[HTML][HTML] Early Aboriginal pottery production and offshore island occupation on Jiigurru (Lizard Island group), Great Barrier Reef, Australia

S Ulm, IJ McNiven, GR Summerhayes, P Wu… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aboriginal manufacture and use of pottery was unknown in Australia prior to European
settlement, despite well-known ceramic-making traditions in southern Papua New Guinea …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding climate resilience in Scandinavia during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

MME Bunbury, KI Austvoll, EK Jørgensen… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mid and late-Holocene climate shifts are considered to have profoundly shaped
demographic developments and adaptive responses of communities globally. Yet their …

[HTML][HTML] Regional implementation of coastal erosion hazard zones for archaeological applications

BD Jones, B Collings, ME Dickson, M Ford… - Journal of Cultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coastal archaeological heritage is in danger of being lost to coastal erosion, the risk of
which is amplified by accelerating sea-level rise (SLR). In Aotearoa/New Zealand, coastal …

Subsistence and population development from the Middle Neolithic B (2800–2350 BCE) to the Late Neolithic (2350–1700 BCE) in Southern Scandinavia

J Winther Johannsen, J Laabs, MME Bunbury… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The present study aims to explore the hypothesis of a link between a population increase
derived from intensified food production and the development from the widespread cultural …

Braiding archaeology, geomorphology and indigenous knowledge to improve the understanding of local-scale coastal change

BD Jones, ME Dickson, M Ford, D Hikuroa… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2025 - cambridge.org
Coastal landforms and associated archaeological records are at risk of erosion from a
combination of rising sea levels and increasingly frequent high-intensity storms. Improved …

Ancient mitochondrial genomes unveil the origins and evolutionary history of New Zealand's enigmatic takahē and moho

AJF Verry, E Mas‐Carrió, GC Gibb, L Dutoit… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many avian species endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand were driven to extinction or reduced
to relict populations following successive waves of human arrival, due to hunting, habitat …

The Late Intermediate Period in the south-central Andes (AD 1000–1450): Key problems in chronology

E Arkush, WC McCool, RD Smith - Quaternary International, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Intermediate Period (LIP, cal AD 1000–1450) in the central Andes is
defined as a hiatus after the collapse of Tiwanaku and Wari, expansive state polities of the …

New dog parasite (Toxocara canis) discoveries at Melanesian and Polynesian sites in tropical Remote Oceania

M Horrocks, S Bedford, J Flexner, F Valentin… - Pacific Science, 2024 - BioOne
Little is known of helminth parasites of tropical Remote Oceania, in either archaeological or
modern contexts. This study presents a parasitological analysis of soil samples from Lapita …

Sedimentary biomarkers of human presence and taro cultivation reveal early horticulture in Remote Oceania

G Camperio, SN Ladd, M Prebble, R Lloren… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Remote Oceania was among the last places settled by humans. However, the timing of initial
human settlements and the early introduction of horticulture remain debated. We retrieved a …

A new parasite discovery in Micronesia: eggs of the nematode Toxocara canis at archaeological sites on Ebon Atoll, Marshall Islands extend the known dog presence …

M Horrocks, MI Weisler, Q Hua… - Archaeology in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known of helminth parasites in Micronesia in archaeological contexts. This study
presents a parasitological analysis of soil and sediment samples from Ebon Atoll in the …