Publications and Lectures
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Peer-Reviewed Publications
2024. Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55,000–50,000 years ago. Antiquity. https://doi:10.15184/aqy.2024.83
2023. Shells and Fire-Indicators and Effects. In Fires in GunaiKurnai Country: Landscape Fires and their Impacts on Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Places and Artefacts in Southeastern Australia. Archeopress.
2023. Thermal influences on archaeological shell: An experimental study from the tropical Indo-Pacific. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 30 (2):536-564. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09568-4
2022. Re-evaluating the evidence for late-surviving megafauna at Nombe rockshelter in the New Guinea highlands. Archaeology in Oceania. https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5274
2022. Peering into the unseen: novel methods in identifying shell taxa from archaeological micro-fragments in Pondoland, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105667
2021. Zooarchaeology through the lens of collagen fingerprinting at Denisova Cave. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94731-2
2020. Coastal occupation and foraging during the Last Glacial Maximum and Early Holocene at Waterfall Bluff, eastern Pondoland, South African. Quaternary Research. https://doi:10.1017/qua.2020.26
2019. From Gathering to Discard and Beyond: Ethnoarchaeological studies on shellfishing practices in the Solomon Islands. In Archaeologies of Island Melanesia: Current Approaches to landscapes, exchange and practice.
2019. Observations on the Northern Moluccan excavated animal bone and shell collections. In The Spice Islands in Prehistory: Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia
2014. At the Margins: Archaeological Evidence of Macassan Activities in the South Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria. Australasian Historical Archaeology.
Lectures/Presentations/Media
April 2024, “From reef to rainforest: Biomolecular archaeology in the Pacific” at The Field Museum, Chicago, USA
January 2024, “Hunting in the New Guinea Highlands: Using biomolecular methods to understand subsistence strategies in tropical environments” at Texas A&M, College Station, USA
November 2023, “Hunting in the New Guinea Highlands: Using biomolecular methods to understand subsistence strategies in tropical environments” at Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA
August 2023, “Legacy collections from the New Guinea Highlands: Biomolecular approaches to understanding early subsistence strategies in tropical island environments” at the International Conference for Archaeozoology, Cairns, Australia
September 2022, “Testing ancient collagen preservation in New Guinea sites: Using ZooMS to search for Denisovan ancestors in Sahul” at the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Chiang Mai, Thailand
January 2022, “Searching for our human ancestors: Ancient bones in the rainforest” at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
