Selected Research Publications

Sourcing stone and ochre artefacts: a review of why it matters in Australia (and beyond). In C. A. Speer, G. Barrientos and R. Parish (eds), Current studies in lithic sourcing and identification. Springer Press.

Extracting New Information from Old Stones: An Analysis of Three Quarries in the Semi-Arid Pilbara Region, Northwest Australia. Australian Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2022.2098552

Framing Australian Pleistocene coastal occupation and archaeology. Quaternary Science Reviews 292, 107706. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107706

The pilot application of geochemical sourcing to an inland Pilbara archaeological landscape in north-western Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38: 103104. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103104

Local lithic landscapes and local source complexity: Developing a new database for geological sourcing of archaeological stone artefacts in North-Western Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 24, 539 – 555. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.012

Settling the West: 50 000 years in a changing land. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, No. 102, pp. 30-44.

Minjiwarra: archaeological evidence of human occupation of Australia’s northern Kimberley by 50,000 BP. Australian Archaeology 85, 115 – 125. DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2019.1650479

Coastal Occupation before the ‘Big Swamp’: Results from Excavations at John Wayne Country Rockshelter on Barrow Island. Archaeology in Oceania 53, 163 – 178. Archaeology in Oceania top cited article: 2018 – 2019. DOI: 10.1002/arco.5164

'Murujuga Rockshelter: First Evidence for Pleistocene Occupation on the Burrup Peninsula'. Quaternary Science Review. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.002

Testing predictions for symmetry, variability and chronology of backed artefact production in Australia's Western Desert, Archaeology in Oceania. DOI: 10.1002/arco.5162

Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert. PLOS ONE, Volume 13, no. 9. DOI: 10.371/journal.pone.0202.511

'What Happened after the Last Glacial Maximum? Transitions in site use on an arid inland island in north western Australia', Archaeology in Oceania. DOI: 10.1002/arco.5155

Reconceptualising Last Glacial Maximum discontinuities: A case stuDOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2016.07.016dy from the maritime deserts of north-western Australia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 46, 82 – 91. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2016.07.016

Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 168, 19 – 29. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.05.002

An experimental approach to distinguishing different stone artefact transport patterns from debitage assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 65, 44 – 56. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.10.012

The influence of raw material size on stone artefact assemblage formation: An example from Bone Cave, South-Western Tasmania. Quaternary International 422, 29 – 43. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.03.013

Don’t forget the fish – towards an archaeology of the Abydos Plain, Pilbara, Western Australia. Australian Archaeology, Volume 82, Issue 2, pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2017.1399964

Measuring stone artefact transport: The experimental demonstration and archaeological application of a new method to a prehistoric adze workshop, southern Cook Islands. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, 512 – 523. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.009

'A Tale of Three Caves: New Dates for Pleistocene Occupation in The Inland Pilbara', Australian Archaeology, vol. 79, pp. 167-178. DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2014.116820333

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