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0000-0002-3308-9983
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University of Waikato
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Heritage and Cultural Conservation | Quaternary Environments | Archaeology | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology | Geochronology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Understanding Australia's Past | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Mining and Extraction of Aluminium Ores | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability |
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Publications
Kumukumu 1, a hilltop site in the Aird Hills: Implications for occupational trends and dynamics in the Kikori River delta, south coast of Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-2020
DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2020.59
Abstract: Early researchers of radiocarbon levels in Southern Hemisphere tree rings identified a variable North-South hemispheric offset, necessitating construction of a separate radiocarbon calibration curve for the South. We present here SHCal20, a revised calibration curve from 0–55,000 cal BP, based upon SHCal13 and fortified by the addition of 14 new tree-ring data sets in the 2140–0, 3520–3453, 3608–3590 and 13,140–11,375 cal BP time intervals. We detail the statistical approaches used for curve construction and present recommendations for the use of the Northern Hemisphere curve (IntCal20), the Southern Hemisphere curve (SHCal20) and suggest where application of an equal mixture of the curves might be more appropriate. Using our Bayesian spline with errors-in-variables methodology, and based upon a comparison of Southern Hemisphere tree-ring data compared with contemporaneous Northern Hemisphere data, we estimate the mean Southern Hemisphere offset to be 36 ± 27 14 C yrs older.
Testing the human factor: radiocarbon dating the first peoples of the South Pacific
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Late survival of megafauna refuted for Cloggs Cave, SE Australia: Implications for the Australian Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction debate
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
The discovery of New Zealand's oldest shipwreck - possible evidence of further Dutch exploration of the South Pacific
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Improving the chronological framework for Laugerie-Haute Ouest (Dordogne, France)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Community research in a public place: Wangangarra 1 rockshelter, Mitchell River National Park, East Gippsland (Australia)
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2020
Radiocarbon dating of burials from the Teouma Lapita cemetery, Efate, Vanuatu
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef
Publisher: James Cook University
Date: 13-12-2020
DOI: 10.25120/QAR.23.2020.3778
Abstract: Archaeological records documenting the timing and use of northern Great Barrier Reef offshore islands by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout the Holocene are limited when compared to the central and southern extents of the region. Excavations on Lizard Island, located 33 km from Cape Flattery on the mainland, provide high resolution evidence for periodic, yet sustained offshore island use over the past 4000 years, with focused exploitation of erse marine resources and manufacture of quartz artefacts. An increase in island use occurs from around 2250 years ago, at a time when a hiatus or reduction in offshore island occupation has been documented for other Great Barrier Reef islands, but concurrent with demographic expansion across Torres Strait to the north. Archaeological evidence from Lizard Island provides a previously undocumented occupation pattern associated with Great Barrier Reef late Holocene island use. We suggest this trajectory of Lizard Island occupation was underwritten by its place within the Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere, which may highlight its significance both locally and regionally across this vast seascape.
A new chronology for the Māori settlement of Aotearoa (NZ) and the potential role of climate change in demographic developments
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 07-11-2022
Abstract: Understanding the role of climate change, resource availability, and population growth in human mobility remains critically important in anthropology. Researching linkages between climate and demographic changes during the short settlement history of Aotearoa (New Zealand) requires temporal precision equivalent to the period of a single generation. However, current modeling approaches frequently use small terrestrial radiocarbon datasets, a practice that obscures past Māori population patterns and their connection to changing climate. Our systematic analysis of terrestrial and marine 14 C ages has enabled robust assessments of the largest dataset yet collated from island contexts. This analysis has been made possible by the recent development of a temporal marine correction for southern Pacific waters, and our findings show the shortcomings of previous models. We demonstrate that human settlement in the mid to late 13th century AD is unambiguous. We highlight initial (AD 1250 to 1275) settlement in the North Island. The South Island was reached a decade later (AD 1280 to 1295), where the hunting of giant flightless moa commenced (AD 1300 to 1415), and the population grew rapidly. Population growth leveled off around AD 1340 and declined between AD 1380 and 1420, synchronous with the onset of the Little Ice Age and moa loss as an essential food source. The population continued to grow in the more economically stable north, where conditions for horticulture were optimal. The enhanced precision of this research afforded by the robust analysis of marine dates opens up unique opportunities to investigate interconnectivity in Polynesia and inform the patterns seen in other island contexts.
The Origins of Ground-edge Axes: New Findings from Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land (Australia) and Global Implications for the Evolution of Fully Modern Humans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774312000017
Abstract: The grinding of stone to make sharp cutting edges did not evolve with the emergence of biologically modern humans in Africa, but late in the Pleistocene at the completion or nearcompletion of the Out-of-Africa 2 migration. Here we discuss the earliest securely-dated fragment of ground-edge axe from Australia, dated at 35,500 cal. bp, an age slightly older or comparable to the earliest ages for edge-grinding from the Pacific Ocean's western seaboard. In this region ground-edge axes did not evolve with the emergence of agriculture, nor for the clearance of forests, but, rather, as socially mediated technology, part of the development of symbolic storage that is the hallmark of the evolution of cognitively modern humans at the geographical end, during, or following, Out-of-Africa 2.
