archaeobotanical Investigations
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Date: 10-2003
Reduction intensity of backed blades: Blank consumption, regularity and efficiency at the early Neolithic site of Boncuklu, Turkey
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Comparing pollen and archaeobotanical data for Chalcolithic cereal agriculture at Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
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