Agila and the reanimation of seafaring on the south coast of Papua New Guinea after 770 cal BP
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2023
Mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation of offshore islands in northern Australia? A reassessment of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
Distribution and extirpation of pigs in P acific I slands: a case study from P alau
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-06-2013
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5012
Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-02-2018
Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-06-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41559-022-01775-2
Abstract: Previous research indicates that human genetic ersity in Wallacea—islands in present-day Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste that were never part of the Sunda or Sahul continental shelves—has been shaped by complex interactions between migrating Austronesian farmers and indigenous hunter–gatherer communities. Yet, inferences based on present-day groups proved insufficient to disentangle this region’s demographic movements and admixture timings. Here, we investigate the spatio-temporal patterns of variation in Wallacea based on genome-wide data from 16 ancient in iduals (2600–250 years BP) from the North Moluccas, Sulawesi and East Nusa Tenggara. While ancestry in the northern islands primarily reflects contact between Austronesian- and Papuan-related groups, ancestry in the southern islands reveals additional contributions from Mainland Southeast Asia that seem to predate the arrival of Austronesians. Admixture time estimates further support multiple and/or continuous admixture involving Papuan- and Asian-related groups throughout Wallacea. Our results clarify previously debated times of admixture and suggest that the Neolithic dispersals into Island Southeast Asia are associated with the spread of multiple genetic ancestries.
Colonisation of Remote Oceania: New dates for the Bapot-1 site in the Mariana Islands
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-10-2017
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5108
Extended residence times for foraminifera in a marine-influenced terrestrial archaeological deposit and implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2016
A preliminary redating of the Holocene Roonka burials, south-eastern Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-02-2017
DOI: 10.1002/ARCO.5126
Temporal variability in shell mound formation at Albatross Bay, northern Australia
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 30-08-2017
High-resolution radiocarbon dating of marine materials in archaeological contexts: Radiocarbon marine reservoir variability between Anadara, Gafrarium, Batissa, Polymesoda spp. and Echinoidea at Caution Bay, Southern Coastal Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-11-2013
AUSTRALIAN MARINE RADIOCARBON RESERVOIR EFFECTS: ΔR ATLAS AND ΔR CALCULATOR FOR AUSTRALIAN MAINLAND COASTS AND NEAR-SHORE ISLANDS
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 31-10-2023
DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2023.95
Rock art and frontier conflict in Southeast Asia: Insights from direct radiocarbon ages for the large human figures of Gua Sireh, Sarawak
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 23-08-2023
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0288902
Abstract: Gua Sireh, located in western Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo), is known for its rock art. The cave houses hundreds of charcoal drawings depicting people, often with headdresses, knives and other accoutrements. Here, we present direct radiocarbon dates and pigment characterizations from charcoal drawings of two large ( cm), unique Gua Sireh human figures (anthropomorphs). To our knowledge, these are the first chronometric ages generated for Malaysian rock art, providing insights into the social contexts of art production, as well as the opportunities and challenges of dating rock art associated with the Malay/Austronesian diasporas in Southeast Asia more generally. Previous archaeological excavations revealed that people occupied Gua Sireh from around 20,000 years ago to as recently as AD 1900. The site is within Bidayuh territory, and these local Indigenous peoples recall the cave’s use as a refuge during territorial violence in the early 1800s. The age of the drawings, dated between 280 and 120 cal BP (AD 1670 to 1830), corresponds with a period of increasing conflict when the Malay elites controlling the region exacted heavy tolls on the local hill tribes. We discuss rock art production at Gua Sireh in this context of frontier conflict and Bidayuh resistance.
Changing ceramic traditions at Agila ancestral village, Hood Bay, Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
The chronology of occupation at Teouma, Vanuatu: Use of a modified chronometric hygiene protocol and Bayesian modeling to evaluate midden remains
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Dating South Island Māori rock art: Pigment and pitfalls
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-10-2016
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE19844
Environmental context for late Holocene human occupation of the South Wellesley Archipelago, Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2015
How old are Australia's pictographs? A review of rock art dating
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
50 years and worlds apart: Rethinking the Holocene occupation of Cloggs Cave (East Gippsland, SE Australia) five decades after its initial archaeological excavation and in light of GunaiKurnai world views
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Interpreting the mammal deposits of Cloggs Cave (SE Australia), GunaiKurnai Aboriginal Country, through community-led partnership research
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2022
DOI: 10.1002/PAN3.10410
Abstract: Palaeontological animal bone deposits are rarely investigated through research partnerships where the local First Nations communities have a defining hand in both the research questions asked and the research processes. Here we report research undertaken through such a partnership approach at the iconic archaeological site of Cloggs Cave (GunaiKurnai Country, East Gippsland), in the southern foothills of SE Australia's Great Dividing Range. A new excavation was combined with detailed chronometric dating, high‐resolution 3D mapping and geomorphological studies. This allowed interpretation of a sequence of stratigraphic layers spanning from a lowermost excavated mixed layer dated to between 25,640 and 48,470 cal BP, to a dense set of uppermost, ash layers dated to between 1460 and 3360 cal BP. This long and well‐dated chronostratigraphic sequence enabled temporal trends in the abundant small mammal remains to be examined. The fossil assemblage consists of at least 31 taxa of mammals which change in proportions through time. Despite clear evidence that the Old Ancestors repeatedly carried vegetation into the cave to fuel cool fires (no visible vegetation grows in Cloggs Cave), we observed little to no evidence of cooking fires or calcined bone, suggesting that people had little involvement with the accumulation of the faunal remains. Small mammal bones were most likely deposited in the cave by large disc‐faced owls, Tyto novaehollandae (Masked Owl) or Tyto tenebricosa (Sooty Owl). Despite being well dated and largely undisturbed, the Cloggs Cave assemblage does not appear to track known Late Quaternary environmental change. Instead, the complex geomorphology of the area fostered a vegetation mosaic that supported mammals with ergent habitat preferences. The faunal deposit suggests a local ancestral landscape characterised by a resilient mosaic of habitats that persisted over thousands of years, signalling that the Old Ancestors burned landscape fires to encourage and manage patches of different vegetation types and ages within and through periods of climate change. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
45,610–52,160 years of site and landscape occupation at Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land plateau (northern Australia)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
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Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP110100180
Start Date: 04-2011
End Date: 12-2017
Amount: $420,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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